Oh, the website/email troubles and woes I had, let me tell you. Down for hours at a time, day after day. NOT GOOD. DOUBLE PLUS UNGOOD.

So my brilliant web designer has begun the process of moving me off of Bluehost and into having my website and email hosted by Google-less than half the price AND I can keep my same email address (because I own this ( Read more... )

It’s good to be home again. Yes, we’ve been home for over a week; and yes, I haven’t told you anything about the rest of the Month On The Road Trip; but, yeah. Here we are.

Vancouver continued to be delightful. We walked a lot, and figured out the transit, and even figured out the driving-around. We figured out that sushi there is AMAZING and CHEAP ( Read more... )

Yes, there are other things besides New Nephew going on in my life.
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This just in: rare and precious photos of my Nephew Under Construction! (And his parents.)


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Monday started with my email being down, for hours, no explanation, no time estimate for it being fixed. And who-knows-how-many messages bounced back to their senders-I only know about the folks who wrote me on my gmail account (which I dislike and rarely use) to tell me their initial messages bounced.

Meh! Makes me look OH SO VERY PROFESSIONAL, ( Read more... )

Well that didn’t last long: got a new freelance job this morning.
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Okay so perhaps trying to blog at the very end of the day is not a thing that is happening.

Or maybe it’s the busy. I turned in a freelance job today, the last one I had in-house. (I mean the get-paid-upon-completion kind of freelance; not my editorial work. I have plenty of that!) The last time I didn’t have any freelance jobs in-house was early ( Read more... )

Oh, negligent blogger is negligent.

It was like I told you: dinner guests and house guests and a giant pile of freelance work and a novel to rewrite…and laundry and chores and going to the gym and, you know, life.

But I like blogging, I do-I think it’s grounding, perspective-izing. It’s good to stop a moment and reflect, rather than rushing ever ( Read more... )

Busy times around here-as usual! Workity work. I’m making slow but steady progress on Queen & Tower, as well as doing All The Proofreading.

But that didn’t prevent us from taking a few hours off last night to attend a fancy party-a launch party for our fellow book-grouper Daniel‘s new app, Mayday! Deep Space.

It was in a neighborhood that reminded us ( Read more... )

What a year it was! Mark and I feel like we completed the Seven Impossible Tasks, and now we’re sort of looking around, wondering what “normal life” looks like. Hahahhaa.

The year began with us in the middle of our three-month stint as replacement innkeepers at a lovely bed and breakfast on Orcas Island, and newly engaged. Orcas Island was amazing. ( Read more... )