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Fundraising Post, Day 8 of 15

POST OF THE DAY BELOW THIS.

Part of the reason I hate fundraising is that it’s so tedious. I mean, here we are on day 8 and what can I tell you about the reason I’m fundraising, that you haven’t heard before?

OTOH of course there are people who only check this blog every week or every other week, or whatever, or who were on vacation and haven’t seen this. Or who skipped the fundraising posts because they simply didn’t want to deal with it but won’t remember if I don’t repeat. Or–

Ev...

Peace By The Balloonatic

*All I have to do is say I just can’t and lo and behold, readers chase me around the room with slippers going “we sent you guest posts.” My bad. they have. I just couldn’t find them. Partly because mostly asleep.”

Peace by the Balloonatic

I have never been a big fan of horror, whether on the screen or in a book. I grew up in the 70s and 80s outside a small town in northern Ontario with a movie theater that let you in regardless of the movies ratings and watched movies there and on TV ...

I’m sorry, I’ve tried

I have most of a post written, but I keep falling asleep, and I have chapters to do for Witch’s Daughter, but I need a nap.

For explanation: I’m sleeping in the family room, because Dan is sleeping on the recliner, so he can be comfortable after surgery. The problem is I can’t be comfortable. I also can’t be away, because he’s still unbalanced, and I’m afraid he’ll get up, fall, and I won’t hear him. But I’m one of those people who sleeps on her bed, in one position. I don’t even like hotel b...

Blog Funding Day 7 of 15

THE NORMAL DAILY POST IS BENEATH THIS ONE.

Hey, what do you know. Posting boobs worked!
Continuing on a theme, have some tits. What’s best? The tagging on this assures me they’re GREAT tits. So, have some GREAT tits. (They are very pretty.)

And I promise a Great Big Fat Tit at the end.

Now, for the serious side: This blog takes up a lot of my life. And when I’m not feeling well — yes, Dan had surgery but I managed to catch a cold at the hospital — sometimes all I...

Mind Virus

News Flash: You ain’t Tokyo Rose. Further news flash: No one is paying you to spread fear and despondency. So I guess you’re doing it pour l’amour or le sport, uh?

Look, everyone gets scared, okay? And sometimes you’re so terrified you just blurt it out. You can’t stop it. You partly need reassurance, and partly the nightmare is trying to come out. I’ve been known to do, but I usually do it in a small group, who then beat me about the face and head. Until I stop doing it.

Because let’s...

View From Normal Street

First, housekeeping: I didn’t mean to skip posting today. I figured Dan was having surgery, not me. I could wait in the waiting room and do blog posting.

The best laid plans of Sarah, etc. So, the hospital is basically a farraday cage. Not for everyone, because people next to me were on their phones, but for our phones and service. Neither Dan nor I could get service on our phones. Which since my plan was to pair the laptop with the phone, meant I couldn’t post till I got out.

And whil...

Report from the Assistant

I am to tell you that Dan had surgery this morning, all is fine, and Sarah will post later after they are home, worry not.

Blog Funding Days, 7 of 15

THE DAILY POST IS BELOW.

ALSO BEFORE STARTING THE RITUALIZED BEGGING, AN IMPORTANT AND JOYOUS ANNOUNCEMENT: DAVE FREER WON THE PROMETHEUS AWARD WITH HIS NOVEL CLOUD-CASTLES.
If you haven’t read it, go here to buy it. (Yeah, yeah #commission earned.)

NOW: Blog Funding Days, 7 of 15.

Someone told me my blog would fund if I posted a picture of a pair of boobies, so with deep confusion, here it is:

And very nice boobies they are! I guess there’s a lot of bird lovers around, yes?

O...

Boobs

There is a particular style to feminist whining. My “favorite” is the hundred meter synchronized competition in attributing male awkwardness or any form of marketing (even covers, which are a subset of traditional publishing, which is a business dominated by females and aimed at females) to malice and patriarchy. Even when — especially when — men suffer the exact same thing, and often twice as bad.

Like, you know, the way women are dressed and posed in science fiction and fantasy covers. ...

Blog Funding Days, day 6 of 15

*TODAY’S POST — SUNDAY PROMO AND VIGNETTES — IS BELOW THIS ONE -S.A.H.*

Yes, blog funding is going fairly slow on all fronts, partly I think because of the times we’re in. It’s not that fewer people are giving, but that people in general are giving less.

This is not a complaint against the givers. I’m also giving slightly less. Because of the times we’re in. And no one should feel obligated or even hinted at to give more than they can afford. This is not an emergency fundraiser.

Mind...