As I’ve noted in a few places, Lisa and I bought ourselves a pair of treadmill desks for our Christmas present. They arrived last week, and we started using them immediately. That means we’re moving into week two of our desktop treadmills, so I thought I would give you a bit of a report on […]
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Writing Fiction: Resolution Check-in #3
As we’re drawing toward the end of the month I’ve been touched on progress toward my resolutions of the new year. The only one I haven’t commented on yet is: “Write fiction every day.” The fact is that I’ve missed three days. Well, technically I guess I’ve only missed two days, but I admit it’s […]
Read More ...Marriage and the Ability to Responsibly Create
I generally attempt to stay away from deep politics here. Not completely, of course. I’ve talked about health care a little, and I’ve touched very lightly on guns and our latest epidemic of mass shootings. In the old days, I wrote a bit on the Clinton impeachment that got some play on the main SFF.net […]
Read More ...Resolution Check-in #1
Since we’re nearing the end of the month, I thought I would take a look at my New Year’s Resolutions. To remind, I made three of them. Average over 20K steps a day Write fiction every day Read a short story every day Today I’ll talk about he first one–personal activity. Let me start by […]
Read More ...18 Days?
So it takes 18 days to get over a cough. File this under Something I Should Have Known. Of course, the thing I think is most interesting is the piece about how the use of antibiotics in these cases tend to support people in their misguided perception that they helped–despite the fact that they are […]
Read More ...Sucked & Didn’t Suck
Three things that sucked this morning: Waking up at 4:30 to see the temperature outside was 9F, then finding it was 7F two hours later. Dear World, You’re going in the wrong damned direction, okay? Cat puke on carpet. I assume it was an editorial comment on our decision to leave her behind for five […]
Read More ...One Cliff, Side-Stepped
Am I a total seerer, or what? In early December I had a brief Facebook conversation with a friend who bemoaned the political shenanigans of the fiscal cliff. I said not to sweat it, that the best thing to do was to go away and check back at the end of the year to find […]
Read More ...Resolutions
I’ve been thinking about the coming year, and trying to come up with some good resolutions. It seems like resolutions should be made. Really, it does, doesn’t it? I can think of a lot of things I could or should make resolutions about–things like working on being a better person, being a better husband and […]
Read More ...GREAT THINGS THAT HAPPENED TO/FOR ME THIS YEAR
At the day job, I put together a Year End Review of achievements my team had accomplished in 2012. You know the gig–the standard set of before and after metrics that show progress in the murky, complex world of Corporate America, or, since I live in a multi-national, perhaps I should say Corporate Earth. After […]
Read More ...What You Get When You Trust a Cat
So, today, as usual, I expected the cat to wake me up at 6:00. This is what the cat does. It’s my fault, of course. I’ve trained her over the years that breakfast is served at 4:30 AM give or take. So now I can’t sleep particularly late unless I go to a hotel. If […]
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