Last Saturday I got to go to a book-signing involving 5 authors local to my area, my friend Paul Genesse, an acquaintance Larry Correia (author of Monster Hunter International that I mentioned a few posts back), and 3 authors I'd not met before, John Brown whose first book was released Tuesday, Jessica Day George, and Mette Ivie HarrisonThere are a ( Read more... )

I enjoy October for a number of reasons. Generally, September is a fairly heavy allergy month for me, and, while I still have troubles, they diminish in October. It's also when harvest type foods become quite big-- apples and pumpkins, for instance, which leads to more pies ( Read more... )

since I've done one of these. I don't know why most of my video postings seem to be of Firefly, but here's another one I stumbled across.

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Not sure I can pick a favorite as so many are good, but I'll give a nod to "HONESTY is appreciated. Not, you know, a lot."

My work has been so hectic lately that I've been doing a lot of drive-thru/to-go lunches that I eat at my desk while I work. Today's another such day and I realized, it's kind of sad that I've been doing so many of them, that nothing really sounds good, considering how much there is within a mile of me ( Read more... )

Sorry no cool quote to start this one off-- it's too early on a Monday for my brain to be firing on all gears ( Read more... )

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So the last couple of weeks ragweed and sagebrush have been pollinating quite heavily. Both of which I'm quite strongly allergic to. I've been having fairly severe allergy problems for about 2 and a half weeks now. This entails going through tissues like mad, an inability to stay properly hydrated as all the fluid runs out my nose, and eating 3500 ( Read more... )

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"Of shoes and ships and sealing wax, of cabbages and kings ( Read more... )

Makes one surly, and have blood-shot eyes ( Read more... )