It’s a pretty gloomy, almost fall-like morning today. I took today off because Mom is in town and we were going to head into Annapolois, but we are waiting to see what the weather is going to be like for the rest of the day. I’m about 1/4 way through Fritz Leiber’s The Wanderer and…
I got a good night’s sleep last night, after a long day yesterday. After breakfast this morning, Mom and I went for a walk around Buddy Attick lake in Greenbelt. We then headed up to Baltimore for the Yankees game. The weather was perfect today, with great breeze blowing in off the harbor. And of…
I got to bed really late last night, and then had to be up at 5:30 this morning in order to pick up Mom from the airport. So up I was and headed to BWI. Mom’s flight was right on time. We picked up her luggage and headed back down here. She managed to get…
I packaged up “Graveyard Shift” (all 103 pages) to send off to ASIMOV’S SCIENCE FICTION, and also packaged up my short short story “Blind Date” (all 8 pages) to send off to FANTASY AND SCIENCE FICTION. This marks the first time I’ve sent “Blind Date” out since I completed the story back in February. I’ll…
When I got home from work tonight (late because of happy hour), I had a the obvious rejection, the self-addressed stamped envelope that I had sent along with the manuscript of “Graveyard Shift” to F&SF. It looks as though I got John Joseph Adams basic rejection this time, which I suppose could be considred a…
I haven’t been to visit Dan and Megan for a while now and so I decided to check the fares on United from Baltimore to LAX. Over the summer they’d been pretty outrageous. So I checked and round-trip fares are currently $218! I called Dan and asked if I could come out the weekend of…
I finished all of the programming tasks I had planned out for today 45 minutes earlier than I expected! I expected these tasks to take me all day today, but I finished up at 3:15 PM. That almost never happens! I’m not even certain I know what to do now! I’m going to happy hour…
Okay, maybe not the greatest, but one of the funniest I’ve ever seen. David Hasselholf has taken a page out of William Shatner’s book when it comes to making fun of himeself with his lastest video, “Jump In My Car”. Check it out!
I’m finally getting around to listening the new Bob Dylan album and thank god! The girl outside my office has a cell phone with a ring tone for “Ring of Fire” and it goes off when she’s not sitting there and the song has gotten into my head to the point where I am humming…
Back in April, I opened a CD with my credit union which was paying a high interest rate at the time. I pretty much forgot all about it. Today, when paying a bill online, I took a look at the CD and noted that as of August 31, I have earned $101 in interest from…