Spent a good chunk of the evening searching for night light bulbs. I know I had several packages. They used to be on the top shelf of my desk, right beside the lamp, until we had to pack up my office for the roof re-framing. I thought they were in one of the boxes here at the house, but I've looked through them and couldn't find any ( Read more... )

This time last year, I was so excited about it finally being 2020, mostly because of a Saturday morning cartoon I loved when I was a little kid, which was set in the year 2020. At that time the year 2020 seemed impossibly far away, so actually attaining it was as much a milestone (if not more so) than the year 2000 had been ( Read more... )

Yesterday I had a good day on both the yard work and writing fronts. I pulled a bunch of the foxtails in the front yard, and I got my Odd Prompts and Indies Unlimited writing challenges done. I also did a new segment of Shepardsport Pirate Radio ( Read more... )

During the 2008 financial meltdown, Jerry Pournelle advised a friend who was having PTSD symptoms that the best way to deal with the situation was to make one's own personal space as clean and orderly as possible. At first it didn't seem to make sense -- it seemed like busywork, or even punishment -- but as the current crisis progresses, I see two ( Read more... )

I got my first spam comment over at Shepardsport Pirate Radio. Some dude praise-sandwiching a pitch for CBD oils as a preventative against COVID-19 ( Read more... )

This evening I got a text from the contractor, asking if I would be ready for them to come in tomorrow to do the roof. So I spend the whole evening scrambling to get everything boxed up -- and ran out of boxes. I'm hoping that I can get enough time that I can at least bag up the rest of the stuff that's out here before they need me out. They may at ( Read more... )

The repairs on our house have become Interesting, and not in a good way. After the mess on Saturday, our contractor has brought in another roofing contractor as a potential subcontractor (I get the impression from the man who's our contact in the field that he is very disappointed with the first company for not letting him know there was a dip in ( Read more... )

There's a new vignette challenge over at Sarah Hoyt's blog. My effort takes us back to Shepardsport, as Tara struggles to adjust to living in a lunar settlement.

Also, don't forget the Indies Unlimited Flash Fiction Writing Challenge and the More Odds than Ends writing challenge. Both have deadlines on Tuesday. I'm still struggling with mine, ( Read more... )

Both literally and figuratively. We got the new roof on the sunporch just in time for a heavy downpour this morning, so I thought we were in good shape. Then I got up this morning to hear a plink-plink-plink sound coming from the sunporch. I go back to discover that we have water dripping from the ceiling onto the floor ( Read more... )

After yesterday's absolutely horrible weather in which our poor little home took such a beating, it might seem that I wouldn't have much to be grateful for on Thanksgiving Day. But what happened was probably the least bad way it could've played out, especially considering that I was sitting on the sunporch when it happened, since that is my office ( Read more... )