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Settling in and Some Advice for Writers

It's our 11th anniversary and we're surrounded by boxes and all sorts of detritus, but the move went well and this is indeed a great location. It's also a huge frickin' house, much bigger feeling now that we're in it. I can't imagine how people can live in monster mansions. This place is on the order of 1500 square feet, and anything larger would certainly have to be designed a little tighter on the floor plan.

Anyhow, as I gird my loins for another run at the mess in the garage, here's a great piece of advice for writers from the blog Tricks of the Trade:

If you take your laptop with you everywhere and use it constantly, you're liable to get a build-up of hairs, crumbs, and other detritus in the keyboard. To clean them out, take a Post-It note (the new 'super sticky' kind especially good for this) and run the adhesive edge through the cracks in the keys. Doing this is also a great way to stall when you can't think of what to write next.