Funny how a character can lurk in your mind for so long. I still have Rothwell living there quite happily, and making a lot of activity of late. I'll have to consider making new episodes. The only thing that may prevent me is time, but we shall see...

I got extremely frustrated with the LJ writing community I am part of, and had to walk away, cold, for a bit to keep from getting stressed and ticked off at trying to flog people into doing something that should be a fun and relaxing activity. I was tired of being one of the very few checking in and making an effort to keep people informed, and ( Read more... )

I've had this character and his stories in mind nearly every day, and haven't posted. Maybe it's all milling about until it falls into a particular order. Maybe I got slowed down by the block in the Tortuga community, where his future is being played out. Who knows! But I'm not gone.

Just musing.

Because I can, I have the time to type, and I want to remind myself that I can and have the time to type.

Stories are still waiting to be told, after all.

Stay tuned!

My god, I can't believe how difficult life got for a short spate of time. I had a bit of hiatus from the internet and pretty much everything else I considered fun - almost a month.

Illnesses, dead computer, and the S*** hitting the fan at work with some folks getting investigated by the feds...

Yeah, I'm sorry everyone, I really didn't die. I HOPE ( Read more... )

I don't know why I didn't think to post these pictures and a link to my LJ. So here goes.

These were taken on a past trip to Portsmouth. I'm not a great cameraman so apologies all around for the blurriness and bad angles. But still, it's the Victory, so it's cool.

Still uploading pictures here, so check it out a few times to get them all:

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I am definitely not bothering with the third movie. Without going into an extreme level of detail, the info given out by an official book on the market was enough to tell me all I needed to know. If you want to attend the movie with a completely blank slate, don't read under the cut.

They completely threw the mood of the first movie out forever, ( Read more... )

I'm the luckiest guy in the world ( Read more... )

So a good friend of mine who is a brilliant musician and a professional harpsichord repairer/tuner gave the little red virginal a tuneup. It sounds great and one of the sticky keys has relaxed, though it will need new strings on the upper end soon. I'm finally sounding good on it because I've practiced pretty much every day. Once I figure out how, ( Read more... )

With typical Naval practicality, Rothwell was given orders to set sail past Tortuga with all speed. Having nearly all of the available squadron in one location was not a good idea, naturally, and he rather preferred getting back out to sea after all the most unpleasant time spent on shore of late.

However, he did hope to see Lt. Watts. He was just a ( Read more... )