If you listen to the right song loud enough, long enough – all is well ♫ ♬ power of music…

by leslie.

Leslie says about herself:

Speaker. Social Media Enabler. ENTP. Author. Hockey.

Leslie was a good find via other Twitter friends. She loves to share and engage. I recommend you follow leslie on Twitter.

This morning I crossed the 30,000 word mark.  I’m excited. This is the highest number of words I’ve reached in three attempts. I’m not done either.

This puts me ahead of the curve. Much better than either of the previous years.

Blue lines represent the word count you’d have if you divided the 50,000 words up over the 30 days equally. As you can see, I’m not doing that.

My personal goal is to be done before Thanksgiving eve. I’m planning on traveling starting that Wednesday evening and be busy for the next few days. That will certainly decrease the opportunity to write.

How am I doing it? I’m giving myself some isolate time to write nearly every day. Only one day did I miss writing. I’m also seeking daily encouragement from others. The flip side to getting that? Give out a ton of it.

According to a recent pep talk, it gets easier after 30,000 words. I don’t know about that, but I’m pumped up to go the distance.  Please consider cheering me on, donating Diet Pepsi products, writing a blog post about me and my story, or something else.

For those choosing to write about me and my story, I’ll send you the text to date and you can excerpt it. Heck, monetary donations would be nice as well, but please make those at nanowrimo.org, under donations.

Cheers to my #nanowrimo twitter family, especially those in St. Louis.

I’m tojosan on nanowrimo.org. Find me. Buddy up.

With chapters in New York, Philadelphia, Nashville and Miami, Musicians on Call bring live and recorded music to the bedsides of healthcare facilities. This helps complement the healing process for patients, families and caregivers. This is provided in a number of ways.

Bedside Performance Program

Volunteer artists give live performances in-room for patients that are too ill to leave their beds. To date, Musicians on Call have played for more than 150,000 individuals and their families. They also have 32 regular scheduled weekly performances at 27 facilities throughout the four cities they currently cover.

CD Pharmacy Program

Musicians on Call also provide hospitals with complete CD libraries, as well as personal CD players for the patients to use – all free of charge. Thanks to this, there are currently 310 CD Pharmacies throughout the U.S., Puerto Rico and Dublin in Ireland.

Project Playback Program

As well as the volunteer artists who help Musicians on Call achieve their aim, the charity also has a program that gives patients the chance to have their own music recorded and produced. By using special software, patients can compose their own songs and work with volunteer professionals – artists, producers and more – and get help in the writing an recording process.

View from House Tojosan

Music has been a part of my life from my earliest years.  My parents used music to help get me to sleep. Memories of joy were highlighted by those where I sang along with the music surrounding me. Still today I enjoy this.

Music makes a long drive short, a tough bit of programming less challenging, and a sour mood not quite so sad.  I’ve already thought about music I’d like played at my funeral.  This charity makes me mindful how I’d miss music if I was stuck in the hospital with illness or old age.

Take time out to visit Musicians on Call. Your donation will bring peace, joy and remembrance to someone stuck alone in a hospital bed.

Are you a geek? Love music? Then this video will bring you a taste to satisfy both. Suze, @suzemuse, brings us bit of video footage from her visit to the National Arts Centre Sci-Fi Spectactular.

As a blogger, this part of Suze’s article really hit it for me:
For anyone who thinks the National Arts Centre is a stuffy old place where only the hoity-toity go, think again. They are doing some really progressive stuff these days, with shows like this and all of their great new media ventures. What I really appreciate is that the NAC is reaching out to us bloggers to help them tell their story.

Wow. That’s a ringing endorsement for any place. Now to drag myself up there.

There’s a guest star sighting at the end of the video. The whole was filmed on a Flip MinoHD Camcorder. (can you say video envy?).

Great job Suze!

What the heck? I’m guessing pay per click?

Just a quick post to let you know about the social aggregation site for Inter:play at Playfest:STL 2008.

The site is hosted by ToastedRav and is found here – http://toastedrav.com/event/interplay2008.

You can also check out my Interplay pictures. I’m only adding about five at a time to begin.

Also, if you haven’t done so, please check out the St. Louis Bloggers Guild site for more about the festival.

Get your 2008 SXSW and previous years music torrents here.

As of this post, I’m seeding at 20k Up!

It’s 3+ gigs; get started now.