I decided this evening that I will go to Ravencon 2007 this Saturday. It will be the first science fiction convention I’ve ever attended. Robert J. Sawyer is Guest of Honor and I’d like to meet him. And Edmund Schubert, who bought my story, “When I Kissed the Learned Astronomer”, will be there too and…
My previous post was, in part, inspired by the fact that last night I pulled off two of the oldest issues of ASTOUNDING in my collection and skimmed through them. The oldest issue in my collection is the August 1945 ASTOUNDING, which contains Isaac Asimov’s “Paradoxical Escape”, on of the positronic robot stories. Also in…
In my junior year of college, I began to take some creative writing courses as electives in my journalism minor. All told, I took 4 course, beginning, intermediate, advanced fiction, as well as metafiction. In that first beginning fiction class, I had as my professor Stephen Minot. He was a good professor but he kept…
I find that as I approach my 100th workout since December 4, 2006, I am getting a little lazy about things, a little off track. My routines are no longer as routine. Sometimes I go into the gym in the morning, sometimes at lunch, sometimes in the evening, all of which is fine if it…
I paid my taxes last night even though they are not due until tomorrow. I decided to pay them with a credit card this year because my United Mileage Plus Visa is offering double miles on tax payments. With my payment last night I earned myself somewhere in the neighborhood of 5,200 miles which should…
Walking home from the metro station this evening, I thought of an interesting question. I don’t know the answer to the question, but perhaps someone does. My question is: In this day and age, is it a practical possibility that a middle class person, making the average income for a family in the U.S. run…
I had a fairly productive day today and I have, to some extent, thank Norm and Vicky for that. They spent at least part of the weekend listening to me pour out my work sorrows in mawkish tones that I would have found unbearable were I listening to someone. But they put up with me…
I know, I know, I have not updated the blog in a few days and that’s mainly because there has been no time. I was up visiting Norm and Vicky for their church wedding and it was lots of fun and I will post all about it shortly. Please be patient. I was into the…
I was up pretty early this morning. It was Norm and Vicky who managed to sleep in late–until almost 10 AM! I treated them to breakfast at Friendly’s. We all had a craving for pancakes and I ordered their Lumberjack breakfast, worried that three pancakes would not be enough. It turned out that these pancakes…
I was up at about 7:30 Saturday morning and sat on the couch to read until Norm and Vicky got up. I heard their alarm go off at 8:30 and as soon as it went off, I could hear Vicky in a panic. She later explained that she forgot it was Saturday and thought she…