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But What Is The Alternative?

I was a pre-teen in the seventies, which means that long before I hit the jaded age of fourteen when older men tried to use it to get me to peel off clothes, I was used to hearing “we’re all naked under clothes.” (Later on I greatly regretted most of these idiots hadn’t read Heinlein so I couldn’t say “nul program.” So instead I had to say things like “We’re also all clean under our dirt, so I see you don’t intend to shower ever again.”)

There were other just as crazy aphorisms that pas...

There is a Tide in the Affairs….

When I was fourteen, my parents took me on the first vacation I remember having, and dad and I went rock climbing.

Okay, it wasn’t that formal. It is that since I was six or so, our way of enjoying the beach was to walk by the ocean, and that kind of morphed into climbing cliffs because the sea shore in the North of Portugal is very rocky. (Mom liked just sitting with her friends and talking or knitting (on a beach!) but I’ve never done well at sitting still. Even with a book, I preferre...

Tell Me, Sir, Do you Kiple?

*Let’s face it, if this bunch did high tea, it might very well look like that.

At any rate, I FINALLY have a repaired dryer (long story) and therefore I need to do some quick cleaning I haven’t done in two weeks, and change my sheets and towels, so the auto immune attack will stop ramping up. (Probably cat hair, to be fair.) So, I leave you to a guest post by Mr. Kipling. It’s time. It’s been a while. And heaven knows these are rounding outside the door – SAH*

The Gods of the Copybook...

Men – and Women — of Iron A Blast From the Past from March 8 2016

*If you want to skip the part where I argue with myself you can. Frankly that reads nutty even to me. Then again I was mid the third of three interim moves when selling the last house, my life was in boxes, and I was quite ill, so…
In other news, I finally set up a newsletter, after a year or two of fighting with a service I thought would work but didn’t. I promise to write/post at least twice a week, and this will be strictly about my fiction. There will be occasional freebies, opportunities to ...

The Certainty of the Sheep

This wasn’t the post I was going to write this morning. Though I only had an hazy idea of the post I was going to write.

Then I wrote my weekly post at Mad Genius Club.

(I normally do them at night, but last night I was madly securing my various accounts, since the flaming crazy attempted to break in again. Btw, it must be sad. Because it stopped to send nasty emails that s/h/it thought would get me in trouble, it was five minutes too late on the attempt to download all my emails. So, ...

I meant to write a post, I did

And then the new cat box got delivered. This is a big production because for years now we’ve used Litter Robot. It started with Pixie who was the best cat ever, except if the box wasn’t cleaned ten times a day he’d find an interesting place to go. We tried litter-maid but it didn’t last. Then we got litter robot. These last, except for the one before last which was a lemon and conked out at 5 years. Not that it completely broke, it just would go through weeks when it didn’t work.

I finally...

Update and Errata

Okay, first an update on the …. not even identity theft, more of a stealing my phone number and using it for evil sh*t situation.

First let me reiterate that while I DO use hotmail, I’m not stupid. That’s my public email, not my FINANCIAL anything email. Even the buffered paypal (the account it’s linked to is used only for non-trusted web sites, okay?) goes through an email I never put out in public.

A lot of you also yelled at me about hotmail, but in fact the hotmail security is the ...

Book Promo And Vignettes by Luke, Mary Catelli and ‘Nother Mike.

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Things Moving Along

So, things are moving along, both with figuring out the phone thing and ensuring it doesn’t happen again, and…. House stuff I can’t do getting done…. and….

Everything is moving except me. I’ve done a whole lot of nothing today. Not sure why. Just low on batteries or something.

Going to try to finish some writing.

Just don’t want you guys to worry. I’m okay. I am busy, just not doing much about what I should be doing. Sort of unintentionally vegging because it’s proving too hard to ma...

Getting Their Horns Caught In The Thicket

I read somewhere between amusement and horror that the Biden administration wants THE WORLD to create a worldwide corporate tax, to “alleviate poverty” and so that “everyone pays their fair share.”

Of course the reasons they give are nonsense. There might be some idiots who believe them, but by and large they’re nonsense.

And then I realized why they wanted this, and I started to cackle.

Seriously, guys, they have their horns caught in the thicket.

Rams get their horns caught in...