I've been debating for a while moving to a wordpress.org blog, so that I could put it on my main site and avoid the annoying ads, and just made the switch.  From now on you can find me over there.  I'll leave this one up for a while, at least, but won't be updating here.

I've gotten all of the old posts moved over, and most of the comments are ( Read more... )

I have a neurological condition that causes simple things, like walking, to require actual thought on my part.  Walking also, more often than not, causes fairly significant pain.  The same condition, unfortunately, also affects my arms and my stamina.  So everywhere I go, I'm left with a difficult decision:  Which ambulatory aids will serve me best ( Read more... )

I could have sworn I blogged about this a year or two ago, and I went looking today to find the blog entry so I could repost it, but alas, no luck.

Since I can't find the entry I guess I'll just write a new one. I've been reading a lot of fairy tales lately, so I thought I'd try my hand at a bit of (groan-worthy, I'm sure) creative writing...

Once ( Read more... )

So many things in this life can blind us to the reality around us.   We miss the faults in the one we're in love with, we miss the good in the ones we hate; greed, evny or ambition can blind us to those we hurt around us, or the happiness we miss out on by barreling through life; an eye patch on a good eye can correct it's lazy counterpart, ( Read more... )

If you're a science fiction writer, beware ( Read more... )

I've been pretty sick for the past few days and the date snuck up on me.  Rather than try to pick a chartiy at the last minute without any research I'm going to take another day or two before I post.  If you have suggestions please leave them ( Read more... )

This is the $5 on 5 post for February.  If you don't already know what this is about, please check this post for a full description of what I'm doing here and why.


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A friend on Twitter started doing  Random Tip Tuesday posts and I thought it was a great idea, so I'm being all rude and being a copy cat  I'm sharing a tip of my own today.  I'll not do this anymore, I feel bad already, I'm sorry.  You should go read hers.

In any case, my parents are good about coming up with the most bizarre suggestions, and this ( Read more... )

I'm a little late posting this one today,  due to a doctor's appointment, my crappy memory, and an inability to plan properly, but hopefully I'm not too late to enlist a few people.

If you don't already know what this is about, please check last month's post for a full description of what I'm doing here and why.


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I've been trying to get a good recording of this song for a while.

My crappy recording setup means that I can only use something if I can record the entire song all the way through without any screw-ups... ever tried to do that?!  It's hard.  And half the time when I do manage, I go back to edit and find I forgot to actually hit "record", arg!

In ( Read more... )