pet pictures
Spring is here
Spent this weekend building raised beds in the back for a vegetable garden. Spent most of Saturday building these, three boxes 8x4x2 and three 4x4x2. And Truffles is much more mobile now, and she can hang out outside now.
pet pictures
Another Truffle Update
If you’ve followed my blog, you’ve seen me talk about our dog Truffles. Back during the summer, she was stricken with something, no one has yet diagnosed what, that weakened her until she was unable to walk. At first we thought it was neurological, but she was never completely paralyzed. Read more…
real life
Juggling
Well finally got to updating the counters for the WIP. And I am now feeling the main issue that faces every writer with a day job, time. There just isn’t enough of it. Once you take time for commuting, writing, taking care of the animals and the day job itself, Read more…
pet pictures
Christmas is quickly upon us
We got our tree up, so here are some festive fictures to put you in a seasonal mood.
about the blog
Page Proofs + Rewrite + Bathroom Remodel = No Blog Post For You
Overwhelmed with work and such so blogging will be intermittent for November while I scramble to get stuff done. I may blog a bit before Thanksgiving, if time permits, but no promises.
rants
Attempted Vehicular Homicide
In 1983 Steven King wrote the novel Chistine, about a car that was possessed. A vehicle that was, in essence, evil. I now realize that Mr. King, more than likely, owned at one point a vehicle much like my 96 Ford F-150. Like some people, some vehicles just seem to Read more…
real life
No time to blog. . .
Spent blogging time trying to revive my mom’s PC, unfortunately, the patient died. I’m going to bequeath her my PC’s old brain, in a new case. (Actually an old case, my wife’s defunct Compaq 🙂
appearances
The children did not eat me
All in all the class yesterday was a success, I manged to avoid choking, and I actually interacted with human beings who did not exist when I started writing professionally. More important, I think I did manage to get a few things across. It helps that we had a smart Read more…
appearances
Off to class
Running off to try and teach a bunch of 14-year-olds about action scenes. Wish me luck.
real life
And how to do customer service right
After my post eviscerating Lowe’s (In particular, the Lowe’s at 24500 Miles Road in Bedford Heights) I thought it might be a good thing to illustrate a counter-example. Last night, me and my wife ventured to the Regal Cinema in Cleveland Heights to watch a satellite broadcast of Glen Beck’s Read more…