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BLog Funding Day One

Having proven myself unable to actually mail rewards on time or anything close to it — even email rewards — (though this year has been exceptionally bad on the personal front. Yes, I can tell you how, if you have a pint and two hours) I’ve decided to completely revamp the fund raising, so it’s “self fulfilling.”

THAT SAID, LAST YEARS DEBTS WILL BE PAID. I WILL PUT THE MP3 HERE FOR DOWNLOAD SOMETIME THIS WEEK, AND THEN THE LINK TO DOWNLOAD THE COLLECTION OF USAIAN STORIES. IF YOU DONATED ...

Current Update And Pre-Fund-Raising

I should by now have paid all the stuff from last year’s fundraiser. I will. Sometime this week or next. Except for mass and math deaths and tuckerizations. But it’s been slow and weird. (If you’re not sure, feel free to email me at sahswag@outlook.com.
Yes, I owe one of you a zoom meeting to discuss your novel. Sorry. It should have been Thursday, but you know what happened. I’ll email you today.

I will, as soon as younger son puts the file up somewhere, so I can link, give away the moose...

Memes Pro Populo

Okay, the first is not exactly a meme. But you know, it’s important.

And now? Laissez les bon memes rouler!

Weird

At Liberty con, I was put — for the second time — on a panel called The New Weird. This put me in a mood, since the last time I was on it, no one could define the New Weird. Which in my mind is a failed marketing tag, and the equivalent of “New Wave without without the flashes of brilliance conferred by LSD.”

So I might have been a wee bit rude off the gate. Look, truly, part of this is that I was barely holding together with ducttape with Helena in ICU. (Her having died hasn’t made thin...

The Problem of Hindsight

Events in the rearview mirror appear clearer than they are.

It is important to remember that though we are the victims of a 20th century “conspiracy” it wasn’t really a conspiracy. More of a prospiracy. A loose group of people blundering around doing things because they seemed right, who didn’t actually foresee the disastrous and terrifying consequences of their behavior, their ideological allegiance, or their corruption of what their profession should be.

Take war for instance.

A l...

The Machinery Of Grief

I will stop being a drip about the kitten, and go on with life. Not that it’s going to pass or I’m going to forget, mind you — it unfortunately doesn’t work that way — but because it’s not your fault, and you shouldn’t have to put up with it.

Somewhere mentally I’m still locked in… It’s not denial, because I know it’s happened. It’s more …. I want it undone. My subconscious is stomping its feet and screaming that it wants to go back a week and two days, to happy, healthy running around ki...

This is a Post I hoped Never To Write

Helena of Troy Hoyt, Jan. 2023, Jun 2023.

Helena died in her sleep last night, before we could get home to cuddle her once more. The doctor still has no idea why, and I’ve authorized an autopsy, to spare someone else this heartbreak; to maybe save another kitten.

I shouldn’t have had her spayed so young; I shouldn’t have boarded her; I shouldn’t have removed her from my shoulder when she was happy and purring; I shouldn’t have moved her from her patch of sunlight when she was sleeping...

Two Truths and a Lie – by The Baloonatic

Two Truths and a Lie – by the Baloonatic

I attended a Bible Study a few weeks ago where the topic was Truth. As part of the introduction, they had us play that icebreaker I have played many times in the past  – Two Truths and a Lie. It’s played in many ways, sometimes people write the two truths and a lie on a sheet of paper and people not only have to guess which is the lie, but to which person it applies; and sometimes, as this time, it was just writing them down and reading them out. O...

Helena Update Almost nothing New

Helena, two weeks ago.

So, nothing really new, though they either gave us more hope or– Anyway, she’s largely unresponsive.

Apparently it wasn’t a suggestion to euthanize. The doctor is happy we’re not. Tests for Toxoplasmosis (Sp?) are delayed. If it’s not Toxoplasmosis, the doctor is going to assume some form of brain event and put her on steroids to reduce swelling, etc. If it is positive, then it’s just going take a while on antibiotics. Just… patience.

She’s not getting wor...

Not Good News On Tiny Helena

Helena at work supervising my writing two weeks ago.

I’m afraid the news this morning isn’t good at all. It’s not terrible, mind you. Not the worst it could be.

But Helena hasn’t made any progress from yesterday. She’s scooting around, but won’t get up on her legs, not to stand. She swallows the tablet, but won’t eat on her own. She is aware of the nurse, but won’t really interact. though she responds to touch.

Right now the speculation is leaning to something neurological, thoug...