Sorry if you folks on my friends list saw an especially miserable entry recently, I've not had a clear head for some time due to a number of things and I wound up venting about it more than I probably should have (yes, I know, since it's my blog, I can post what I like, but still, one has to put limits on how much you vent, otherwise, it turns into ( Read more... )

Still not in the best frame of mind, and honestly, if people want to stir up crap or be involved in stirring up crap, I know the perfect place for them: retail from November to January. Honestly, I'm tinkering with ideas for stories involving fanits being shown what-for after causing kerfuffles; any prompts are welcome, if anyone has anything they' ( Read more... )

Writing day today, and I decided to head out to do that. Went to Perfecto's Cafe, next door to where I work, and settled in to finish writing the King in Yellow story I've been hacking away at for some weeks now. The shop was fairly quiet, and the clerks there didn't seem to mind my being there, so I hung around for the better part of an hour and a ( Read more... )

Various errands today: bank stuff, money to be withdrawn and moved around (new teller at the bank: very cheery and friendly but also very precise; everything one could want in a bank teller!), cans to be cashed in at the store, had to write in my hours (keep fingers crossed that I keep getting a reasonable amount of hours, no more of this cut hours ( Read more... )

Icon should be "You. Out of my house." More rodents rampaging in my walls. Barely got three hours of sleep, and I had to be up early for Mass. The wretched things seem to instinctively know when I need to get up early. Thank heavens Father Rizzo has a loud, penetrating (as he would call it "Sicilian") voice, I had no trouble staying awake. Dad has ( Read more... )

Okay, okay, I really didn't have to deal with the undead rampaging in the Salem Barnes & Noble: that was just me joining in a collective impersonation of Orson Welles when he trolled an entire radio audience with his production of H.G. Wells's "The War of the Worlds", only with blogging about zombies instead of broadcasting fake radio news reports ( Read more... )

I know, that likely sounds like a weird entry from Texts From Last Night, but it's true. Went to an estate sale after Mass, and as he and I rooted around in the basement of the old house where the sale took place, I noticed a grating and a wooden slide in the door to the workshop/tool room where my dad searched for old tools and things. It didn't ( Read more... )

As in I am out of spoons for the day ( Read more... )

A quiet day today, and I needed it after all the busy-ness and errand-running and with all the tiredness I've had to deal with because of same and because of lingering post-illness tiredness. I think it's finally letting up, though it might just be the amount of green tea I've been drinking as a countermeasure to ye tired. Spent much of the day ( Read more... )

Went searching for some of my old writing, back from my MMORPG-playing days and... was dismayed to find that the two sites that carried my work are no longer extant. This is a bit disheartening: I'm well aware of the transitory nature of the Internet, that sites come and go like Las Vegas hotels or casinos. But still, it's not unlike being an ( Read more... )