When last I posted way at the other end of this surprisingly long February, I had a job, and a potential house.  Since then, Tara and I have packed up, gone to a convention, moved across two and a half-states, and settled in at my parents’ house until we can get our San Diego house sold.

We actually started packing in late January, with the ( Read more... )

For the few people who only see my updates from my blog (or LiveJournal which mirrors my blog), here are a couple of updates on my life:

1: I have a new job.  I will be working at and for the Air Force Weapons Laboratory at Kirtland Air Force Base in (just south of) Albuquerque.  I don’t have a start date yet because they need to finish at least ( Read more... )

This morning, I was called into a meeting with my bosses boss.  As soon as he asked for the meeting, I was pretty sure what the meeting was about, and I was right.  I have been given a sixty day notice that my job is being eliminated.  I am getting generous severance package, and Qualcomm is providing outplacement services which I plan on taking ( Read more... )

For much of the year, and into last year, I have been (was) taking music lessons.  First voice lessons and then piano lessons.  Of the two, the voice lessons have been more successful.  However, those ended in the spring when my instructor moved away and I’ve not resumed them with a new instructor - at least not yet.
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Note: This post was drafted back when I was actually reading through the various Hugo Award Finalists (and then voting on a category by category basis). It was hidden until after the awards were announced (or should have been announced - I'm counting on the ceremony to start on time and run less than two-and-a-half hours) as I'm part of the 2015 ( Read more... )

First, a proposal I’m very tempted to tack onto B.1.4:

I move to amend B.1.4 by adding {somewhere} “provided that the Hugo Award Subcommittee of a Worldcon can elect to continue the previous process of counting nominations until one of the following conditions is met:
- A prior Worldcon has used the revised method.
- They have received and accepted ( Read more... )

For a moment, let’s pretend that I’m somehow made, simultaneously, into both the President and the entirety of congress, here are some of the radical ideas I’d have - which probably go to show how far reality has pushed me from my former libertarian-ish views.

1. Progressive tax reform - reinstate the higher tax brackets starting at either $1,000,000. ( Read more... )

Albuquerque’s Nob Hill neighborhood’s major business district is along Central Avenue - which carried Route 66 from 1937 until it was decommissioned - stretching from Washington Boulevard on the east to Girard on the west.


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I'm reposting here two posts that went initially to Facebook and Google+, one from October 25, and the other from October 26 ( Read more... )

For the last week or so, I’ve been dabbling with writing.  I’m not resuming As of Yet Unnamed Fantasy Story.  Instead, I’m working on something that I doubt I’ll be sharing (or at least sharing broadly and publically) for personal reasons.

However, doing this has brought a couple general things up that I’m going to share:

I’ve been using Scrivener ( Read more... )