Today was my last day of paid vacation. Next week will see me finish my last Monday, last Tuesday, and last Wednesday. By that time, you’ll all be totally sick of me talking about “lasts.” But until then you’ll either need to deal with it, or just go read Whatever or some other more entertaining […]
Read More ...Monthly Archives: November 2013
Five Things I Won’t Be Missing
So, I’m down to four more days left in Corporate America. I’ve been writing about things I’m going through, the good stuff and the bad–and, yes, there are some good things about working in a corporate environment. That said, there are many things that I.SO.WILL.NOT.MISS about working freelance. Among these are: 1) Feeding the cat […]
Read More ...The Most Important “Last?”
Amid the sea of “lasts” that I’ve been wading through these past few days/weeks, I completed what my be the coolest “last” tonight, that being my last team dinner. My co-workers and my team took me out to dinner tonight. If a team group like this can be cozy, that’s what it was. These are […]
Read More ...Reversing gender roles?
“Do you enjoy getting dinner together?” Lisa said. I looked at her like this might be a trick question, a set-up or something. But the mantle has already shifted in our household–I’ve already been doing the bulk of meal prep since the time of Lisa’s foot surgery (weak though that prep might be!). I couldn’t […]
Read More ...Step war!
My company started a walking challenge back in April. Now, after seven months and well over 4 and a half million steps, I find myself in a neck-and-neck race with “Bob.” As of yesterday, less than 1,000 steps separated us. The next player is 600K steps behind. Pretty cool, eh? Hope I can keep my […]
Read More ...AnLab ballots released!
If you are an Analog reader, you should take a run over to their site and make selections for their annual AnLab Readers award. The poll is open until the end of January, but don’t let that slow you down. Of course, my story “Bugs” is eligible in the short story category, and “Following Jules” […]
Read More ...Profanity
“You will never find a character use foul language in any of my stories.” This something I’ve heard a couple times from writers recently, and it’s something that’s stuck in my craw enough that I’m still thinking about it this weekend. I rarely say anything when I hear someone say this–or at least I haven’t […]
Read More ...Green grass everywhere you look
Today was my last Friday in Corporate America. It was busy, and it was good because I spent so much of it working with my team. They are what I’m going to miss the most, of course. The past two weeks have been interesting in so many ways, but perhaps the most interesting is the […]
Read More ...Episode Seven: Biting the Dust
Episode Seven, Lord of the Freeborn is officially mine. Finally. Oh, sure, I still have ten pages or so to straighten up. Not a problem. The flow is right. The story is where it needs to be, and the micro writing is at least workable. So, yes, I say unto Episode Seven that you are […]
Read More ...Ender’s Game: Meh-
Lisa and I saw Ender’s Game this afternoon, and unfortunately didn’t find it particularly worthy. This book is pretty much hallowed ground among both Lisa and I, but Lisa clearly vlaues it even more. She reads it fairly often, and had re-read it again last week just to prepare. For me, well, the word I […]
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