The rain’s been keeping me inside. Not that staying inside is a bad thing, necessarily. Autumn spent yesterday with her family in Warner Robins, and I made some 15-bean soup, worked on some photos from last weekend’s wedding, read some of McDevitt’s Time Travelers Never Die, finished the crappy bourbon I bought last week, and [...]
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Spring Domesticity
I’m on spring break this week. Usually, Autumn and I pick a destination and go. Spring Break usually means the motorcycle and a beachy locale: something sunny and warm to remind our bodies what that feels like after a grey and cold winter. This year, however, we paid off some bills (yeah!) rather than travelling [...]
Shooting with Nathan
I seem to be preoccupied with guns lately, and Nathan is not helping. We spent just over an hour at the Macon Police Department’s shooting range yesterday. Nathan was practicing his black ops shooting techniques for something he’s writing, and I was educating myself about handguns. One of the first things I learned is that [...]
Ha Ha?
This cartoon by Mike Luckovich was forwarded by our VPAA today, on the cusp of announced budget cuts. I wish I could say it’s funny. I think I know what tomorrow’s blog post will be about.
Insomniac
I hate when I can’t sleep. It seems like it happens more frequently these days. I can usually feel it coming on, too. I lay in bed, earplugs securely in, and a random thought occurs like, am I sure my second session class begins on Thursday, and not today? Maybe I missed it? As my [...]
Meeting Jack McDevitt
I’m embarrassed to admit it, but I had not read Jack McDevitt until I heard he was coming to this year’s Crossroads Conference. I’m embarrassed because I’m supposed to be up on all things science fiction. His novel Seeker won a Nebula award in 2006 for best novel (and most of his other novels have been nominated), and I [...]
A New Home?
Friends, we are having some difficulty at home. Actually, to be more accurate, the trouble has been going on for a while, but we’ve been doing our best to correct it. My cat Apollo has been pretty brutally attacking my other cat Anna. For those of you who know Anna, you know she’s a sweetheart. [...]