I don't want anyone to be horribly shocked by this but I'm not a big football fan. In fact, I', not much of a big Any-type-of-sports fan. I enjoy hockey upon occasion, but I rarely watch an entire game and I sure as hell don't drop everything whenever a game is on. the point in this is that although I wandered over to Amb's house today while the ( Read more... )

Do any of you guys have a task that you absolutely hate doing? For me, it's cleaning the shower. I don't mind cleaning the bathroom, but the shower makes me cringe. I don't actually know the last time I cleaned it for real. Most of the time I do this half-assed job that probably doesn't actually clean it at all. The moral of this story is that ( Read more... )

I've got the whole Halloween party thing going on today. I shanghaied jenah, kimbrchick and malkovich03 for an afternoon/evening of food, movies and fun. We watched Predators and Predator because after watching the Adrien Brody movie, we had a hankering for the original. Plus, Kim had never seen the original and, well, it's just a good movie. Now we're watching ( Read more... )

Yo! I had a ebook talk-thing, or maybe they referred to it as an e-publishing seminar, at the Morgan Hill library that I was planning on going to tonight. Then I found out that Rachel Caine (author of the outstanding Morganville Vampires series) was going to be doing a signing in Palo Alto, which is about 45 minutes away from where I live. So I ( Read more... )

I had a really fun birthday. Today I slept in (OMG! DID YOU HEAR THAT?!?!), ate, had cake, opened presents and did all the other things that one generally does on their birthday ( Read more... )

Hailey's been running a fever all day today and she was throwing up last night. Yet, she was still willing to play at her soccer game this morning. The amazing thing? She scored a goal even while feeling poorly. What a girl! So since she played at her game, I did an extended Zombie Watch that carried over to our trip to the pumpkin patch ( Read more... )

I have had an insanely productive day. If by "insanely productive" I mean a day that's all about books. As many of them have been lately. But before I get into that ... PICTURES ( Read more... )

Oh, Twitter. You and I have become such good friends since I bought my smart phone. Now I can post stupid and annoying pictures of myself doing things that no sane person would normally do at all hours of the day and night. I can take pictures of my shoes and socks and fingerless gloves. You never mock me for doing this, Twitter, and for that I ( Read more... )

Okay, guys. I did it. I printed out my unedited manuscript for a read-through/first-pass edit. This is just to catch all the glaring errors, whether they're grammatical, plot or whatever. I'll be taking notes while I'm reading to patch up any major plot holes and to smooth out whatever rough edges I run across ( Read more... )

Damn, it was hot today. There was sweat. And a blazing sun. I didn't enjoy it. Tomorrow it's supposed to be up over 100F. Fuuuuuck.

I did do some Zombie watching when I dragged the kids out to the Taste of Morgan Hill this morning. I looked for Zombies, but I only found Hailey and ColeOh, and I might have gone shopping at the Halloween store ( Read more... )