RavenCon 2009

Kelly and I were up early on Saturday morning and hit the road before 8 am for our drive down to Richmond for RavenCon 2009.  We arrived at the hotel, checked in, had some breakfast, registered, and then got started.  This was Kelly’s first science fiction convention (or as she lovingly referred to it, "nerd convention") [...]

Changes

I was at RavenCon this weekend (about which I will have more to say in a subsequent post) and while there, I attended a session on Blogging for Writers.  Among the panelists were   and   and davidbcoe”/>  and

ANNOUCEMENT: “Hindsight, in Neon” to appear in Descended From Darkness anthology

I found out today that my recent story, “Hindsight, in Neon” (Apex Magazine, April 2009) will be included in the anthology Descended From Darkness. This is a collection of stories that have appeared in Apex Magazine. The book is slated for an early December release. It marks the first time that a story of mine [...]

Tuesday

I finally had a good night’s sleep last night.  We were in bed early, around 8:30 pm, and I turned the light out at 9.  I woke up at 11:30 and felt like I’d slept well.  Went back to sleep and we were up at 6 am and I felt well-rested. Pretty nice day, weather-wise [...]

Sleepless

Terrible night’s sleep last night.  We went to bed around 10 pm and then I was up at 2 am and could not get back to sleep.  I tried reading, I tried going into the guest room.  I tossed and turned. Nothing seemed to work.  It was not until almost 6 am that I finally [...]

Visitors from another planet?

Former NASA Apollo astronaut Edgar Mitchell is once again claiming that we are being visited by aliens and UFOs and that the government is covering it up.  As a science fiction writer and fan, and as one who has been captivated by the marvels of the universe since I was a boy, my initial response [...]

C-section class

We had our full c-section class tonight at Fairfax Inova.  What a difference a hospital makes.  To this point, all of our classes have been at the nearby-but-much-smaller Alexandria Inova hospital.  But we are having the baby at Fairfax, a little farther away, and much bigger.  It made sense, therefore, to take the c-section class [...]

Spring has sprung!

What a gorgeous day, today!  Definitely the nicest weather we’ve had so far this year.  The skies were crystal clear, a deep blue, and the air was warm (mid-70s) and perfumed with springlike scents.  We were both up fairly early.  Kelly headed out to do some shopping and I got through a bunch of chores. [...]

Happy birthday, stubiebrother!

Happy birthday wishes go out to stubiebrother today!  Hope you have a great day and looking forward to seeing you in two weeks. Originally published at From the Desk of Jamie Todd Rubin. You can comment here or there.

Happy hours

My boss has been in town the last few days and yesterday he gave me a preview of my review–and his ratings turned out to be better than what I rated myself!  I was stuck in several meetings yesterday and in the last one, it was more or less decided to push back the rollout [...]

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