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July 23, 2021
Gonna be doing dull writing stuff for the rest of the night.
Edits. Edits of the new novel and a haircut of the RPG supplement. It looks like I’m going to need to budget considerably more there if I want to get it out by the end of next quarter which means that the next novel after MORGAN BAROD’s just been pushed back to 2022. Oh, well: my current income stream (Patreon and my backlist) is only really able to sustain a book a year at the moment anyway.
And there’s no point in whining about it, so I’ll stop now.
Light-ish posting this weekend.
Taking the kids to go see Nana. Half-debating forgetting to take the Chromebook with me, because it’d do me good to read a print book for a change. On the other hand, there’s deadlines to consider… nah, I should probably not take the Chromebook anyway.
The first episode of TED LASSO Season 2 has dropped.
So far, so good. They’ve introduced some characters, established the current season’s situation, and updated how everybody was doing. No spoilers, but I think I can see where the stress lines are going to be for this season of TED LASSO.
…And I’m going to have to wait for it in dribs and drabs, instead of binge-watching. What fun!
FAA denies Wally Funk her Commercial Astronaut wings?
This seems fairly needlessly petty:
Federal aviation regulators have made a rare change to the requirements for its Commercial Astronaut Wings Program, meaning Blue Origin founder Jeff Bezos may not officially be recognized for his spaceflight this week.
The Federal Aviation Administration changed rules for the program on the same day Bezos, his brother and two others made their historic first commercial spaceflight on Tuesday.
It’s not the rules changes themselves – I’m not going to pretend I knew what they were and are before I read the article – rather, it’s the timing of it. I may not be checked out on the minutiae of what makes an ‘official’ astronaut, but I do have some ability to detect when somebody in the federal bureaucracy has decided to be a jackwagon. I’m detecting some of that right now. If for no other reason that they could have waited a day.
And then there’s the Wally Funk angle. That’s what startles me more than a little. Yeah, I get that Bezos is not well-liked by many people. But Funk’s been trying to get into space for longer than I’ve been alive. It seems rude to give her the formal recognition that she finally made it.
Via Instapundit.
July 22, 2021
07/22/21 Snippet, DEEP IN THE HEART OF SEX FISH.
Second date! (They should have had one.)
Patreon!After the first month, things were going fine. Heck, they were just about perfect, or so I thought. I had been worried about passing the CPA test, but I absolutely aced it on the first try. Was it because of how confident I was feeling? Probably.
I was definitely feeling better, too: my apartment building had a gym, and I was finding myself getting in some exercise time a few times a week. Turns out it’s easier to keep working out than it is to start working out. Go figure. Between that, Trawlr girls (mostly the Trawlr girls), and me just feeling better in general, I was now sleeping like a rock at night, too.
Work was a breeze, everything was squared away, I was totally in the groove. It was all moving along nicely. And then Emily dropped me another Hook, exactly four weeks after the first time. I was feeling pretty good about myself when I saw that; I even pretended to think about not Reeling Her In. Yeah, like I wasn’t going to see her again. Sure, the other Trawlr girls were great and fun, but she was vivid, you know what I mean?
Yeah, you probably don’t know what I mean.
In the Mail: THE DIRE DAYS OF WILLOWEEP MANOR.
THE DIRE DAYS OF WILLOWEEP MANOR is a graphic novel written by Shaenon Garrity (artist Christopher Baldwin), and it should provide a certain amusement to those who hold an appreciation for the Gothic genre. I like Shaenon, obviously (she did my first novel cover), but I’d like this even if I didn’t know her. Assuming that it had come across my radar, obviously; so huzzah for interacting with other people, hey?
Special Thursday edition of the July Patreon Pledge Drive!
It’s Thursday! That’s an extra-special day for signing up for my Patreon! Why, do you ask?
Well, why do you ask? What you should be asking is, what’s in it for me? Well, I’ll tell ya: for a mere dollar a month you get regular doses of fiction, microfiction, and RPG materials! It’s not just a bargain! At these parts, it’s a veritable blunder on my part!
Sign up today!
Patreon!Tweet of the Day, THE BEAR RAMPAGES CANNOT BE CONTAINED edition.
I almost don’t want to read the article, now. I am morally certain it won’t be as good as the article inside my head.
The Tokyo Olympics have barely started but that hasn’t stopped the games from experiencing more than its share of disturbances – including a roaming bear that cannot be contained https://t.co/UfoJpMrMjz
— The Washington Post (@washingtonpost) July 21, 2021
:click:
In June, authorities confirmed that hunters shot and killed a brown bear in the city of Sapporo after it went on a rampage through residential streets and stormed a military base, wounding four people.
…So, yeah, I was wrong. That was worth the click.
(Via @DeclanFinnBooks)
