{"id":7945,"date":"2013-10-10T14:00:32","date_gmt":"2013-10-10T18:00:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/technology-hates-you.com\/lm3m\/?p=7945"},"modified":"2013-10-10T13:16:59","modified_gmt":"2013-10-10T17:16:59","slug":"melanie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/technology-hates-you.com\/lm3m\/7945","title":{"rendered":"Melanie"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My wife had this idea we should do something nice for the kid in her lunch each day. So, I have been writing a story for the kid. Each day\u00a0I put in her lunch the next episode.\u00a0 Sort of a page a day serial kids book.<\/p>\n<p>And it is really fun. I usually take 5-10 min. after breakfast to hand-write the next episode. I write it using a fountain pen on a piece of normal paper, so I have to get it right the first time. I also have to write quickly and clearly, which is a challenge for me. And if I fail, the kid complains (yeah no lack of feedback on this project).<\/p>\n<p>It is a nice start to the morning, clears out all the cobwebs and gets me off to a good start.<\/p>\n<p>The story is a little bit crazy, so far it includes a thunderstorm in the bathroom and an incident where the title character both falls in and pulls the handle, heh. It is morphing, in my head, into a quest story with a dragon and a monkey (maybe even a dragon-monkey) and an adventure though a magical land.<\/p>\n<p>I will collect them up at some point. See if I can find someone to draw them, maybe the kid herself.<\/p>\n<p>-luke<\/p>\n<p>And it leaves me humming <a title=\"Meh-eh-eh-eh-eel-anine, why won't you go out with me...\" href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=Le75965rPhc\" target=\"_blank\">&#8216;Weird&#8217; Al&#8217;s Melanie<\/a> all morning.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My wife had this idea we should do something nice for the kid in her lunch each day. So, I have been writing a story for the kid. Each day\u00a0I put in her lunch the next episode.\u00a0 Sort of a page a day serial kids book. And it is really fun. I usually take 5-10 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7945","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/s1AdCf-melanie","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":193,"url":"https:\/\/technology-hates-you.com\/lm3m\/193","url_meta":{"origin":7945,"position":0},"title":"allergies gone wild or not","author":"lm3m","date":"2011.06.23 at 04:45 PM","format":false,"excerpt":"So, things have been pretty awful for me ever since I got back from Austin. 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