I neglected to check the mail yesterday, but when I went out to check it this morning, I found the March 2009 issue of ANALOG waiting for me. This issue contains the conclusion of Robert J. Sawyer’s serialized novel, Wake. Now I can take all 4 issues and read the whole thing straight through before the book hits…
When I woke up this morning, I had an email telling me that my domain (jamierubin.net) was set to expire in 90 days. Many, three years goes by fast! I went ahead and renewed the domain name for 4 more years. The expiration date is now March of 2013, which seems very far off. I wonder how fast it…
We were up at 8 AM and on our way to Tyson’s Corner by about 9 AM. We wanted to get to the mall before things got crowded. Indeed, when we got there, things were not bad at all. We had to stop in a few stores to do some holiday shopping (I can’t reveal those…
My company had the holiday party this evening and Kelly and I arrived there at 5 PM. I received numerous comments on my clothes. Kelly made sure that I was sharply dressed. It was a fun evening, good food and drinks, and good company too. At around 7 PM they started the raffle (each person attending…
I’m usually not successful at reading more than one book at a time, but I’ve never tried reading a non-fiction book at the same time I’m reading a book of short fiction. It seems like between chapters of one, I can read a story or two in the other, and vice versa. This is what…
I’m in one of those phases where I can’t decide on what I want to read. I read and enjoyed Jack McDevitt’s Cauldron. I was looking for something more like that (based on my mood), but I was also yearning for short fiction. I started on C. M. Kornbluth’s short fiction collection, His Share of Glory, but decided thatwasn’t quite right…
A very big HAPPY BIRTHDAY goes out to bigblu4 , who is spending his big day on the East Coast this year. Looks like he even got a present from the weather. While it’s overcast and a little rainy, it’s nearly 60 degrees in NYC at the moment. In fact, the weather is eerily like the…
Did a little bit of work on "Origins" at lunch today. What a tough story to get started. The setting is a very difficult one for me to imagine and the problem the characters are dealing with is a thorny one. Nevertheless, I got 477 words written. I also delete some of what I had previously written, which…
When we left for work this morning, the garage door wouldn’t close again, and I nearly exploded. I drove into the office in a deep funk, and called the Avalon community phone number. The message told me that while the office opened at 9 AM, they didn’t answer phones between 9 and 10 AM. Fine. I fumed…