Monday morning I woke up feeling the most despondent I have yet since election night. Well, since after election night. That night was pretty bad. But I’ve had a sort of energy since then, maybe a bit manic, that may have been propping me up. Yesterday, I woke up and read the news as I […]
Category: Practical
It has been a little over a month since I have written any fiction. Not a word. But I am getting back on that proverbial horse. A little over a month ago, I was offered a half time job by a friend, and I took it. Thus a third, part-time career was born. I am […]
Ow
I am forty three years old. I have been blessedly healthy all those years, with nary a serious illness, a broken bone, nor a hospital stay. But yesterday, I had the pleasure of my first CT scan. Let me back up. Three mornings ago, I had a little back pain. Then the pain shifted around […]
Hey all. So, it was about a month ago that I posted that last update on my writing career. You may be wondering how the writing career is going. Yeah, how is the writing career going? Okay. I spent this last month doing a lot of worldbuilding, which was fun. An aside for non-SF/F fans: […]
iTunes Match Airport Wall Wart
Delightful name, no? I would like Apple to build a wall wart1 that connects to my iTunes Match account (nee, my iCloud account) to stream music. It should be very much like an Airport Express, being wall-wartish, and having an audio out option, but it should be purpose built to connect to my music in […]
Updated! — discount on Vz, too! Update #2 — no voice+data on Vz Update #3 — done and done Hi all. Back to the mundane. Apple announced (or rather, confirmed what we’ve all known for several months now) a new iPhone today. The iPhone 5 will be available for pre-order this Friday, to ship a […]
Forty freakin’ two
Too old to be a child prodigy, too young to be an elder statesman. Today is my birthday. Serious thoughts on the date itself later today, but for now, I just want to give a shout out to my parents, without whom I would not be here, and my family, without whom I would not […]
Son of a… blog
Not quite a decade ago, I forked over several hundred dollars to support a little web hosting company that could, TextDrive. In exchange, they gave me a lifetime hosting promise. It was a good run, and they even honored their promise across a couple of acquisitions and mergers. But a week or so ago, they […]
Molting tree?
It would appear that the really big sycamore in our back yard is molting? Um. Help? UPDATE: I’ve been informed by people more knowledgeable than I that sycamore trees do this on a regular basis. In fact, since this event, we’ve had several more barkfalls, probably exacerbated by the drought this summer.
When we first moved in to our house in Lawrence, we got a pretty big walk-in closet in the master bedroom. We’d not had one like that before, and immediately set about using it to simplify our laundry tasks. Before this, we’d collect all our laundry in one basket (occasionally we’d try two, whites and […]