I am Justin Tadlock.

I am also a writer. A front-end developer. A gardener. A small-town Alabama kid just trying to figure out whatever it is that that folks are supposed to figure out on this journey. Welcome to my little home on the web.

Rewriting Chapters 2 & 3

Yes, I will be rewriting the chapters that I sloppily threw together last night. So, you don’t need to read them. Actually, I’m not rewriting them, I’m completely starting from scratch. I’m tossing them out the window, and coming up with something better. I don’t know if I’ll have time … Continue reading →

There Goes Lucy In The Sky With Her Diamonds

I have so much I can write tonight, but I don’t want to fill up the entire page with useles rant when I have an even more useless 2 chapters of my novel I’m writing for the National Novel Writing Month. And let me tell you what a load of … Continue reading →

Okay Mr. Pudgy, We Can Go Now

I have finished my first chapter for the National Novel Writing Month. I was going to do The Great Southern American Novel, but instead, I’ve came up with something totally different. I had an idea earlier this afternoon and thought I should just go with it. So, I did just … Continue reading →

By Golly, I Will Write

Man, I didn’t realize how late it was. I’ve been sitting here for a while working on my style sheet for this site. Basically, I have been tidying up the CSS with comments, changing the capital letters to lowercase letters, and organizing the code into a more readable state. I’m … Continue reading →

1,666.666666666666667 Words A Day

Sunday morning. Thermostat set to 65°, while the cool October morning settles itself in at around 41° in Auburn, Alabama… Okay, I’m not going to post about the weather. I’m trying to get in a distinctive writing mode for the National Novel Writing Month. On November 1, 2005, I plan … Continue reading →

Dark Circles, NaNoWriMo, & More Reconstruction

Yes, it is well past my bedtime. The words on my monitor are becoming blurry. Well, they are blurry. I wish I had my web camera up and working. Hell, I don’t even know where it is. I want to show the dark circles forming around my eyes. Lack of … Continue reading →

Delirium, School, & Opera

DELIRIUM. noun 1. A temporary state of mental confusion and fluctuating consciousness resulting from high fever, intoxication, shock, or other causes. It is characterized by anxiety, disorientation, hallucinations, delusions, and incoherent speech. 2. A state of uncontrolled excitement or emotion I think I may be truly experiencing this. Once again, … Continue reading →

Sleep, Gresham's Madness, & Eva Longoria

SLEEP. It seems such a wonderful thing. Such a thing of long-lost memories that are beyond long gone now. If only I could get a wonderful 8 hours…Maybe even a slightly wonderful 6 hours of undisturbed, unadulterated shut-eye. I finally caught up with my reading of Bram Stoker’s Dracula (page … Continue reading →

Browser Compliant

Where do I start? It’s been a Long Day and a Long Night. I’ve been updating the site. Again, yes, again. I have been doing this since about 4:30, and I’ve only taken about a 2 hour break in that time. Basically, I’ve been working on making it compliant with … Continue reading →

Sick & Site Update

I’m about to go to bed. My body can hardly handle staying up this late. Yes, I am sick. I couldn’t even do yardwork this afternoon. I barely made it through 100 or so pages of Zadie Smith’s White Teeth and 55 pages (only 90 more to go before class … Continue reading →