I did it! Tonight, at 9.10 PM on the last day of NaNoWriMo, with a mere 2 hours 50 mins to go before the cutoff time of 23:59, I uploaded my word doc, let the nanobots count it and got delivered to the Winner's Page where I collected a cool certificate! OH, and a dinky icon thingy to post here:

Now, of course, the real work starts. The second half of the novel needs to be written. Then the rest period followed by edits, rewrites, revisions etc. The fun part ... :-)