Archive for July, 2006
Both my desk and inbox are clean. The first week of using Backpack is over. It’s actually a pretty powerful program – providing you keep up on it. Just finished reading another Ender book, Speaker For The Dead. Now that I’ve read the parallel novels (Shadow of the Hegemon,) I see the Ender novels a [...]
Found a programming error on my website. Seems my random short story links on the left were incorrect. I’ve fixed them. Now to find something else to distract me from the possibility of losing my lunch. (Yes, the flu my wife had last week has finally worked its way to me. Blech.)
My latest obsession . . . Things at work are changing (mixed bag, both for the better and the worse.) I’m literally taking over the department as our previous operational supervisor has moved to a different department. Better for me physically, but I hate phones. LOL Now that I’m managing all sorts of crap, I [...]
Hel, lazy month, too. Slept ten and a half hours last night. Didn’t even get up every couple of hours as is my wont. Then I took a two hour nap later in the morning. Not sure what the deal is; the last few days at work have been blissfull as far as the lack [...]
To Hakan Aydin, the man who created the WordPress theme I’m using as the basis for my site. After weeks of fighting and fuming on my part, and weeks of being slammed with emails on his, we finally connected so he could help me through a slight hurdle. You’ll note that there’s a bar above [...]
Watched some doomsday show on the SciFi Channel a few nights ago. Pseudo-documentary about the different ways the world will end. One of them got me to thinking: Gamma ray bursts happen once a day in the universe, so far only recorded in galaxies other than ours. If we were to have one ‘in our [...]
While answering an email, I might have inadvertently come across the reason my production has slowed down so much. . . Outlining. Up until I began writing the Sanguire series, I didn’t do it. At least not much more than to figure out what should be in the next chapter. I responded to a mailing [...]
Wouldn’t you know it? Two days after I leave town, I get an email from my publisher. Someone wrote to them because my contact form was wacky on my site. It’s since been corrected. I’ve had to place the ‘send’ button early. For some reason, WordPress pages doesn’t accept the ‘/textarea’ programming . . . [...]
Finally! Needless to say, we arrived in Portland seven hours late. Good thing I didn’t have to work this morning! I’d have been dead on my feet! Still got the unpacking to do. Spent yesterday hooking up to my beloved internet (I’d mainline it in a hot second,) and reassuring our cats that we’re here [...]
On the train. They called us at home before we left Portland to inform us our train would be leaving at 9:30am instead of 10:15am. Good thing we got to the station so early! Whew! We only had to wait the entire extra hour we were there so the train could leave at . . [...]
Last day in Anaheim. Laundry done, packing complete, my buddy and I finally headed out to some bookstores. Found a cool one about the great influenza attack in the early 1900s. Also picked up the Star Trek Encyclopedia for research. (I’m on a Trek RPG list. Going to the Trek Experience fired me up!)
