Tuesday, December 18, 2007 - Foscue Creek Park, Demopolis AL

Fallen, Foscue Creek Park, Demopolis AL, December 18, 2007

My internet connection is giving me fits this morning. The connection keeps dropping out. Guess I have some diagnostic work to do today.

Later in the morning: I spent some time fiddling with the connections to the Kyocera KR1 router, Verizon USB720 modem and Wilson Electronics amplifier I use and couldn't find anything amiss so I guess I must have had a particularly weak cell signal here this morning. My connection seems to be holding fine now. I use a Verison BroadbandAccess Data Plan and this isn't Verison country here at Foscue Creek Park, even though Verizon's Coverage Locator claims otherwise. The signal here is weak and the web access speed is barely above dial-up but I can live with that for such a fine place to hang out.

Night camp

Site 42 - Foscue Creek Campground, Demopolis AL

This is a well maintained US Army Corps of Engineers campground with level paved sites, most with full hookups
Many sites overlook the water of the inlets off Demopolis Lake on the Tombigbee River
There is good biking on the park roads
The campground is pretty full Thanksgiving week and is generally booked solid the weekend of the Demopolis Christmas on the River festival in early December.
Poor Verizon cell phone service - access is via Extended Network, roaming
No Verizon EVDO service - access is via the Extended Network and service varies is slow but reliable
Only 3 miles to Wal-Mart and other services in Demopolis AL
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Give it, Give it All, Give it Now

One of the few things I know about writing is this: spend it all, shoot it, play it, lose it, all, right away, every time. Do not hoard what seems good for a later place in the book, or for another book; give it, give it all, give it now. The impulse to save something good for a better place later is the signal to spend it now. Something more will arise for later, something better. These things fill from behind, from beneath, like well water. Similarly, the impulse to keep to yourself what you have learned is not only shameful, it is destructive. Anything you do not give freely and abundantly becomes lost to you. You open your safe and find ashes.

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