Scare
For the new year, I shall post with one-word titles. Why? No reason. I’m just eccentric like an ellipse that way. Maybe it’ll challenge me to describe my posts with only one word. Now, I think this attempt will be futile, because I’m not known for keeping promises. This is one reason I failed NaNo — three times. Enough blabbing about my failures. On to the scare.
Over the holidays, me and my family visited our relatives, as you may have deduced from my Christmas post. When we got back home on the 30th, I noticed the light that provided Castelo heat was stuck, and the switch wouldn’t turn on. There was also a burnt smell to the air. Now, I didn’t really think that was a problem, because I just spent over 8 hours in the car. In the morning, I ignored the light, and went about my day, not really caring that a failed electrical device was still getting power. Of course, I didn’t realized that this dangerous device was potentially still a threat.
–SMALL INTERMISSION–
This is what I did the night of December 31st.
7:30-10:00 PM: Watched The Bourne Ultimatum on TV.
10:00-10:40 PM: Took a walk with my dad.
10:4o-11:58 PM: Watched the last half of She’s The Man.
12:00 AM: Watched the ball drop.
12:15 AM: Went to bed.
–INTERMISSION OVER–
So on the first morning on 2012, I checked the light again, then realized something was very wrong. I immediately unplugged the malicious light socket and showed my father, who is an Electrical Engineer, so he’d know what happened. As it turns out, the light short-circuted, got very hot, and caught fire. Yes. Caught fire. Fire in the house, while we were gone, ignorant of the danger that was happening at home. God protected our house in this possible disaster, and I praise Him for that. All in all, nothing serious happened, except that we lost a light.
So Castelo is fine?
I happen to hate one-word titles, but they’re better in blog posts than on books and stories. People who give their books one-word titles seem to think they’re so classy, but actually one-worders can’t say much about the content. I prefer to give my stories/novels whole sentences for titles (Make Me Whole Again, etcetera.)
By the way, I noticed the error with the time on my New Year’s post before you commented again. Whatever. 12:00:00 should be p.m., but unfortunately 12:00:01 is over in the a.m. . . .
[Author's note: Please don't use my nickname for Castelo.]
Phrases, you mean? Well. My Nano was a one-word title, and it’s dragging (as usual).
I think one-word titles are intriguing and sort of interesting. They make you want to know more about the story. But then vague titles work too. Like that new movie, Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close, or whatever its title was.