Okay, so it’s not exactly a novel, but why can’t I take part in the fun?
I have been out of gainful employment for three and a half years. I am returning to this web site on a wing and a prayer. If you’re not famniliar with nanowrimo, the game is won by writing 50,000 words of a novel during the month of November.
That’s it.
I’ve decided to adapt the rules to writing 50,000 words of blog during November; the Angina Monologues. That’s 1,667 words per day. I’m also modifying the rules by starting early. 50,000 words on this site by the end of November
And I win.
All this making up the rules by myself out of whole cloth makes me feel like Donald Trump. Even before he won the presidency he reminded me of one one those people you probably remember from high school who would win at monopoly by getting Park Place and Boardwalk from his sister after promising to wash her socks for a week. That’s Donald Trump. No rules, no standards, no shame; so long as he wins. Just like your high school compatriot, except your friend probably didn’t revel in it as much, particularly after those socks.
But I don’t want to complete the whole 50,000 words before the month begins. So, only three days left in October 2019.
I bought this domain 3 years ago with the intent of making it into something, a blog or something, that I could embrace with a level of passion that time has worn down. I called it the Angina Monologues, a reference to the lifestyle medicine that I adopted to stay alive, combined with the aggressive banter that characterizes aging men for whom the future is uncertain at best. In the early 1990’s there was a guy who used to sit on a bench in front of the Hyatt Regency at San Francisco’s Embarcadero IV spewing out vitriol. Every so often you’d recognize a name or mumbled phrase punctuating the drivel. Somethiing along the lines of, “{ mumble} {mumble} Bush {mumble} {mumble} Regan {mumble} {mumble} War on Drugs {mumble}{mumble}, …”
Welcome to my public bench.
Trump{mumble}{mumble} Moscow Mitch{mumble}{mumble} Make America great again{mumble}{mumble}