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‘Who would win in a Fight’ character vs. bracket on Twitter

Naturally with NaNoWriMo starting TOMORROW, I’m doing anything and everything BUT working on my project (not 100% true, but close). In true time wasting fashion I spent entirely too much time trying to think of ways to really abuse the new Twitter polling. I mean, I could ask stuff like Royals | Mets (as if there’s a choice here) or Trump / Sanders, but no, I want to put it to the test and use it for something truly pointless. EPICALLY pointless, because meta…

Anyhow If you were ever a 14 – 21 year old male, chances are you played the ‘who would win in a fight’ game (if you were, by chance any sort of geek at all, the chances are 100% – you did this don’t claim you didn’t). It’s a time honored tradition where two characters are pitted against each other and one crowned victorious by the person not asking. The rules further require you provide some justification and possibly engage in a lengthy conversation (argument) about how, exactly, the Hulk would pummel/bend Wolverine into a pretzel without being cut to ribbons first. It seemed only fitting that Twitter polling should be put into full use to determine, once and for all, who would win. So, play along, it’ll be fun! I’ll use the tag #whodwin just in case you aren’t following @daveskoster

How’s it work?

I’ve set up a bracket (below), every day I’ll post a bunch of vs. options. Once the entire first round bracket has been voted on and the winner declared for each, I’ll update the bracket and start round two. At the end, we will have the ultimate winner of the who would win game. Sports brackets, stats, and solid nerding. What could possibly go wrong?

I just picked a bunch of random characters who would be fun to pit against each other or imagine being beaten. As this is the prerogative of the questioner, I’m not sorry if I missed your favorite. These have largely been randomly sorted, although there were a few good random pairings, some hand-manipulated ones for theme. May the best character win!

Screenshot from 2015-10-29 20_11_14

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Whole new vistas of procrastination

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So…. About that NaNoWriMo thing. I know I’ve committed to doing it, and I still plan to, but it starts in a mere 2 days time. I have no plot, officially sending me into pantster mode for the project. To make matters worse, I spent today thinking about anything but my NaNo project. On the way into work I started putting together a concept for an off-center novel about super-heros. No problem, I figured, I get a lunch break right? Nope-asked my wife out for coffee instead (which she paid for – how’s that for progressive! 😉 ) Plus I finally got my twitter polling (there are wheels grinding there to, I can tell you!) That ended the lunch-break writing session. No problem. Still got traffic on the way home right? Erm. Nope. Was thinking about another blog post I preemptively sketched out last night and went into a totally unrelated ditch. Now I’ve got another story idea I need to jot down. Plus, I had some seriously solid ideas on how to fix my War of Shadows story.

I think that so far my NaNo experience has been one of the most inspired moments of my life. So much going through my head, it’s just that none of it is going to result in a drafted novel this month. If anything, it’ll just result in an even more bizarre browser history.

What am I going to do now? How am I going to stay focused? To start, I’m going to write down my ideas and force myself to work on the Steampunk project it’s got to get done dammit! That said, it’s already looking like I might go seriously off the rails. Anyhoo. That’s my update for the day, on to that other bit of procrastinating I need to work on.

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My mind is racing – in the wrong direction

Today I had two meetings. The first was in the morning, which was cancelled, leaving myself and the only other available participant with a free hour. We decided to just screw around in my cube to see what we could come up with. It was hands-down the most productive meeting I’ve had for that group. Actually got stuff done – useful stuff. The second meeting was at the end of the day. It was also productive, but in a completely different manner.  I received clear direction and feedback and had most of my questions answered – AKA: I know where I’m going with that project, how to get there and when. PLUS it’s a fun project. I basically get to re-vamp a bunch of reports for a tele-health system in a newer much more wiz-bang and easy to manage technology. 

The problem is that the day is over and I’m still in full-on programmer mode. I can’t seem to clear my mind of plans for how I might structure the new system. Now, this shouldn’t be a problem, it’s nice to be enthusiastic about work, but it is because NaNoWriMo starts in a couple of days and I need to focus on my personal stuff while at home. If that meeting had occurred earlier in the day, perhaps I would have run it out of my system by 4.

Anyhow, here I am, thinking about queries, data organization, documentation, testing, and all that jazz. I just can’t seem to get back into the right frame of mind for writing and plotting. Not only that, I can feel exhaustion setting in. Won’t be long before I’m too tired to really concentrate. That’s my NaNoWriMo update for the day. I’m trying, but I just can’t seem to get there. Perhaps a run, then maybe?