I recently received a donation request from the Fandom Association of Central Texas. Since it’s for a good cause, in addition to sending them a few titles of mine, I thought I’d pimp it here on the blog. If you’re a writer, consider shipping them some donations. If you’re a Read more…
If you are thinking about visiting a big box home-improvement store, let us say for an example, the Lowe’s at 24500 Miles Road in Bedford Heights, Ohio, and you are, again let us say for an example, third in line at the checkout in the garden center, you might expect Read more…
I happen to have a homebrew PC on my desktop:
Looks cool, but was beginning to seriously feel its age. (It would slow down if you put a Vista install disk in the same room.) So I bought a new motherboard and and chip for it.
Here were prepping for surgery:
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This past Monday I went down to Mac’s Backs in Cleveland Heights (my local book store of old) to see expat Hamster Cat Valente do a reading/concert/art auction. It’s as cool as it sounds, and if you’re lucky enough to have her doing her Palimpsest rounds somewhere near you, I’d Read more…
I just wanted to post a head’s-up on this a little in advance while there is still time for people to sign up. I will be teaching a class at the 18th Annual Western Reserve Spring Writers Confrence at Lakeland Community College on Marh 28th. The confrence runs between 8:30 Read more…
UPDATE: Things went very well last night. A fun time had by all. The actors were cast perfectly, and given the answer distribution, I seem to have struck the right balance between an obvious villain and a completely obscure solution. Tonight I am going, with a bit of apprehension, to Read more…
Been doing this writing stuff as a pro for the past sixteen years or so, and I’ve discovered one thing that just never gets any easier. Now it may look like, occasionally, I’m doing several things at once. That’s never really the case, you can’t really write two things simultaneously. Read more…
Otherwise I would have been live blogging my ordeal the last two days of 2008. Just as well, as while I did end up riding an ambulance to the ER with chest pains and being admitted to the hospital overnight, turns out that here wasn’t much wrong other than severe Read more…
My wife’s birthday came in November, and today this gift box was delivered: That’s a mighty impressive box. Wonder what’s inside? Ok, packed snugly with some paper packing materials, another box. Interesting. Want to take a wild guess what’s inside? Well there were a whole mess of Styrofoam peanuts and… Read more…
Friend, fellow Ohio writer and former hamster Toby Buckell has ended up in the hospital, having gone into the ER with “shallow breathing and a high heart rate.” Send good thoughts his way. . . after all this guy is so cool he’s live-blogging his own hospital admission.