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Deadlines Looming

Wrote a book review yesterday (Sarah Hoyt’s latest,A Few Good Men), submittedThe Tree of Death and Life,did some job hunting (hey, I need a job that gives me more time to write) and basically accomplished something. Today… not so much.

Doing the piping of a buttload of cookies will do that to arthritic fingers.

So I have a cat on my lap now who is purring away, trying to get me to stop typing so I can recover some. Unfortunately for kitty, I have deadlines looming.

So I’ll have more later this w...

Jason’s Doctor Who Love Fest Continues

Hey, look at that, a 0600 post. Strange, no? Well, you can think of this little scheduling thingy they have for future posts, or believe that I really am awake early in the morning typing this, sans Starbucks. Your call.

I just finished the David Tennant seasons ofDoctor Whoand am now on to the Matt Smith episodes. So far I’ve been underwhelmed. It seems that the writing is going out of its way to make him funny, but primarily it’s coming off as childish. I don’t know, maybe he gets better as...

That One Post You Never Come To Enjoy

I’ve got this…bugright now. Not sure what it is, exactly. I lost my voice and have been hacking up something most decidedly Kermit colored. On the other hand, I feel fine. It’s weird. I’ll be okay, then suddenly coughing like a maniac. No fever, no aches, no headache. Just no voice.

Huh. Good thing I don’t need to speak to write, right (I say this as I glare at my old speech-to-text program I found on my computer)?

Wrapping upThe Tree of Death and Liferight now, and have started two more storie...

Five More Years

Made it home safely enough. Am dead tired.

Also, WordPress just shot me a message congratulating me on five years with them. Huh. That went by fast. Well, here’s to another five years.

Another Book Release

Still at the farm, and realizing that I miss being out here with my friends. I’m doing some writing, but with Google Drive/Docs being a little screwy, I’m not in my usual “flow” of things. On the other hand, I’m writing. So… eh?

I’ll be back to regular posting this Friday. I’ll also be back to regular reviews over at SBR next week. I have John Ringo’sTiger by the Tail and a few others.

Also,Dreams of Steam 4: Gizmosis out at Amazon. I can’t find a good image of it online, so that’ll come later....

Mysticon 2013 AAR

So it’s late Sunday afternoon at Soldier’s Retreat and I’m coming down off of the high that was the awesomeness of Mysticon 2013. Finally got to meet Col. Tom Kratman in person, which was a hoot, because that man can tell a story. Had to keep it relatively PG-13, however, due to the underage midgets in the room.

Okay, so on to the convention after action review.

Left Lexington on Thursday since I wanted to be relatively fresh at the con for the following day, so I made a beeline for Casa Boyd....

Mistikaaaaaaaaaahn!

Just another reminder…

MYSTICON!!!

I’m going to Khan you.

That is all.

Get it?

Kaaaaaaahn?

Oh, admit your nerdiness already.

Sheesh.

Accomplish-y Writer

I feel all accomplish-y right now.

Put up a review of Maurice Broaddus’King Maker, which is a fascinating retelling of the King Arthur legends, over atShiny Book Review. I also cleaned my kitchen, did the litter boxes, and (almost) took out the trash. I mean, I saw that it wasalmostfull, so it’s not like I’m ignorant of my garbage situation…

You know what? Nobody comes here for that information. Sorry, sorry.

I’m still going to be atMysticonthis weekend, but I won’t be staying in the con hotel b...

The Doctor Who Apology Tour

It’s not often I’m wrong (only four times a day), so when I am I come out and admit it.

I was wrong aboutDr. Who.

I made the mistake of watching some of the older episodes long ago (late 80′s?) and my initial reaction was “Campy”. I didn’t watch any more episodes after, and when the series was rebooted I stayed well clear. I couldn’t imagine how much worse it could get, since the mid-2000′s were not the best for TV shows. I was afraid of how bad the writing could be, the effects, pretty much ev...

In Soviet Russia…

Well, it goes to show you that the cosmos, at least, are still willing to give Putin the middle finger.

The meteorite seems to have impacted as well, though I’m still waiting to hear back from some friends. As horrifying as it could have been, the science geeky part of me (which is ahugepart) thinks that a meteorite impact is pretty cool. Since the Earth is roughly 70% water, the odds of a meteorite striking land is, as you math people can guess, not likely. Granted, itdidstrike the largest la...