pet pictures
Christmas is quickly upon us
We got our tree up, so here are some festive fictures to put you in a seasonal mood.
about the blog
Page Proofs + Rewrite + Bathroom Remodel = No Blog Post For You
Overwhelmed with work and such so blogging will be intermittent for November while I scramble to get stuff done. I may blog a bit before Thanksgiving, if time permits, but no promises.
rants
Attempted Vehicular Homicide
In 1983 Steven King wrote the novel Chistine, about a car that was possessed. A vehicle that was, in essence, evil. I now realize that Mr. King, more than likely, owned at one point a vehicle much like my 96 Ford F-150. Like some people, some vehicles just seem to Read more…
real life
No time to blog. . .
Spent blogging time trying to revive my mom’s PC, unfortunately, the patient died. I’m going to bequeath her my PC’s old brain, in a new case. (Actually an old case, my wife’s defunct Compaq 🙂
appearances
The children did not eat me
All in all the class yesterday was a success, I manged to avoid choking, and I actually interacted with human beings who did not exist when I started writing professionally. More important, I think I did manage to get a few things across. It helps that we had a smart Read more…
appearances
Off to class
Running off to try and teach a bunch of 14-year-olds about action scenes. Wish me luck.
real life
And how to do customer service right
After my post eviscerating Lowe’s (In particular, the Lowe’s at 24500 Miles Road in Bedford Heights) I thought it might be a good thing to illustrate a counter-example. Last night, me and my wife ventured to the Regal Cinema in Cleveland Heights to watch a satellite broadcast of Glen Beck’s Read more…
real life
For fellow writers and those in Texas
I recently received a donation request from the Fandom Association of Central Texas. Since it’s for a good cause, in addition to sending them a few titles of mine, I thought I’d pimp it here on the blog. If you’re a writer, consider shipping them some donations. If you’re a Read more…
asshat
Wherin I bitch about lousy customer service
If you are thinking about visiting a big box home-improvement store, let us say for an example, the Lowe’s at 24500 Miles Road in Bedford Heights, Ohio, and you are, again let us say for an example, third in line at the checkout in the garden center, you might expect Read more…
photos
Building the new PC
I happen to have a homebrew PC on my desktop:
Looks cool, but was beginning to seriously feel its age. (It would slow down if you put a Vista install disk in the same room.) So I bought a new motherboard and and chip for it.
Here were prepping for surgery:
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