more thoughts

I spent a lot of time last night before bed re-reading my 2006 NaNo entry, the one featuring rp characters, and laughing aloud a lot. It made me wonder, though; they say only a fool laughs at his own jokes (I do sometimes), does that apply to a writer and their own writing? I don't know, and don't really care, because I thoroughly enjoyed it and am going to read the rest of it after work today. :D It's a horrible story, I know, but I just love the characters so much and it's nice to revisit how I used to write them back then.

I've also been thinking about re-reading the other NaNo entries, the original ones that I got to 50k and just dumped, but I dunno. That may be more of a headache than it's worth, since I have no idea where I was going with them, but maybe that's a good thing? Who knows, I might be able to salvage something from them, and it can't hurt to look, right? We'll see, I suppose.

Writer's Block: Talk like a pirate day!

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Apologies if I mess this joke up. I read it online somewhere years ago and can't take credit for it, but it's become one of my all-time favourite jokes and I can't resist sharing it on today of all days. :D

A pirate walks awkwardly into a bar, a large, circular wheel bulging out of his pants. He waddles over to the counter and struggles into his a seat, cursing all the while, and orders a beer.

The bartender brings him his drink and sees what looks like a steering wheel poking out of the pirate's trousers. He doesn't say anything at first but as the pirate sits there, fidgeting and fussing, curiosity finally gets the better of him and he approaches the pirate again.

"Excuse me sir, but is that a steering wheel you've got in your pants?"

The pirate scowled and nodded. "That it is, me matey."

The bartender scratched his head. "It sure looks mighty uncomfortable."

To which the pirate replied "Yarrr, I know, it's drivin' me nuts!"