Book Progress

I'm about 17 pages and 5100 words into my book. As you may have guessed, I'm slacking with my time commitments, but I'm still doing much better than I thought I would be doing. I hope to eclipse the 20 page mark by the end of tonight. If I can do that, I should be over 6000 words. I don't know how long the typical book is, but 6000 words seems pretty long, although not when I think of it in the context of 20 pages. A 20 page book really isn't worth too much. We'll see how this goes though. Hopefully I can get to 100 pages. I feel like I have a lot to write about, but 100 pages is pretty sick.

Today I got to stay home from work. We had a snow day. There was about 2-3 inches, although if this was New York, they wouldn't have sniffed twice before heading on to work and school. Tomorrow, Jill already knows that she has a 2 hour delay. I hope that when I wake up in the morning they'll say that we have a 2 hour delay as well, but I seriously doubt that they'll do that. The only way that they will is if there are icy conditions.

President Obama got sworn in today. It was a huge event. I don't remember how many people attended Bush's ceremonies, but this seemed like there were about a million people in the mall, and countless others on television. We'll see how his presidency goes! Hopefully he can fix the economy!

Alrighty then...I'm off to write!

Here's how crap works

Ok, first an update on my book writing. I worked on it for about 6 hours yesterday. It was great to be able to lay around and just type without anything else to worry about. My goal is to work on it for about an hour on weekdays and then a to be determined goal on the weekend. Ok, that sounded totally lame. I need to commit to something.

3 hours on the weekend. That's reasonable. I mean, how the heck is this book going to get written if I don't spend time doing it.

So far, I'm up to 10 pages and about 2500 words. That's not too bad.

I went back to work today. I had a week off after my turbinate surgery. I feel so weird saying that because a couple of months ago, I didn't even know what a friggin' turbinate was. Anyway, I walk in and Obnoxious coworker (Obco for short) decides to discuss the daily work plan with me before I can even get my computer fired up. Apparently, I'm no longer capable of setting a plan for myself. I need an Obco to do it for me. How considerate. Well, there is a whole mound of work that Laco (Lazy coworker) didn't get finished. This crap was due today, but we've known about it for months. Thanks for saving it up for me! That was the best ever!

Back to the title of the blog -
Here's how crap works -
How I didn't see this coming is like Charlie Brown diving in the air as Lucy pulls the football away. Apparently at my work, the way CRAP works is that once you work as hard as you can to get your work done quickly, you get a pat on the back congratulating you on being such a good worker.....
Yea....not so much....
That's the way it should work, but the way it really works is that once you finish your mound of work, Obco and Laco see this as a great opportunity to dump their work off on you. What a treat! I was so honored. Makes me want to finish twice as quick next time so that all the Obcos and Lacos at work can dump their crap off on me. What a friggin' waste....how people get away with this hot garbage is beyond me.....

A work in progress for Leardini

So, I've decided to write a book. I've been toying with the idea for awhile, but I finally think that I have a workable outline. I'll keep my progress here. I notice that a lot of people use their blogs to chart progress on whatever they're doing, so maybe that will be a good way for me to keep track of how long it takes me to complete this.

Does anyone know how to get a book published? I'm not sure I know how to go about this once I get it written and edited. I'd appreciate it if anyone out there could comment with some suggestions.

On another note, surgery 2009 went well. Dr. Clyne did such an awesome job on me! I can breathe and basically have no pain! If I would have known that most people were breathing like I am now, I would have demanded surgery a long time ago. To illustrate, I feel like I'm breathing through a tunnel now compared to breathing through a straw before.

Anyone see Wake take care of Carolina last night? 92-89 - It was even that close though. Carolina is a good team, but when Hansbrough has an off night, it looks like they are all out of sorts. Not sure how good the Demon Deacons are, but I'll bet not too many people had them at 14-0 before the season began. Heck, not too many people had them 14-0 before this game.

St. Bonaventure's basketball team is back on the map. Does anyone care? Probably not. They're 10-5 (1-1), which is much better than at anytime in the past 6 or 7 years. They get St. Joseph's tomorrow, so we'll see how that goes. If they win that game, then maybe they're a contender for the NIT.

Jets Coaching Situation and more

The Jets are looking for a new coach now. Mangini was fired on Monday and that was a move that needed to be made. There are a lot of people blaming this move on Favre, and certainly he is not without blame, but come on. Mangini made so many questionable decisions that it was blatently obvious that he had to go. We won at least 2 games in spite of him. The first Buffalo game, we stopped the Bills as they were driving. Fourth down, right? Not so fast! There is a holding penalty on the play and Mangini accepts the penalty. Buffalo goes on to get a first down and would have scored if it wasn't for their own ineptitude. Perhaps they were trying to outdue Mangini.



On that note, we should have lost the second Buffalo game if it wasn't for Jauron having a brain cramp and deciding to throw a rollout pass when they could have easily run out the clock.



The second example is against the hated Patriots. We were all over them and Mangini decides to go into the prevent for the entire second half. I can't tell you how many times he rushes 3 men and everyone sits back passively. What a joke. Whoever thinks that Matt Cassel is a good quarterback based on that little league defense needs to have their head examined. His throws were late, and behind wide open receivers. Against anything greater than our Pee Wee Defense he would have been average. Heck, Little Sisters of the Poor could have thrown for at least 300 yards against that scheme, if you want to call it that.



So now, all the whiney Jets fans who hated Mangini down the stretch and began calling for his job last year, feel that he should keep his job because Brett Favre is the problem. Brett was a problem, but he wasn't the one making Matt Cassel, Shaun Hill, Jamarcus Russell, Tyler Thigpen, and Ryan Fitzpatrick look like the second coming of Unitas. Our defense couldn't stop anyone and they couldn't make the adjustments once they got torched. That's neither here nor there though. The Jets fans are already posturing by saying that they don't want Cowher or that we shouldn't have fired Mangini. They're insufferable. No matter what decision the Jets make, it's wrong in their eyes. Now, the owner is dysfunctional, according to this knowledgable fan base. They'll probably blame their pathetic lives on him, also.