morning report

There should be mood icons for "ok," "ehh," and "there/here." Where do I go to suggest more entries in the mood icons? I am not quite lethargic, but that seems to be the closest to my current mood...

My head feels a great deal better right now, but I have yet to start the printouts again. Chapter 2200 has 128 pages, of which I have completed 76.

I need to blend the "Millie in the library scene" with something else to make it a longer chapter. Mike Vector is going to find out certain things at Christmastide that I had previously thought he wasn't going to find out. Which of course will make it necessary to rewrite many other scenes, but I think this is truest to what would actually happen. "What is whispered in secret will be shouted on the housetops."

My husband put crankarms onto the tandem that are supposed to match my inseam and femur length better than the standard 175 mm. He measured my inseam with and without my cycling shoes, found formulae on the internet, etc. I suppose to a non-cyclist, it would seem rather strange that 5-15 millimeters variation in crankarm length could make that much of a difference, but I think that it will. "God and the devil are both in the details."

Now I have to get my head into the school and job-hunt modes...

edited to add: printer is still going, and I'm up to Chapter 2400. So my head is not into the school or job-hunt modes yet...

( my LJ sitcom )

MPEP status

Finally ran out of ink, and I am partway through Ch. 2500. I had to go check the USPTO site to make sure that Chapter 2600 does not exist. So now things are quiet, and I get to wait until the rest of the cartridges come in to keep printing out the rest of the MPEP. And I get to start seriously reading now.

Hmm. One of the Walter Mitty fantasies I sometimes entertain is turning Bryan Garner "Mr. Reform-Legal-Writing" loose on the USPTO, whose unofficial motto seems to be "Let the Patentee Overuse the Word 'Said' Until It Rises to the Level of a Shooting Offense." Talk about irresistible force meets immovable object...

ride report

Wow. My new crankarms and new shoes meant that we averaged 15.9 miles/hour, went 31 miles, and maxed out at 35.1 miles/hour. Of course, we were riding with a group for a change, which is always inspiring in terms of increasing our speed. But 15.9 miles/hour as a average...dang. Of course, we are sadly slow compared to the really fast riders in the club, but still, to have improved our speed that much feels very good.

To make this HP-related, I think that riding a bicycle is the closest thing I can get to a broomstick ride. No box around me, the speed depends on the rider and the machine, and you can really scare yourself with how fast you can go on the thing. Hmm, I wonder if there's a wizarding equivalent to the European bicycle races? They can't all play Quidditch, after all...

Edited to add: The writing is not going well at all. My Muse is on vacation so that I will go take care of RL stuff...