The Hacker’s Diet

Lisa and I have been actively working on our health the past year (or a little more). We’ve improved our basic diet, and we’re getting considerably more exercise than we were. Of course, this last bit goes without saying because prior to this decision our exercise consisted of getting up and going to the refrigerator […]

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iTunes Migration Morning(s)

Lisa and I went out and bought a new desktop machine to replace the two old clunkers we had downstairs. Yes, one to replace two … which means we’ve been having weird, if slow and drug-out, fun migrating things over from the old clunkers to the new environment. It also means we’ve been having fun […]

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PEBA Progress/Black Swan

Draft done: check Copy edit by wonderful wife done: check Modifications made: check So, yeah, things are moving along quite nicely at the moment. Novels are like that for me. They seem like they’re stuck in stasis forever, and then everything happens almost all at once, and I feel this mad-dash desire to just get […]

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Review of an Old Story

Google Alerts brings me the following link, which includes a nice and very well considered review of one of my older stories. Turns out this guy is going back and reading every issue of Dragon Magazine ever printed. At least that’s the plan. There’s a guy after my own heart. [grin] Share Me

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See the PEBA

Okay, it’s been a bit more than a month since the last update. Yeah, I’ve been busy, but this is the danged 2010’s right? No excuses for not frittering away my time here. Anyway, the news is that I’ve now completed the second draft of the baseball book, which, BTW, is now officially titled “See […]

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Draft Done!

Call it a Ron-only Novel Dare. Call it a delayed NaNoWriMo. Call it what you will, but at the end of the day what I’ve actually got is a complete first draft novel in a total of 31 days–probably some 55K words. Pretty danged cool. I sat down to write this baseball-ish fantasy on November […]

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A Wave of Words

Yeah, I know. It’s been awhile. But don’t worry…I’ve not fallen by the wayside. Not too far, anyway. I should start this by saying out loud that I had no intention of doing anything like a NANOWRIMO. I was in the middle of this science fiction thing, you see? That science fiction thing I’ve been […]

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