t has been a while since I’ve posted an update on the Little Man–now 3-1/2–and the Little Miss–now 15 months. This is probably a relief to some and a sin to others and exemplifies the adage, “you can’t please everyone all the time.” But since it is my blog and I am in charge around here,…
finished the first part of my Lord of the Rings reread the other day, having completed Part 1 of the book: “The Fellowship of the Ring.” Since it’s been about 30 years since I last read these books, much of what I know of the story comes from the movies and not my original reading of…
arlier today, on Facebook, Evernote Fitness Ambassador, Chad Williams, asked “If your keyboard had feelings, what would it say about you?” I jokingly replied that my keyboard would say, “Slow down!” But when I got home this evening, I looked into it a little further. Because, in a way, my keyboard can talk. As part of…
o I mentioned something about a vacation on the previous post. I do take them from time-to-time, and in recent years those times seem to fall at the end of the year. We have house-sitters and pet-sitters squared away and indeed we’ll be heading on a well-deserved vacation in just a little over a week.…
n Monday, I posted about my new ThinkGeek Bag of Holding and how it contains my entire mobile paperless office within its TARDIS-like interior. There was one crucial item missing at the time. Indeed, I received the item the very evening I made the post and it has since been added to my Bag of…
s I announced on Facebook yesterday, my story, “Situational Awareness” will appear in Issue #2 of Blue Shift magazine, a new magazine making its debut early in 2013. The magazine is edited by Bryan Thomas Schmidt and he announced the lineups for the first two issues (here and here) on Facebook yesterday. Those lineups look pretty…
am a member of the Young Gunns, a group of writers who have completed one of James Gunn‘s science fiction writing programs1 and yesterday I was updating the other members on my recent writing accomplishments. As I made the list of recent sales and story appearances, I was rather astounded at just how many I’d…
ast month Evernote released version 5 for the Macintosh desktop clients. It was a fairly extensive release packed with all kinds of cool new features. Now that I’ve had some time to use it and get to know it, I’ve got a few tips to share how it can help you go paperless and be…
very since I started on my journey to go paperless, I have found that I can carry less and less around with me and still be just as productive. One consequence is that, while I used a rather large backpack to lug things to and from where I was going, I made less and less…