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I have come to the conclusion that I'm lousy at having a ...

I have come to the conclusion that I'm lousy at having a cell phone as a primary phone. We got rid of our landline to save money in light of the impending lay-off, and I'm supposed to be using my cell phone instead, which I normally keep in my purse in case of emergencies. I can't get in the habit of keeping it with me. If I remember to put it on the dresser near where I write, I forget to take it with me when I leave the house, and vice versa. This morning I realized I hadn't seen it in ...

A link from storm_grant: The Little Lost Lambda -- Some ...

A link from storm_grant: The Little Lost Lambda -- Some Thoughts by Victor J. Banis And the Lambda people, year in and year out, work to validate this miniscule view of the glbt world. Ruth Sims, author of a simply wonderful novel, The Phoenix, commented that she has long noticed an anti-female writer bias with the Lammies, and said wistfully that she knew she'd never get one of their gay fiction awards. I wrote her back that the problem was not her gender, she could put any name on it she l...

Cool rainy weather brings intense allergy headaches, ouch...

Cool rainy weather brings intense allergy headaches, ouch, ouch.

Some links:

Last Drink Bird Head Charity Anthology
The Last Drink Bird Head flash fiction anthology available for preorder at a $5 discount. All proceeds go to ProLiteracy, an organization that "champions the power of literacy to improve the lives of adults and their families, communities, and societies. We envision a world in which everyone can read, write, compute, and use technology to lead healthy, productive, and fulfilling...

The pot roast last night turned out very well. There wil...

The pot roast last night turned out very well. There will be sandwiches with gravy for lunch today, oh yes, there will.

I'm getting a fall check for the furnace today, because as cool as the weather has been, we might actually need it soon.

No news on the job front. Troyce has put in a lot of applications, but none of the positions stay posted long, which means there are tons of applicants.


art sites:

Charles Vess

One of my favorites: Thomas Canty here and here.

Albertson's was having a two for the price of one sale on...

Albertson's was having a two for the price of one sale on pot roast, so we're having pot roast tonight. We'll probably be having leftover pot roast for some time, but that's a good thing, since there's a lot of things you can do with it, from open face sandwiches with gravy to enchiladas.

I keep noticing my daily word counts are always off by a day. I think this is partly to do with me forgetting to add a new day for the new word count and typing it into the previous day's word count instead...

Scare for a Cure and Venture Brothers

I'm hoping October will be better than September. But then I was hoping September would be better than August, and that didn't pan out so well. Anyway.

If you're going to be in Austin, TX in October, you must check out: Scare For a Cure. This is an annual haunted house experience to benefit breast cancer programs.

October 22-25 & 28-31, 2009
7400 Coldwater Canyon Dr., Austin, TX
Join a team of paranormal researchers to explore the mysteries and horrors of Dunstan Manor. Experience first-hand a ...

The weekend got off to a great start last night, when I w...

The weekend got off to a great start last night, when I was watching Psych:
Different links for Saturday morning:

Elizabeth Moon's Blog 80 Acres: Wildlife Management and Prairie Restoration, Small Scale, about working on her ranch outside Austin.

Hexagon Comics: a library of ...

New Short Story

Posted Reflections to my web site. This was the first Giliead and Ilias story to appear in Black Gate, issue #10, March 2007. All these stories were prequels to the Fall of Ile-Rien trilogy.

Other free fiction on my site:

Short stories: Thorns (Realms of Fantasy June 1995), Bad Medicine (Realms of Fantasy June 1997), Wolf Night (Lone Star Stories August 2006), The Forest Boy July 2009, The Potter's Daughter (Elemental May 2006), Holy Places (Black Gate #11 August 2007)

Novel: The Element of...

Hurricane Ike Anniversary

The Big Picture: One Year After Hurricane Ike. There are some really poignant before and after photos of Galveston here. From photo 2 on, click on the photo to get the alternate version.

One of the big differences that's hard to see in photos is the dead trees. Galveston used to have tree-lined streets, but the saltwater killed a huge number of them.

We were in Galveston on vacation when Ike was about to come in, and left at the first mandatory evacuation, so we were back home by the time it...

Okay, exploding toilet issue is now dealt with. Though I...

Okay, exploding toilet issue is now dealt with. Though I had to run and get a coat hanger for the plumbers, so they could retrieve the ring one of them lost down our sewer pipe. (I thought that was like a rule: you don't wear rings when doing plumbing, like you don't wear a tie while using a meat grinder.)

Of course, even as that was being fixed, I got a letter from one of my credit card companies saying they think my card was used against my will by a third party, with absolutely no other d...