Hah! Dunno where that title came from… Anyway, this is the first of a series of posts I will make on my progress in the MidSommer Madness Challenge. I’ve decided to couple that with a review of yWriter4, free novel-writing project-management software. (Note that although I’m using v 4, that’s because 5 won’t work in Wine in Linux. Booh!)
I’m not the only one doing this. As she has time, Michelle Marques has kindly agreed to do something similar with CELTX.
Mwahaha! Little did she know…
Anyway, here we go.
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Got to brag here. The djembe plays extremely well and puts out a LOT of sound. Strangely, my wife isn’t as much into it as I am, and doesn’t want me to play it while we’re watching the tube.
Wimmen!
Guess I’ll just have to use it instead of the alarm clock in the mornings. That oughta be fun!
Is almost done!
Made the top from a planter, tube from a piece of PVC. It has a goatskin drumhead and is tunable. It started out to be a Djembe, but is shaped more like a Doumbek. Even though the head is still wet, it has a discernible difference in tone between the ‘highs’ at the edge and the ‘bass’ in the center. Gotta get lucky sometime!
I’ve been asked to join in an international competition for the arts; including writing, thankfully! Obviously they got my name off some list of wannabe writers somewhere and haven’t actually read my work. That’s okay, though. I’m still gonna enter. I need the ego boost right now.
The Great Exo-Planet Search: Chile’s World’s Space-Observatory Headquarters
Score another for the Atacama Desert! This is where I was born. 
Well, at least it was notable for my parents…
The lunar landscapes of Chile’s Atacama Desert, which stretches for
about 650 miles along the Pacific Ocean to the Peruvian Border, is
generally considered the driest place on earth, wedged between the rain
shadows of the Andes to the east and the coast ranges to the west,
while the cold Humboldt Current off the coast suppresses evaporation
from the ocean. There are places in the Atacama where there has been no
recorded or
observed rainfall in the 400+ years since the Spaniards first arrived.
Forget just who, might have been Tchernabelayo, who wrote a story set in the Atacama. Either he, or Liloo.
Don’t read if you’re thin-skinned… click on the image.
