Caught up, part 1

I’m caught up on Battlestar Galactica, having watched the last 5 episodes of Season 4 finally.  I had given up on most TV shows during the writer’s strike, and I am slowly getting back to a few of them.  New episodes begin tomorrow and yes, I’ll probably end up Tivoing them.

Good writing progress

I did a second session of writing last night where I managed another 800 words or so, making the total for yesterday 1,500 words. This evening, after word, I headed up to the office/guest room and in roughly an hour and a half, added another 1,400+ words to the story. It feels very good and [...]

Lunchtime writing–surprise!

It was my plan to read during lunch today, but the as I read, I kept thinkingabout one of the stories I’ve been working on. Often times, I jot down a note or two and come back to the story later, but given how poor I’ve felt my writing to be lately, I thought I [...]

Short science fiction and short fiction editors

[Friends who don't care about s.f., skip this post and get five minutes of your life back.] I’m halfway through Gardner Dozois’ The Best of the Best: 20 Years of the Year’s Best Science Fiction and I’ve made an interesting discovery.  First, some background: Short fiction is my favorite form, whether reading or writing. I read [...]

Meetings, meetings, meetings

Yup, one of those days.  I was up at 6 AM, headed downstairs to feed the cats and pack my lunch.  Strangely, when I was done packing my lunch, I still didn’t hear the shower going. Kelly was still asleep.  I got her up and then came back down to eat breakfast.  A little while later [...]

And the winners are…

Last week I polled you all on the sex of our baby.  I told you that it would be a few weeks before we learned the sex.  We were scheduled for another comprehensive ultrasound on January 23.  However, at our regular OB appointment on Friday, our wonderful doctor did an ultrasound right there in the office and when [...]

Cleaning day

Today was supposed to be our cleaning day, and to that end, I think we did a pretty good job.  I cleaned two of the three bathrooms today ( I would have cleaned all three but I forgot about the last one and never got back to it).  I vacuumed downstairs.  Kelly put away all of the holiday decorations [...]

The Museum of American History

We had a lazy Saturday morning and finally got our act together and headed out for a while.  We took the metro downtown to Archives and then walked to the newly remodeled Museum of American History, where we spent a couple of hours wandering around the exhibits.  It is a remodel of the museum, and [...]

Movies that I want to see

I don’t go to the movies often, but there are currently two movies in theaters that I want to see: Gran Torino with Clint EastwoodThe Wrestler with Mickey Rourke Or I could wait for them to come out of DVD.  It’s not like I don’t have plenty to keep my occupied.

The best of 2008

While I’m thinking of it, here is my best of 2008 (reading, of course): Novels: The Terminal Experiment by Robert J. Sawyer Up the Line by Robert Silverberg Factoring Humanity by Robert J. Sawyer Old Man’s War by John Scalzi The Ghost Brigades by John Scalzi Only Begotten Daughter by James Morrow Cauldron by Jack [...]

Baby pool — get your vote in!

Since there is probably a pool already going, I figured I’d make it official. With that in mind: Winner’s* will be announced in roughly two weeks. * Odds of winning: 1 in 2.  Winners will receive congratulations from the soon-to-be parents.  No purchase necessary.  Void where prohibited.

Time to relax!

Good work day today, very productive.  Bad weather day, lots of rain and general nastiness.  We stopped at the grocery store on the way home to pick up some things.  I made ravioli for dinner, mine with pasta sauce, Kelly’s with chicken soup broth.  Yum!  It hit the spot.  No interesting mail today.  I got [...]

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