Sarah A. Hoyt's Blog, page 207

Stopping The Fifth Column

Trump ordered a strike back against terrorists responsible for the death of Americans and others. The left lost its mind. Film at eleven.

I had a spectacularly bad night (there’s a uri working itself through the family. Yes, I HAVE had the flu vaccine and I actually urge you to. It’s a poor match to this year’s strain, but it offers SOME protection, and this year’s strain is deadly.) and woke up at four AM and couldn’t go back to sleep, so even the ADD meds are ineffective for getting me to...

Rats in their Heads – a blast from the past from April 2013

*Sorry, I was going to put this up much earlier and it was to be an original post. BUT I woke up too late. I’m going to blame Greebo. Since he came back from treatment, he’s been very clingy (And yes, he’s gaining weight back, let’s hope this is permanent) and last night he put himself in a ball up against my waist. Since I sleep on my side, we were curled one around the other. This is kind of important, because it was very comfortable, which sleeping with cats normally isn’t. He also purred...

Welcome To the Year of Go Big or Go Home!

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*This morning I’m taking the very unusual step of doing identical blogging here and at Mad Genius Club. Mostly because I think what I woke up thinking is important in different ways for the different audiences. Just be aware the posts are identical, but the discussion will probably be different, so you might consider peeping over at MGC sometimes. Oh, and yeah, I wasn’t going to blog, but I...

So, It’s the End, And the Beginning

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So it’s the end of 2019. Not the end of the world. The rest promises to go pretty much as always, ticky boo. Even if ticky boo for some people includes getting crazier. Honestly it doesn’t bode well that 2020 is the year of the rat.

I told my husband I remember being very excited at the end of the 70s. Now part of this is that I got to write a retrospective of the decade for the newspaper, (which no longer exists) because I was interning in the morgue. (Newspaper morgue, where the old issues...

Corrupted Conclusions

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We have a problem of reproducibility in studies. And by that, I mean in the HARD sciences. If you need background, look here, here, here, here and here.

Why this should matter: most of us, including people who are responsible for doing things like creating weapon systems, making regulations on what medications are safe/how you should cook your food/what age you can drink/smoke/fight/boogie (really any regulations at all that interfere with your daily life)/treat you when you get sick have...

This and that and those

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Today is my 34th (religious ceremony) anniversary, i.e. the “real anniversary” though we often celebrate the civil wedding in the summer, because you know… well, because for instance today we’d planned to go out to dinner, and the weather is bitterly cold with blowing snow, so we’re not. I’ll make dinner and we’ll eat at home.

Which honestly is fine.

I’m doing a quick cleaning as per usual on Friday, only quicker since it’s only been US in the house most of the time (it’s amazing how much...

Disinformation

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Sorry this is so horribly late. I’ve been trying to finish a few commissioned covers so I can close that to do list before the end of the year.

I actually meant to write this yesterday, but was fairly useless by the end of the evening and knew I wouldn’t find the right words.

I’ve got bad news and good news.

The bad news is that having figured out two more or less permanent burrs and occasional (very occasional) posters on this blog are actually trolls and probably paid, one of them for sure...

Unexpectedly busy today

Everything is fine. We just decided to rearrange furniture while younger son was here.

I’m Petting Cats and Enjoying Time with Kid

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Merry Christmas. Happy Fourth Night. Keep the lights burning in the darkness.

Sometimes all we need a light to hold onto, a star to follow, a multitude, each holding a tiny candle, until the entire darkness is turned as bright as day.

Let it be so.

Be not afraid.

Bonus Christmas Eve Promo Post

Mostly because I’m busy and I have a book out.
Wait, I have a book out? Sure. It’s a short-ish novel (not as a short as some, but about half the size of my normal novels, and it’s the story of a poor guy who has to go to hell.

I actually want to say a few things about it: Deep Pink has a music theme, but this is not a series theme. And other books probably won’t involve Heaven or Hell, which I’m a little uncomfortable dealing with in fiction.

Some of the characters will be continuing to the...