For the first time I can remember (at least in the last 10 years), I somehow managed to forget to set my alarm last night. Normally, this doesn’t matter because I wake up a few minutes before my alarm goes off anyway. But this morning, I woke up at 5:30 AM (about half and hour…
There may be a downside to having a lot of music. I have over 2,800 songs on my iPod and in iTunes. Back in January, I ranted about some difficulty I had figuring out a song from just its lyrics. The song, regular readers will recall, was ultimately discovered to be “Tiny Tears” by the…
I came across the following blog entry skimming the list of most-recent blog entries on livejournal. It cracked me up. All it said was: guess what i found out today? apparently, i’m in love with a stripper. How’s that for news!
March is here and that means that spring is just around the corner! End of March/beginning of April is one of my favorite times of the year. It starts to warm up, the cold days of the winter disappear, replaced by green. Grass starts to grow fast. For nearly 20 years, I missed this living…
I finished the first draft of “The Graveyard Shift” just a few minutes ago and at 16,500 words, it’s about the longest story that I’ve ever written. About 85 manuscript pages. It also needs a lot of work, especially in pacing, character development and the resolution to the story at the end. But all-in-all, I…
Hey, when you post a comment, can you at least indicate who you are, you know, maybe sign your name or something. I’ve got anonymous comments turned on, mainly so that people don’t have to get a livejournal account to post, but it would be nice to be able to tell who is posting what.…
Last night, before dozing off, I was scanning blogs and came across an interesting looking reading list of books. It had a domain name of something like bestmustreadbooksever.com or something like that. I made a mental note to remember it because I wanted to compare it to my own list to see how many of…
Those were the watchwords of my day at work today. One of the projects on which I am working involves integrating two systems that don’t talk to each other. One system is an off-the-shelf meeting room reservation system; the other product is a tasking application–a helpdesk trouble ticket system. Integration went pretty well, until a…
One more session and I will be done with the first draft. I did about 2,000 words tonight, putting the story right at 15,000 words. I figure another 1,500 or so will finish it up, at least of the first draft. I reached the climax tonight, but I had to stop in the middle of…
Okay, okay, I saw this and couldn’t resist taking it. I rushed. It shows. Here are my shameful results: Your IQ Is 125 Your Logical Intelligence is Below Average Your Verbal Intelligence is Genius Your Mathematical Intelligence is Exceptional Your General Knowledge is Exceptional A Quick and Dirty IQ Test (Incidentally, the one and only…