I spent a large chunk of my work day yesterday listening to a continuous stream of Lou Reed that was playing through my inTune phone app. I had only a few meetings, so I probably listened to five hours of it. Reed playing Reed, and others covering Reed. Yes, it was a little repetitive at […]
Read More ...Progress
Who says you can’t judge an author by their cover? # So I’m making what I again hope is a last pass through Lord of the Freeborn (key word, there, being “again”). What I’m seeing makes me optimistic. The first thirty pages ran by in a breeze, and we’re just now getting to the part […]
Read More ...Steps: Revisited
Some of you may remember all those many months ago, that among my New Year’s Resolutions was to average 20,000 steps a day. It’s been awhile since I reported out, so here goes. Average Steps/Day: (all data, courtesy of my company’s Health Miles program counter) January – 22,515 February – 25,390 March – 22,933 April […]
Read More ...Long and Strange Couple Weeks
It’s been a long and strange couple of weeks here. Lisa is still progressing with her foot, and work has been quite a hog. Time is drawing down there though, and I’m finding that in an odd twist of fact, it’s actually quite easy to say “I’ll have lots of time to write in a […]
Read More ...Closer to the Endgame
Okay, I admit it, I’m sore. This weekend marked Lisa’s first trips back to the health club. We’re getting closer to the endgame with Lisa and her surgery, and this weekend represented her first trips back to the health club. We went both Saturday and Sunday–the first day she mostly hung out on the elliptical, […]
Read More ...Roger Would Have Loved It
“I forgot Roger Ebert died,” Lisa said Saturday night. “I think I’m going to cry.” We had just gotten back from seeing Gravity at the IMAX 3D theater up in Indy, and we were beginning our traditional pass at reading reviews–something we always do after seeing a film. It’s been quite a while since our […]
Read More ...The Present
“I hear you are an F1 fan?” I was not expecting this question at this time. We were, after all, at my daughter’s first signing, and she was seated before a stack of her books. She had read the prologue and first chapter of Singer, and there was lots of various talk going on. People […]
Read More ...Catching Up
Yes, it’s been a long week filled with work and catching back up after four days in Detroit. I’ll deal with the present tomorrow–promise. And, yes, it’s worth it. Hehehehe… # On the review front, here’s a very nice comment on my short story “Bugs.” TPI has seemed to be a bit of a stern […]
Read More ...Wait For It
Sometimes the world is a wondrous place. Sometimes it reaches out and gives you presents. This weekend was one of those times. I’ll leave you hanging on the actual present until tomorrow, because I’m like that, I guess, but mostly because I want to get a picture of it to do it up right. Suffice […]
Read More ...Strange Times
This is a very strange time at work. The news of my impending move away from the corporate world and into the life of a freelance writer is pretty much searching it’s happy place. This means that people are stopping me in the hallways, or pausing in the quiet moments before and after meetings. They […]
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