Word count today: 930

Total word count: 38,622

Yesterday I spent a good chunk of my post-Thanksgiving holiday putting together a home gym that's been languishing in its boxes for over a year. I had bought the floor model of a home gym at a local sporting goods store (way back in October of ought-six). I got it home and had it almost completely assembled when I realized one of the cables was missing. After a couple months of being promised new cables that never arrived, the store offered to swap my incomplete home gym for a brand new one. They also offered to deliver and set it up for free, but when I went back to the store with the pieces of my gym, the manager brought out a big box (I mean REALLY big) and several small ones on a flat cart. I wasn't sure how wild I was about having a couple guys in my basement anyway, so I gladly loaded up the boxes in my van and went home. After I wrestled them down to the basement, I wasn't that keen on setting the thing up. After all, I'd already just assembled and disassembled one. Anyway, I finally got around to putting it together. It went really well (only one major misstep in the assembly process, and that only took a few minutes to fix), but took a long time. I started at around 1:30 PM and finished up at 11 (with a break for dinner). So, no writing yesterday.

I sat down tonight hoping to catch up, but I only got around 900 words cranked out. I'm falling asleep (it might have something to do with staying up until 1 AM). I'll need to write about 1800 words a day for the remainder of this month to hit the goal, but I know I can do it. I'd love to have a big day tomorrow and get 4000 words out, but I don't see how that will be possible.