Here’s my plan

I need to bring back Forsythe. Forsythe is the man. Forsythe is an original SF character of mine. He’s at the center of the ’verse that includes the Polixaci… He’s a UN diplomat in the ‘alien section’ who ends up solving crimes and fixing problems. I’ve used the setting in a couple of the SF Drabbles over at [...]

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In which I set up Windows Live

Why? Oh, I don’t know. But I set up Windows Live and installed Windows Live Essentials. Just the toolbar and the Live Writer, because the Live writer lets you post directly to Blogger, and that’s where I have my writing blog. I figure this way I won’t lose any formatting (italics, font stuff, etc.) I [...]

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I should be writing about happy puppies, apparently.

So I’m sitting here in my friend’s kitchen. I’m babysitting this morning, just me and the two year old. I’ve been writing, he’s been watching T.V. I’ve been working on a particularly dark zombie story, a 1000-word flashfic about a serial killer cum zombie apocalypse survivor, which I have given the title "Sunday In The [...]

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I feel so…. judged.

I have been twitalyzed and found wanting. Apparently my signal-to-noise ratio is low, my velocity and influence are very, very low, and my clout and generosity are non existent. I mean, here I am, thinking that ‘clout’ and ‘influence’ were the same thing. When will I learn, gentle reader? When? In other news, babysitting goes well. The [...]

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Mel and Books and Babies.

Went to Border’s in White Flint to meet up and have coffee with Melanie (good friend in, and drum major of, my high school band) and her adorable daughter Maggie. We recently got re-acquainted at our 20 year reunion and have been meaning to get together for a while to hang out while she’s in town, [...]

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Blog Slacking et al.

I haven’t been very verbose lately, for about the last month, in fact… it’s because of the show. I’m playing the trombone book for Peter Pan at Olney Theater and it takes up a lot of my time… 8 shows a week, plus I did some arranging for it. This weekend I have 4 shows [...]

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Monday, Monday (la laaa, la, lalaaa.)

So. It’s be a leisurely day off. I babysat for a bit… actually, more like a babysitting errand; picked up kids at school and dropped them off at home. I’ll be doing that Wednesday too. Went to the bank to deposit a show check (yay!) and then came home to find my new laptop power adapter [...]

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Unvampire: Part Quatre

Well, I slept for 11 hours, from about 11 pm to about 10pm, with a bathroom break at about 2:30 am, and now I feel woooonderfuuuuul. So I’m succesfully unvampired. Yay, me. I’m over at the Fish Pond, babysitting this morning. Just me and ‘Nemo’ (that’s her blog alias for the baby.) She’s gone to [...]

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Babysitting…

Picked a couple of my charges up from the bus stop this afternoon and then went to their house… which was locked. I don’t have a key. So one had to go to dance in her street clothes (thankfully apart from a little initial shyness and worrying she didn’t have an embarassment meltdown), we ordered pizza [...]

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Happiness is…

…having  a kid cover you with blankets and pillows and then jump on you like you’re a pile of leaves till you’re black and blue.

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