Made a bit more progress with the Big Bang art. Have lots of meetings to look forward to this month. Most of them related to the nonprofit corp, but some others ( Read more... )

The Tarot Meetup for the holiday ROCKED. We had a trading faire at which I acquired some sweet new items, and got rid of a few that were no longer useful for me. We also did some fabulous spreads - reading for each other as part of exercises is always really exciting and energizing. And I did some public reading, too, basically interpreting for ( Read more... )

So Nanowrimo season approaches (I'm zephrene on those forums, if anybody is interested), and with it the write-ins and writing challenges roll in ( Read more... )

Have I been living under a rock? (Answer: yes, but anyway.) How did I not know that Ridley Scott was remaking Robin Hood with Russell Crowe and Cate Blanchett?  That is, like, cinema gold right there.  Guarantee of my attendance, pretty much, and I don't go to the cinema very often (ok, barring Star Trek. But that doesn't really count ( Read more... )

This is actually not so much a report as a Yay! Photos! post, with occasional commentary. That link goes to my Flickr set, which will in turn sometimes sync up to the Azkatraz Flickr Pool.
Here's my Mug Shot:

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I think I need to make blogging a daily habit, although I'm using Twitter a lot more now that it's part of my job ( Read more... )

Here I am at my lunch break, thinking that I have not been doing much blogging lately ( Read more... )

I have been caught in a vortex of never-ending meetings/meetups since last week. Not a bad thing necessarily, just so incredibly busy.  And I run from work to class or other meetings or to run important family errands and suddenly my to-do list is a mile longer than usual and I am just tired.But today is Watercolor class and after that there is ( Read more... )

Last night I did a presentation for the Houston Science Fiction Writers' Meetup on writing software.  Here is a brief review of the products we covered, with notes. ($ means you have to buy it.  $$ and $$$ mean you have to shell out a larger chunk of cash than for shareware.) YMMV, please feel free to comment if you can elaborate or have used one ( Read more... )

...means that all the Halloween fabric is on sale!
Kim and I met for dinner and a costume meetup business meeting last night at Te House of Tea, then we visited Joann and discovered a wealth of beautiful fabric with skull motifs.  Skulls!  Skull and crossbones!  Skulls in Burning Agony!  Skulls with mohawks!  Rainbow skulls!  Reflective skulls!  ( Read more... )