A proliferation of bathrooms

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…

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

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

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

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.