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Under Construction… Life goes on. A second blog tonight. I worked today with my trusty companion, Gavin, to put together another new desk for my office. Tomorrow I start exercising. And maybe do a little writing on a story for a charity anthology honoring another friend who just died. And some workshop stuff for the […]
Still Only Partially Moved In… But moved in enough that I am typing this from the new desk and will get assignments and such caught up tomorrow. And I have a second new desk to put together still. And a ton of getting paperwork together. But over the next few days I will be getting […]
Most Of You Don’t Know This… Our bookstore, North By Northwest Books and Antiques has one of the largest pharmaceutical collections in the world. All for sale. Sheldon McArthur, the former owner, loved collecting the stuff and he even found old drugstores that had gone out of business in the 1940s but nothing had been […]
The Practice Went Well… A decent small tournament that started with four tables (about forty people). It took me a couple of rounds to get settled in and some routines back in place. Felt like I was learning how to walk again. Very weird feeling. But after about an hour, I had a lot of […]
Headed for Vegas With My Computers… Where I will stay for a longer time this trip before having to head back to the coast in July to do a final clean-out of the big house. Right now I am sitting, after a long day of getting ready and packing and then driving, in a casino […]
And Nobody Said a Word… That is stunning. Kittens and cats usually bring out the comments even more. (grin) I might have to try that again. How about a picture of Ashley and Thorne, named after Clark Ashton Smith and Thorne Smith? They were with us for over a decade each. Wonderful cats. (And yes, […]
But I Must To Keep My Streak Going… So you get me typing when I really want to just toddle off to bed after staring at this computer for far too many hours. Don’t you just love these filler posts? (grin) So how about a picture from the past? Me and the Wild Bunch. This […]
Thirty-Two Years Ago I Met Kris in Albuquerque Algis Budrys had asked me to stop there and give two writers a ride to Taos, New Mexico where we were all attending a conference. Kris was one of those writers. We have been together ever since. I consider that the luckiest day of my life. We […]
Judge Bubba’s Christmas Letters. I mentioned this book last year and wanted to suggest it again this year because you will not only feel good reading these Christmas letters, but laugh and identify with much of it. Basically, you know the typical form letter you get from family or friends at Christmas? Well, these ain’t […]
14 Tools for Making Book Covers… Nate at the Digital Reader just did a post on 14 sites for helping with making covers. Some of them make the 3d covers. I know some of you here are still paying far too much to have covers made. Time to dig in to a learning curve and […]