Twist and shout

Just wrapped up another hour or so of record-keeping and updating submission log.  There were gaps in the log from 1996-2000 and I’m going through my diaries from that time (as well as those rejection slips that I still have) to fill in the gaps.  I’m through 1996 and 1997.  I’ll try and tackle the [...]

Tax day

Our taxes were e-filed by our accountant more than a week ago. We owed a chunk for Federal taxes, but it was still only about a third of what I owed last year. I mailed off the check to the federal government on Monday. We were owed just over $200 from the state and we [...]

RavenCon

It is official.  I will be attending RavenCon this year, and Kelly will be going with me.  In 2007, RavenCon was the first science fiction convention I ever attended.  This time, it will be the first for Kelly.  (She lovingly refers to these as my “nerd conventions”.)  We decided to stay over Saturday night, and [...]

Paper work

We slept in an extra hour this morning.  I got up at 6 to feed the cats and then came back upstairs and we decided to sleep an extra hour.  It was nice in principle, but I had a pretty bad dream during that hour, which kind of spoiled it for me. Made some good [...]

How not to break the baby

We had our baby care class last night at Alexandria Inova hospital.  The same person who teaches our birthing class taught this class.  There was one other couple from our birthing class in the baby care class.  It turned out to be a much bigger class. We learned all kinds of things, which Kelly summarized [...]

Finished I. Asimov

I finished reading I. Asimov at lunch today.  It’s always an emotional time for me, coming to the end of that book and today was no different.  That is part of the reason that I read Isaac’s autobiographies in the order that I do, starting with I. Asimov (the last one) and then going back [...]

A science fiction dream about science fiction people

Last night, I dreamed that Barry Malzberg (who in real life has said some nice things about my latest story, “The Last Science Fiction Writer“), told Ray Bradbury (whom I’ve only met once) about my story. Later in the dream, Barry said, “Look who’s here to see you,” and standing there was Ray Bradbury, holding [...]

Boycott Amazon.com?

Via Charles Stross, this, which would seem to indicate Amazon.com is now explicitly censoring certain “adult” books. Censorship in all forms is an opprobrious practice in my mind. I currently have 2 books on order from Amazon and I’m checking to see if it’s too late to cancel the order and put the order through [...]

Easter Sunday

Good day today.  We were up early and came downstairs.  Kelly made herself breakfast and when she went to get a knife out of the knife drawer, she discovered an Easter egg.  Looks as though the Easter bunny paid us a visit.  Kelly spent 20 minutes wandering around the house looking for more eggs. Twelve [...]

28 days

No, not the movie.  Sorry to disappoint. It has been 28 days since I lost feeling on the inner portion of my right thumb.  It is being treated now as “developing carpal tunnel syndrome”.  I wear wrist braces and take Narpelan.  And still, no one can tell me if the feeling will ever return.  But [...]

Nerves!

I slept pretty well last night.  We had the windows open and early in the morning, the rain started and the air was cool and smelled good and I think that really helped make it a peaceful evening.  My plan today was to attempt to get some reading done as well as get caught up [...]

Falling behind, part 2

Other things I’ve fallen behind on: Returning phone calls Returning email Anything that has to do with baseball Bills, apparently (I forgot to pay a water bill and got an annoyed reminder from the water people) Cleaning the cat litter (which I finally got caught up on this evening) Just in case you were expecting [...]

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