The funny thing about long online silences is, you don't intend your last post in ages to be your last post in ages. It just happens to be a snapshot of what's going on just before you're about to enter a time of not enough time/energy/brainwidth to keep updating ( Read more... )

The wonkiest thing happened this morning.

In lieu of ads at the train station, there were large posters from the European Commission. The contents, paraphrased: "You have RIGHTS. If you trip is turning to nightmare, contact the Commission at this URL or call this toll-free number."

Also, this morning, for the first time ever, the train ran early ( Read more... )

2011 was a good year for me as far as writing is concerned, in the sense that some got done, and some even got shared ( Read more... )

Train station bookstores generally come with very low expectations. Pick up a cheap paperback, stay vaguely entertained during your two hour ride, forget about it almost right afterward. So though the back cover blurb was somewhat intriguing, it wasn't with great expectations that I picked up this novel, 'Dragonsdawn', while waiting for a train a ( Read more... )

Sometimes it just amazes me that some easily theorized celestial bodies haven't had time to appear yet because our 15 billion year old universe is just way too young.

I don't know if I've mentioned it yet, but I'm sitting out NaNoWriMo ( Read more... )

As to why the weekend that came before the Week of Suck was awesome:


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My son just waddled up the stairs, turned the light on for me in the darkening room, and then trotted over to give me a little kiss on the arm.

It's the small things.

I've noted this weird thing about EF.

For some reason, the even-numbered ones always seem to work better for me than the odd-numbered ones. For instance, take this year: compared to last year, it was only super awesome ( Read more... )