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I'm finding things out as I progress through my poem-NaNo:

1. Iambs (and trochees) become easier to find/feel with practice.
2. It takes anywhere from 90 minutes to three hours to craft a sonnet (not counting any revisions).
3. Spenserian sonnets still rock my socks.
4. I still have yet to write a "real" sonnet (rigorous iambic pentameter throughout).
5. Even when I think I've gotten a sonnet down pat, I inevitably will find too few or too many stresses in one or more lines. That irks me! It always seems to be a smooth process when I'm crafting.

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Hippy bird day, flinx!

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There's still time to join the fun at insohaimo! Do a poem-NaNo of your own!

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My computer is starting to creep me out.

Earlier, I was moving windows around, and I noticed that they overlapped the taskbar. Now, I've always had the taskbar set to have it stay on top, and when I checked the properties, it sure enough said "Always on top." So I pressed ok, and the windows went back to being behind the bar.

That was about an hour ago. Just now I pressed the Show Desktop button, and all the windows and the taskbar went away. I checked the properties of the desktop, then cancelled out of everything, and then the taskbar came back! I went back into its properties, unchecked "Always on top," rechecked it, pressed apply, then ok.

Has anyone else dealt with this type of problem? I don't like having a rebellious computer.

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Who Will Rule Us After the Next 9/11?: The reality of NSPD-51 is almost as bad as the paranoia (thanks, fadedpaladin)