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In light of years of bullshit in my journal, and, finally, of my spending two hours yesterday when I got home responding to petty horseshit instead of caring for my newborn daughter, I have created these rules for my journal, in the interest of helping all those who mean as well as burninginwater.

ROBERT'S JOURNAL RULES

1. Assume that Robert is interested ( Read more... )

There is a certain freelance editor on Facebook who does very well, and good for him. He lives off his editing. He thinks he is a great editor, and others think he is a great editor. I do not think he is a great editor. I own a book he edited, and I found so many errors in it I could hardly believe someone paid him to edit it. He and I ( Read more... )

My birthday is March 8, and to celebrate, I have decided to lower the prices of all my books to the lowest levels that Amazon will allow.

Cagey and 2 Others: $5.99
The Recovery: $5.99
Gentle Tara and the Butter-Fly Ride: $4.99
Gentle Tara and the Bloodstone Locket: $3.99 ( Read more... )

My wife and I are moving from the United States to Saipan in three weeks. (I am the only man in America who just got a teaching job. The problem is it's not in America!) We are looking into quarantining one of our two cats, whom we have had for eight years. We very much need to find a new home for the other, whom we just got last year (August ( Read more... )

As you know, I write letters of praise all the time, because I feel very strongly that good work should be acknowledged. I feel equally strongly that bad work should be. As a result, I am posting this letter everyplace I can, and this is my first public entry in a long time ( Read more... )

This afternoon I wanted to post about something that happened today, but, suffering paranoid delusions as I do, I decided I didn't feel comfortable posting about it in my journal, due to fear of someone taking it and behaving maliciously. That is no way to live, so I came to a radical solution: my biggest friends purge ever! I decided to ( Read more... )

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Last night's supper at the Bridgeport Ale House, which we realised was only our second, was very good. Joe and Nev are good company, and we had a great time talking to them about New Orleans, the Northwest, family politics, Bush, religion, parking courtesy, food, and LiveJournal. Today we hike with them!


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A 50-inch water main break left the city without drinkable water, and the massive power outages caused by the storm are likely to take at least three or four weeks to repair ( Read more... )