sitting at work, forty-five minutes left to go. i've placed my orders, arranged my shipments for next week, made up all the shipping documents, caught up with my email inbox as much as i need to, and now comes the waiting game. dealing with issues as they arise, but mainly waiting for four o'clock. i've got a football game waiting for me, and a ( Read more... )

though it hasn't been, and won't be, as busy as some summers past, we are in the midst of the busy summer season. this weekend is the family reunion, so i've got friday off work. kelly has a doctor's appointment that morning early, and then (presuming we've already packed the car by that point, which, come to think of it, is a dubious assumption ( Read more... )

this year's critical was probably the best ever. in fact, i'm pretty sure that i'm still decompressing from it, and it was two and a half weeks ago now. it was at a new location, the mason county fairgrounds, one of the clearest advantages of which was being able to dance all night long. the past couple-few years at LARC, the cops had shut down ( Read more... )

busy busy, haven't been by in a while. tons of stuff to post about, but no time to do so. let's see, i officially published my book, 'summertime', (again), this time in softcover hard copy, and ordered twenty copies for myself. i've sold four or five of them so far, and have a bunch of other people who say they want one. so that's cool. i have ( Read more... )

i'm currently rereading stephen king's collection of four novellas, four past midnight. the first time i read it i was in seattle visiting my dad from illinois. i remember sitting on the floor in the bus tunnel going between his place in west seattle and my other parents' house on 65th. i may have read it again since then, not sure, but that ( Read more... )

something disturbingly interesting happened to me a while ago. it didn't end up being much in the way of substantive, but it was sure compelling while it lasted. ( wherein bakeme waxes long )

i'm wondering if i'm jumping plateaux with my playing. i've been playing a lot lately, writing songs, doing open mic once or even twice a week, and today when i was playing i felt a new-dawning mastery of the elements of my playing: the beat, the chord fingering, the dynamic variation, as well as my voice. it's as if i was doing all of those ( Read more... )

i did a really cool thing last night, something i've never done before. i attended and then performed at a book signing, at this anarchist book shop downtown at pike place. left bank books is the place, and alanna, the bartender and booker at conor byrne, invited me to do it. it started at 7, and since i knew there would be cocktails involved, ( Read more... )

i just had the oddest thought, with respect to how i want to portray the books that i've written to the world at large. my most common wont is to call them trashy romantic thrillers, which is almost over the top in the way of naked self-deprecation. someday i will aspire to a more uniformly modest and well-regulated address, but in the meantime i ( Read more... )

earlier tonight, after checking out the newly remodeled fred meyer we used to live across the street from, and dropping a bunch of cash, we passed a karate studio, and somehow i was inspired to think that i don't really want to be doing my job for too many more years. my company sells steel and iron castings to major equipment manufacturers, which ( Read more... )