It's time again for one of my occasional posts in which I attempt to signal-boost for friends and family who have fundraisers or creative projects that are crowd-funding, as well as projects I just believe in. This is under the assumption that there are people who read my livejournal who don't also follow me on Twitter or Facebook, where I signal- ( Read more... )

Over a month since my last post, and that was the last in my attempts to catch up on the book blogging. I'm about to try to write my first television episode review of the fall season (having failed to review the one summer tv series I watched, "Finding Carter," as well as having failed to review any of the first four episodes of the new season of ( Read more... )

And off I go on the road again, after barely a week home (thanks to weather-related travel shenanigans that stranded me in Nashville for an extra day last week, and which I never remembered to write up on this here blog o' mine ( Read more... )

So a while back, when my friend Bryan Thomas Schmidt's Kickstarter for the Raygun Chronicles SF anthology was struggling, I announced that IF the project hit full funding in the final 24 hours of the campaign, I would record myself singing a Justin Bieber song ( Read more... )

I haven't posted a personal update here since March 3. A lot happened during my two weeks on the road, but as I need to be heading to bed, here's the gist of how the past two days have gone:

Travel home this weekend had an interesting glitch.

First, I got a call around midnight Friday night from my car service saying the driver was waiting at ( Read more... )

Time just flies by ( Read more... )

I see that I already blogged about the first half of the weekend (Thanksgiving Day and the day after).

Saturday morning I tried to work on my sister's multi-game table a bit more, had limited success, and then my niece and I got in the car and headed to NJ. Hit some sleet flurries (if that's a term) on the way.  We spent a good portion of the ( Read more... )

Had a very nice holiday with the family. Picked up my sister & the kids and went to my Aunt & Uncle's house, as we always do. Cousins Lauren & Tim and their kids were there, as always, and my Uncle's mother. Food was good. I made my second attempt at making pumpkin soup. I'm not sure it came out quite as well as it did when I made the first batch ( Read more... )

It's only been four days since my last non-book-review entry? A record ( Read more... )

Amazed once again at how fast half a month flies by between entries for me. Life on the road, and all that ( Read more... )