Tag: metaxian

  • I'm retiring the links for today thingy

    I’m trying to do more “real” blogging here these days and I feel like my Delicious links just drown everything else out. (Also a twitter follower mentioned being interested in people’s blog posts but not their bookmarks – I am now having my blog posts send notices to twitter – and that kinda made sense…

  • word concept of the moment

    “eternity” also “forever” seen in IM status, and in the sentence i am reading right now in a story just as it is sung on the randomly selected song from my jukebox.

  • Burning Laundry

    Saturday I paid the bills, and sent a contributor (at long last) his signed copy of my last book. Monday I made an appointment for the car’s 57-month checkup and updated the contributors to my new book about the cancellation of the contract by the publisher. Tuesday I got groceries, talked to an editor about…

  • Catsup

    I’m doing myself a disservice, in this exercise, but not logging what I’m getting done daily. The whole idea is to counter the negative-sum to-do list view of life and actually log accomplishments. If they don’t measure up to the time spent, so be it, but let it be a record at least of some…

  • Small errands, loosely joined

    Finally sent a signed copy of Dreamweaver Savvy to Guy Rish, who wrote the ColdFusion chapter. He only had to ask me like ten times! Did basically nothing else today except mess around. Oh, wait. I did shovel the ruined jack o’lantern into the compost (photos to follow) and took a bunch of shots of…

  • Oven burner element replaced

    With Thanksgiving approaching, the bottom burner element in our twenty-year-old oven gave out. It took us a while to diagnose the problem. The symptoms were the oven taking much longer to come up to full heat, except when in broil mode (top burner only), and then the way my last banana bread baked, burning at…