As of yesterday: Both new computers and their associated extras (some leftover, some new) are installed, with current software, and running just fine. I’m still having some quibbles with the new Paint Shop Pro because some favorite and very frequently used functions either aren’t there, or are somewhere I haven’t found yet. My new printer’s Read More…
Category: Life Beynd Writing
Yes, I’m Better
Progress continues: some more stitches have come out (not all yet) , the nose-scab is down to a snarky-looking dot, energy level is coming right back up, and I’ll be looking for a new bifocal prescription pretty soon, when the final soreness is gone. Yes, the new computer system Kate came to install is nearing Read More…
One Stitch Out
One of the stitches in my lip came out this morning…the ER doctor (not naming him bc I don’t know if he wants his name spread around a bunch) wanted them to stay in for 10 days, but…these self-dissolving ones let go when they feel like it. And I kept laughing at things Kate said Read More…
Getting Back in Shape
Not me personally, but my office…following the Great Computer Crash and the I-Can’t-Believe-It’s-Not-Covid Scare and the Attack of the Gravity Monster (still healing from that last one), and with the help of the amazing Kate Shull, I am now in possession of the Boxes of Delight. Two new computers (one for me, one for husband, Read More…
The Planet Hit Me in the Face!
This is the science fiction blog, so that title seemed appropriate when I faceplanted into the gravel & concrete sidewalk Saturday afternoon. Planet used its overwhelming gravitatioal constant to smash me down (OK, I tripped on the corner of a planter) and turn me into a scary, gory, bleeding-faced mess right there between the airport Read More…
Two Annual Markers: My Mother’s Birth, My Mother’s Death
I wasn’t around for my mother’s birth. She was born at home, like most children in those pre-WWI days. She would have been beyond a century old this year, if she’d lived that long. But her birthday and her death day always give me a sharp jab in the ribs: I exist because she existed Read More…
Where’d she Go?
Got sick last week, have been seriously miserable (but not a serious illness just uncomfortable and unhappy) for days. Better today, definitely on the upswing, expect to be almost back to normal by week’s end, but don’t worry if I’m scarce somewhat longer. Covid test was negative. Sore throat went into bronchitis; still a lot Read More…
Left Behind: Doomed?
No, this isn’t about a particular belief of a particular group of Christians. It’s about stories. Stories that start with someone left behind–oversleeping and missing the boat, the train, the shopping trip, perhaps. Shipwrecked on an island. Falling out of an airplane into a dense forest. Or missed by the rescue vessel when others Read More…
Snippet at Paksworld Blog
Hit with a plot bomb this morning and there’s now something really new and raw on the http://www.paksworld.com/blog/?p=2932 …a longish snippet from “something” whose ultimate length, type and so on I know nothing about yet. It’s farther in the future than Horngard I and probably the entire Horngard group. So I thought I’d better stick Read More…
Holes (In the Ground, Not Stories) (update Jan 13)
I had originally thought of using a dip in the ground west of Cloud Pavilion (one of our rain-barns) to create a small pond, fed by water from the storage tanks at Cloud. Cloud was so that 4 2500 gallon tanks could be placed in it (under the two upper decks) but on further consideration Read More…