by CJ | May 6, 2015 | Journal
…gaming headsets than we are about charging our cell phones. The gaming headsets are a moment of justified and harmless mayhem after a day of getting Bren in trouble… The phone is a device that really should sit on the table and ring only with the pleasant...
by CJ | May 5, 2015 | Journal
We’ve been procrastinating the pond netting, because, a) the netting roll was locked up and I didn’t know where the key was, and b) we’re up to our ears in editing and c) it’s a big job. So yesterday while Jane was deep in edit, I undertook the...
by CJ | May 5, 2015 | Journal
We’ve been procrastinating the pond netting, because, a) the netting roll was locked up and I didn’t know where the key was, and b) we’re up to our ears in editing and c) it’s a big job. So yesterday while Jane was deep in edit, I undertook the...
by CJ | May 3, 2015 | Journal
This is the day when everybody in Spokane who is NOT doing the Bloomsday run stays well out of the main course, stays home, doesn’t go to restaurants, and doesn’t go shopping. 😉 Outside of that, it’s a gorgeous day, the white peony has blooms all...
by CJ | Apr 30, 2015 | Journal
Job one, writing. Job two, get the pond netting replaced. Well, we got half of it: plants had grown through the mesh, so we had to cut euphorbia (poisonous and allergenic, what a lovely plant, but pretty) with gloves and loppers, clamber around rocks, pull netting out...
by CJ | Apr 29, 2015 | Journal
You may recall that Tau Ceti is Pell’s Star, with several planets, including Downbelow.Tau Ceti Planets
by CJ | Apr 29, 2015 | Journal
And a pretty good restaurant. We’re still reading on the road, and being on the road lets us discuss the story and figure things out. This is the way we work. Jane is so much help. Two hours out, two hours back—and we’re pretty tired. Brain-tired....
by CJ | Apr 26, 2015 | Journal
It’s quite a construction. I’m from the Great Plains, and was not real sympathetic to the Big Dams. Living up here, I’ve changed opinions. What I remain sad about is the effect on native peoples and the salmon fisheries closely tied to them. I can...
by CJ | Apr 24, 2015 | Journal
So, well, realizing we’d become serious couch potatoes, Jane and I have taken to power-walking (tranlation: moving one’s tailfeathers, walking as if there were a prize involved) not for blocks and blocks, but on our short street, which has only 4-5 houses....
by CJ | Apr 24, 2015 | Journal
So, well, realizing we’d become serious couch potatoes, Jane and I have taken to power-walking (tranlation: moving one’s tailfeathers, walking as if there were a prize involved) not for blocks and blocks, but on our short street, which has only 4-5 houses....
by CJ | Apr 23, 2015 | Journal
Apparently a concerted effort gamed the Hugos. Hugo Site Vox Day (cf Vox Dei, Latin for Voice of God) is actually Theodore Beale. Google those names as well as GamerGate, Sad Puppies, Rabid Puppies, Castalia House, and read, before voting for the Hugos, but if you...
by CJ | Apr 22, 2015 | Journal
One person drives, one person reads. This amount of concentration on a necessary task keeps our focus at ‘reader’ level instead of editing—ie, it breaks a writerly obsession with ‘what-next’ and installs a ‘what’s actually...
