MS Publisher doesn't do strikethroughs - weird. McAfee has now moved from weekly updates to daily updates. This is a no-brainer; even Grisoft's AVG Free Edition does updates more than once a week. Found the 'Multiplicity' multi-cache today at lunch with Dan. This one threw me the first time around since there are 36 coordinate combinations for the second leg, although there are only 12 possibilities in the park. Even still, Dan and I were still scrambling around the park the first time with no luck. Had to chuckle at the placement when we finally found it! =)

I finally computed the statistics for our NevNugNov novel-writing experiment (part of last November's NaNoWriMo 2004 project), and they are as follows:

Kekoa ('camembertman')

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Words: 18,702 (33.90% of the book)
Chapters: 10 (19.61% of chapters)
Pages: 39
Paragraphs: 347
Lines: 1,763
Characters (with spaces): 107,524
Characters (no spaces): 88,994
Days: 9 (30.00% of the month)
Chapter Listing: 5, 9, 15, 22, 27, 30, 34, 45, 50-51
Date Listing: November 2-3, 5, 8, 11, 14, 18, 28, 30

Richard

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Words: 15,580 (28.24% of the book)
Chapters: 18 (35.29% of chapters)
Pages: 31
Paragraphs: 253
Lines: 1,385
Characters (with spaces): 90,291
Characters (no spaces): 74,336
Days: 16 (53.33% of the month)
Chapter Listing: 1, 6, 8, 11, 14, 21, 25, 28, 31, 33, 35-36, 39, 41-44, 47
Date Listing: November 1-5, 7, 10, 12, 15, 17, 19-20, 26-29

Brad

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Words: 14,042 (25.45% of the book)
Chapters: 17 (33.33% of chapters)
Pages: 28
Paragraphs: 245
Lines: 1,250
Characters (with spaces): 77,409
Characters (no spaces): 63,570
Days: 15 (50.00% of the month)
Chapter Listing: 3, 7, 10, 12, 17, 19, 23-24, 26, 29, 32, 37-38, 40, 46, 48-49
Date Listing: November 1-3, 5-6, 8-9, 11, 13, 16, 21, 23, 26, 28-29

Ray ('RW Mime')

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Words: 7,629 (13.83% of the book)
Chapters: 4 (7.84% of chapters)
Pages: 24
Paragraphs: 401
Lines: 1,075
Characters (with spaces): 45,736
Characters (no spaces): 38,514
Days: 3 (10.00% of the month)
Chapter Listing: 13, 16, 18, 20
Date Listing: November 5-7

Mike

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Words: 757 (1.37% of the book)
Chapters: 1 (1.96% of chapters)
Pages: 2
Paragraphs: 20
Lines: 78
Characters (with spaces): 4,206
Characters (no spaces): 3,416
Days: 1 (3.33% of the month)
Chapter Listing: 2
Date Listing: November 1

Darlene

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Words: 332 (0.60% of the book)
Chapters: 1 (1.96% of chapters)
Pages: 1
Paragraphs: 5
Lines: 27
Characters (with spaces): 1,840
Characters (no spaces): 1,500
Days: 1 (3.33% of the month)
Chapter Listing: 4
Date Listing: November 1

As for the book as a whole, our combined totals were 51 chapters comprised of 57,042 words, spread over 27 days, by 6 co-authors. Whew - now if we can just make it through a month of editing...