<p>Vacation was wonderful, even with the rain and winds that come with hurricanes/tropical storms.&#0160; We did get to explore a bit of Bermuda, and I have to say that Bermudians are some of the classiest people I have ever met.</p>

<p>Then again, I never ran into Ross Perot or Catherine Zeta-Jones.</p>

<p>We did spent a lot of time in the resort so we befriended a lot of the staff, which came in handy at cocktail hour.&#0160; I don&#39;t even know how much champagne I had our last night there, but I&#39;m happy to report that it was yummy.</p>

<p>...<br />(Imagine some sort of segue here)<br />...</p>

<p>November is a huge month in the online world.&#0160; You may remember that last year I participated in <a href="http://diary.blogs.com/the_diary_of_a_reluctant_/2006/10/winner_back_fro.html">NaNoWriMo</a> and though I didn&#39;t end up with a 50,000 word Great American Novel I did end up with 16,035 words that sometimes don&#39;t make me want to stab my eyeballs with a sharp pencil.&#0160; But, yes, most of the time it was bad - spectacularly bad.&#0160; I guess that means I failed.&#0160; But I did learn a lesson about being realistic about how much I can accomplish in a day, and 1,700 words of fiction is not it.</p>

<p>So this year, I&#39;ve decided to leave <a href="http://www.nanowrimo.org/">NaNoWriMo</a> to the truly dedicated.&#0160; I flirted with the idea of doing <a href="http://www.nablopomo.com/">NaBloPoMo</a>--but let&#39;s face it, I&#39;ll never post every day and I&#39;ve decided to stay away from the computer on the weekends.&#0160; &#0160;So that leaves me with the <a href="http://www.flickr.com/groups/nobloshoemo/pool/">NoBloShoeMo</a> Flickr pool.&#0160; Thirty days of shoes?&#0160; I can do that!</p>

<p>My first contribution?&#0160; My <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/diary/1874176852/in/pool-nobloshoemo/">slippers</a>, because they&#39;re toasty.</p>

<p>(Check out my sidebar for more shoes.)</p>
