Long weekend

I have just dragged myself out of bed and am listening to Regina Spektor. Had two gigs with the Players Band this weekend. Both my mixers are fubar. Fortunately the band owns one, an old Mackie CFX-16, which we can use for the remainder of our gigs this summer; it’s just that it only has [...]

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In which I turn 39, all by myself

Well, today (technically yesterday, but I haven’t gone to bed yet so it’s still today dammit) is my birthday. I am 39. I feel older, don’t know why. Maybe it’s the gray in my beard, or the aches and pains. I don’t get much in the way of presents or cards or anything. Nobody’s throwing me any [...]

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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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Regina Spektor – “Wallet”

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The autopsy is complete.

But no cause of death was found. There is no burnt component smell, nothing obvious pointing to why my frankenbox desktop computer became completely and inexplicably inert. It was probably the motherboard. At this point, that means replacing mobo, mem, and cpu, because what if it wasn’t the motherboard? I did find a dead potato [...]

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