With one week in the books, I’ve managed a respectable 10,026 words on the new novel. Not quite NaNoWriMo numbers, but I figure if I can keep up this pace I’ll come out of November with 40,000 words or so, halfway to my target for this project. Which means, hopefully, a first draft in early [...]
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I had a crappy week at work, and I’ve been discombobulated with the whole “between novels” thing. This all combined to put me into a weird, punchy, bad mood lately. So last week I redirected my aimlessness at Garage Band to piece together a new “theme song for a TV show that doesn’t exist” — [...]
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Hmm, it’s been a little quiet around these parts lately, eh? I’ve been on a bit of an extended break, for a variety of reasons — including the fact that some joker hijacked my homepage recently. Jenn identified the vulnerability and restored everything, but in the process I ended up with a new website theme. [...]
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As expected, the blog’s kind of taken a backseat to actual writing lately, or I would have announced this sooner: This past Carmageddon-weekend-that-wasn’t, Jenn and I went out to run some errands and accidently fell in love with a new little fellow at the Kitten Rescue event in Canoga Park. Everybody, meet our newest little [...]
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It’s been too long since I’ve posted cat photos here. Since yesterday was Oslo’s second birthday, I have the perfect excuse! Here’s a shot of our dude, a great example of why we sometimes call him “Crazyface”: And, not to be out done, here’s Cairo, looking none too impressed by his brother’s birthday: Happy birthday, [...]
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I took the week after FOGcon off from work, an unusually early vacation for me this year, but much needed. It’s been a rocky start to 2011 so far (especially for my health), so a lengthy break from work was well timed to help clear my head. Well, to figuratively clear my head anyway, as [...]
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I’ll keep this post simple: The first draft of Subnetworks is complete! I slowed down in June, but started rolling downhill in July: final word count for the month was 14,500. Final word count for the novel? Probably too long. But who cares? I finally finished it! Is it normal, when you finish a novel, [...]
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Wow, a crazy few days for our felines — especially Oslo. I’ll give you the short version since most readers here probably follow Jenn’s blog: earlier this week Oslo threw up a few hairbands. We took him to the emergency room late on Wednesday night and X-rays revealed that at some point he’d developed a [...]
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Yesterday Jenn and I made a day trip down to the San Diego Zoo’s Wild Animal Park with our friends Samantha and Chris, who were visiting from out of town. This is my second trip to the park and I had just as much fun as the first time — it’s a great, huge place [...]
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Random news and notes for a random Tuesday: Finished off season seven of MI-5 over the weekend. It was definitely not as strong as season six, but I thought it was solid; the first few episodes were top-notch, and although there were some kind of obvious moments, the final two episodes were pretty compelling. Bring [...]
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