I think I’ll be going into work tomorrow. I participated in two meetings from home today and my alarm is set for 4:30 AM. It will also be the first time since Tuesday that I will get to the gym. I got a call from Trevor tonight. I hadn’t talked to him in a while…
I started yet another new story tonight, making it the first time I have ever had three stories in progress at once. I don’t have a title for the new story yet, but my working title is “The Time Machine”, and it is essentially about a person with a lifelong obsession of building a time…
Robert Silverberg’s Son of Man was just not doing it for me. It is a good read, what I read so far, but my mood has changed since I started reading it and I am ready for something else. I am almost ready to switch back to some non-ficiton and I’ve got a good science…
I was up around 8 AM and had a nice big breakfast. I thought about doing some more work on the book collection database, but I decided instead to spend the day reading. I have yet to complete my third book for the year and January is almost over. Three books! Compare that to, say,…
I spent about 6-7 hours today working on interfaces for my book collection/reading list databases. It’s possible that by tomorrow I will have enough in place to make some of this more public so that people who are curious can take a look. I’m quitting for the night on this, and I’m just going to…
I got home from work at about 6 PM and I have been working on updates to the book/reading database ever since (virtually without stopping). My goal for the weekend was to (finally) get the web-based interfaces for updating the database put together and I made pretty good progress tonight. I got the interfaces for…
I finished Jack McDevitt’s The Engines of God on the train ride home this evening. I wasn’t nearly as impressed by it as I was Chindi and I think in part it’s because he took so long to get to where he was going. I’m not saying it was a bad story or even bad…
I did take it easy today. I didn’t check email or my phone messages for most of the day, and I just chilled. In fact, I skipped my workout today, which I feel guilty about since I also missed a workout on Saturday. But I do feel well-rested. All my chores are done, the laundry…
I took the day off work today as a well-needed day of rest. My flight didn’t get in until late last night. It was a pleasant flight, however. I sat next to a man who used to be a CEO of a coal mining company and we talked the entire flight. I rarely talk to…
First, jkashlock and I had a big breakfast. Remember that I didn’t eat before my workout this morning, so I was pretty hungry when it was all over. We went to a little diner on the corner of 85th and 3rd and had eggs and bacon and hash browns and toast. Then we decided to…
I got out of the office later than I wanted to this evening and finished up “Sanctuary” on the train ride home. It’s a great story and I’d recommend it to anyone who is a science fiction fan, and anyone is a fan of good storytelling. When I arrived home, I had several pieces of…