Musing over the past week

Can you believe August has slipped away?
I've been incredibly busy.
I'm working on some rewrites on my novel Nether Regions.
I'm working on Skin, a horror story for the Dark Things anthology. Be sure and buy this one when it comes out because it helps support the ASPCA.
I'm working on an erotica story for the Schramm/Foster anthology
I'm tweaking my novel Slew Pond
I working on my latest novel Whispers
I don't sleep much, LOL.
I read a very interesting thing the other day. Several interesting things, actually. Did you know that Thomas Jefferson probably had a form of autism called Asperger's Syndrome? I've always been fascinated by him--living 25 years in Charlottesville VA, the city he created, how could I not be enthralled? Anyway, at http://www.tjed.org there is a wonderful website based on learning as he did.
The other fascinating thing was writing longhand versus creating on the computer.
I've recently backed away from electronic PDAs (I know! Me the IT puter nerd? The electronic kid? How could I?). Too much data has been spilled from my blackberry so I've started using a Sprint Lotus, which is just shy of being a dataphone,but is geeky enough for me.
I have gone back to the quirky PDA I love, which is the Hispter PDA, consisting of a stack of index cards etc. See it here: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hipster_PDA
You can get a ton of cool templates here: www.diyplanner.com/templates/official/hpda
For fun: booksbyrachel.blogspot.com/2009/05/hipster-pda.html
I use a combination of manuscript clips and manuscript rings (on the ones I flip a lot, like my TODO bundle). I have a PDa for daily journaling, one for info I snag from wherever, a financial bundle, the list goes on.
Yes, it started as a joke but the masses gave it life. In conjunction with computers and a data phone for storage, it can't be beat. It's a great way to capture creative energy which, as we all know, spills forth at any time.
So, returning to the topic that started this rant, I was checking some regular sites and stumbled across this:
www.diyplanner.com/node/6126
It was suitably awesome--about a NaNoWriMo participant who wrote her book in longhand. One of the people responding to her blog talked about how rewarding it was to write an entire novel by hand. I love to write by hand--finding it somehow more intuitive.
www.nanowrimo.org/eng/node/3002416
THEN I came across a stand used by Jane Austen as she wrote her novels in longhand (of course!). www.jasa.net.au/newsdc99.htm
It's just been one of those revelatory weeks.