by CJ | Aug 30, 2015 | Journal
I hate sinus infections. I really like breathing. I have a feeling docs all over town are swamped, half a million people in Spokane area and all of them with respiratory distress. On the other hand, there are going to be those who have a lot more need of a...
by CJ | Aug 29, 2015 | Journal
They say it should get here around 11 am, and that’s never varied. But they only forecast a tenth of an inch. They always forecast a tenth of an inch in WA. No matter what actually falls. But they call for it to hang around continuing to rain tenths.
by CJ | Aug 28, 2015 | Journal
The rain isn’t supposed to get here til tomorrow, but I’ve had a little headache, which often says front coming in. There are drops hitting the pond.
by CJ | Aug 28, 2015 | Journal
The rain isn’t supposed to get here til tomorrow, but I’ve had a little headache, which often says front coming in. There are drops hitting the pond.
by CJ | Aug 28, 2015 | Journal
Not so easy. The water up there may be warmer than they like, but we’ll see one swim up, then dive. The magnification makes Ari look like a wild-eyed horse… I think it’s a success! We’ve been too sick and the weather’s been too nasty, but...
by CJ | Aug 26, 2015 | Journal
Both of us are suffering from the fires, which are still going on, though not as thick smoke as before, just a general haze. Sore throats, up high, back of the nose. I spent yesterday in bed, rare for me, even if I am sick—I just slept and lay there staring at...
by CJ | Aug 20, 2015 | Journal
And wished some safe journey, some happy convention, and we are collapsing at home. Our only regret is that the weather is absolutely beastly—half of WA caught fire, it seems, and a lot of folk up by Twisp and elsewhere have terribly bad situations, smoke is a...
by CJ | Aug 17, 2015 | Journal
Shejicon is now in progress, and very kind attendees have come over and helped us move things, sweep things, weed, toss, and what-not, so that we look respectable over here…When we’re on a tight writing schedule, things do get out of hand, because...
by CJ | Aug 17, 2015 | Journal
Shejicon is now in progress, and very kind attendees have come over and helped us move things, sweep things, weed, toss, and what-not, so that we look respectable over here…When we’re on a tight writing schedule, things do get out of hand, because...
by CJ | Aug 9, 2015 | Journal
Working. Working. Working. Jane’s doing some in-house fixup…tuiting round-to-its—we’re both so tired we can’t see straight, but writing on this very critical short-schedule book is going extremely well. We may gain a few pounds on the...
by CJ | Aug 9, 2015 | Journal
Working. Working. Working. Jane’s doing some in-house fixup…tuiting round-to-its—we’re both so tired we can’t see straight, but writing on this very critical short-schedule book is going extremely well. We may gain a few pounds on the...
by CJ | Aug 3, 2015 | Journal
Jane and I have promised ourselves a pony once we get through with this push. [An American proverb: There has to be a pony underneath all this stable-cleaning.] [Sanitized version.] But progress is happening.