NaNo Minus Six, or is it Five?

Beauty, they, say, is in the eye of the beholder, and time is relevant, therefore just how much time IS left before the commencement of National Novel Writing Madness? Certainly, one can state that (including today) we have six inspiring days until we can–legally–type those first exciting words; but another might just as correctly say that you do not include today, which means we have only five tortuous days to live through until one second past midnight on the very early morning of November 1.

Do you have countdown calendar? Perhaps, I should embed one into this website–just to keep us all on track. In the meantime, continue your limbering up exercises, yodeling classes, apple dunking contests, and keep an eye to the times. They are indeed a-changin’.