This was the year that 4th Street Fantasy became the premier dark fantasy convention in the Midwest. ...That would be because all the lights went out, and power wasn't restored at the hotel for a couple (?) of days. The summer solstice storm of 2013 hit the Twin Cities area hard, leaving 500,000 households without power, uprooting trees, flooding ( Read more... )

• Torn between stories. One has greater Awesome, other's more genre/gender-twisting and a better match for a higher-paying anthology. Ngg.
• Dear Strib: "Don't Like the Weather? Too Bad" headline = not encouraging!
• Small victories (now with zombies): ping.fm/wfcj5
• Torn between a Droid and a Nexus. Pretty sure I want a keyboard, but--shiny vs. shinier!

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• Ice pellets? That doesn't sound like a friendly form of precipitation.
• Don't like working extra days at day job. OTOH, 9:30AM start time seems almost humane.

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• 00:09 Thunderstorms every day 'til Friday = no biking to work = all knee exercises in the evening = no free time.

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• 13:29 Everything is spangled with raindrops outside right now. It's a great time to take photos. I'm keeping an eye out for the golden hour. #
• 13:32 Randomly acquired a candy garter, which I'm planning on giving to a friend, but am tempted to keep for myself. #
• 13:59 One of the people I was to interview today neglected to show up. Or provide any ( Read more... )

Finished (for varying values of finished) proofreading test, spent rest of evening curled up on sofa feeling vaguely ill/depressed/tired/other. Skipped routine household tasks and martial arts class, which I felt less bad about once the tornado warnings and End of Days weather started. Started feeling better right around time to go to bed (now). ( Read more... )

You know you're in Minnesota when it's 10 degrees outside, and you think, "Wow! It's wonderful that it's so warm!"

And then throughout the day everybody is commenting on how warm it is.

Mostly everyday stuff--cold, work, snowpants, Roomba love, and the cat calamity that I blogged about earlier this week.

( Summary of the Week )

Today, I called in "cold" to work. Yeah. Well, not actually--actually I just said that I'd come in tomorrow instead of today. This whole "cold weather really messes with me" phenomenon is very inconvenient. I'm already worried that Job #2 will see me as being "unreliable", because I have to schedule around Job #1 (which hasn't needed me for a ( Read more... )

The Very Mean Mad Scientist declared that if I went to Tae Soo Do Saturday sparring class, it would be so late (1:45) before we were ready to go anywhere that I couldn't go to Cahoots to work on writing and work stuff that requires high-speed internet access. Very Mean. Also, meaning that I earn no money today. Of course, he redeemed himself by ( Read more... )