At the first official Sacramento NaNoWriMo party this past weekend, we held a little art contest. Participants were invited to draw their Inner Editors (you know what that is: the Inner Editor is that voice inside that tells you everything you’re writing is crap and needs to be redone now). You can see the entrants [...]
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I’ve been quiet lately, haven’t I? Between selling our house and all the sundry events that go along with that (checks written and cashed, final inspection reports read and responded to, etc., etc.), getting ready for National Novel Writing Month (and don’t forget to sponsor me, of course), and a massive upgrade of Moodle at [...]
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Halloween party at the neighbors’ house. I’m a tad wasted. WHee! #
Getting ready for today’s NaNoWriMo party! #
I’m such a doofus. #
@katster: what’s up? #
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Just saw the newest trailer for "I Am Legend". I am intrigued, despite myself. #
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@katster: and rightly so #
@dhemery does it have to be a Biblical quote? #
xml-rpc is going to be the death of me, I can tell #
When it comes to PHP, I am not the bad ass I thought I was. Can I get a job reading horror books for a living? #
Or maybe watching [...]
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Escrow closed.
Escrow freakin’ closed!!!
WE HAVE OFFICIALLY SOLD THE DIXON HOUSE!
Not only that, we actually made money from the sale. Kind of a rare thing, apparently, in this day and age.
Needless to say, we’re pretty excited. Jennifer’s looking forward to a new kitchen. I’m looking forward to my stomach no longer churning whenever I think about [...]
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@dhemery: test successful, though the blog post returned a 404 #
@dhemery: so… maybe less than thoroughly successful, I suppose #
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To be honest, I’d forgotten that I’d entered the WritersWeekly Fall 2007 Short Story Contest. I’d entered as a lark, a way to spend a weekend in solidarity with my friend Ray Solberg and her friend John Goodrich. It was fun, but I thought my story, "In the Living Room, a Painting", was rather weak [...]
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Thanks to my friend Katster, I’ve located a WordPress plugin to integrate my blog with Twitter. Because, you know, that’s what you all want me to do. The only issue I’m having is a wee problem with the Twitter Tools plugin finding the table in my database where my category names are kept. For some [...]
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Listening to Dire Straits "Brothers in Arms" album. It’s been at least twenty years since I’ve heard it, and I still know most of the s … #
@TeeMonster: Ping #
Got chocolate cake. I shouldn’t but I did. And now I’m gonna eat it, dammit. #
"Pushing Daisies" picked up for a full season. Huzzah! [...]
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December 31, 2009 is when I turn 42. That’s a significant age for us second-wave nerds (kids these days… would you believe I encountered recently a kid who called himself a "nerd" but who had no idea what the significant of 42 is?).
<Jigsaw voice>There will be festivities…</Jigsaw voice>
Anyway, I wanted a big blow out for [...]
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I’ve been sitting on this for awhile. A couple of people have seen it, but most of the world has not.
This is the illustration that will accompany my short story, "A Most Heinous Man", in the December issue of Andromeda Spaceways Inflight Magazine. Today I got permission from the editor and the illustrator to post [...]
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What if Richard III had access to the Internet? What would he blog (or vlog) about?
One of the reasons why Shakespeare will always be popular is that his characters are essentially timeless. Romeo and Juliet succeeds not just because it’s a great story, full of drama and romance and what-not, but also because every teenager [...]
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The current draft of The Solitude of the Tentacled Space Monster is at 83,523 words. About 9,000 words longer than the first draft. I’ve started Chapter Seventeen and I can see lots of places where I need to make fixes already. I had been hoping to finish this draft before NaNoWriMo starts; we’ll see if [...]
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Monday:Chuck hasn’t yet caught me. I’ve stopped recording it on our DVR and have been watching it online at NBC’s website. I’m not entirely sure what it is about this show that’s bugging me. Maybe it’s just that it’s geared more for gaming nerds than nerds like me, those that I sort of think of [...]
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