Month: March 2010

  • A proliferation of bathrooms

    08 Mar 2010 » 1 min read

    Nerd moment of the day:  I spent part of the afternoon today cleaning bathrooms.  In doing so, it occurred to me that bathrooms in the houses in which I have lived since summer 2002 have increased exponentially as a function to each move.  The chart below illustrates this: I started with 1 bathroom when I…

  • If you saw some duplicate posts…

    06 Mar 2010 » 1 min read

    If you happened to seem some notices for older posts being reposted on LiveJournal, it was a screw-up on my part.  I was attempting to import entries to my WordPress blog and forgot to turn off the LJ-reposter so that older posts were getting reposted as they were imported.  I think I stopped it before…

  • Two rejections before noon

    02 Mar 2010 » 1 min read

    I received two story rejections before noon today, and in some ways, they were oddly juxtaposed.  The first one was from a professional market to which I have never submitted before.  The rejection told me that the story made it past the first cut and went on to detail many of the good points of…

  • Writing update

    01 Mar 2010 » 2 min read

    With the first two months of 2010 in the record books, here is a brief update of my progress so far this year:   Jan Feb YTD Days worked  11  9  21 Words written  12,212  8,479  20,691 Stories completed  1  1  2 Stories submitted  2  1  3 Despite writing only 10 days in February, they…

  • A new post in the Adventures of the Little Zipper

    01 Mar 2010 » 1 min read

    People following our blog on the Adventures of the Little Zipper should head over there now to read about the latest developments.  But be warned:  this one’s a doozy.  If you don’t have access to the blog and would like to read it, send me and email and I’ll add you to the access list.