Here is the roundup for 2008: Writing Short fiction pieces started: 5 Short fiction pieces finished: 2 Novels started: 1 Novels finished: 0 Short fiction words: ~25,000 Novel words: 2,700 Total fiction: 27,700 words Story submissions: 3 Rewrite requests: 1 Rejections: 2 Outstanding: 1 Science fiction conventions: 2 Blog posts: 170,000 words Reading Total books:…
Skimming through my 2000 diary, I found the following sad entry from Friday, March 10, 2000: 11 PM. Just discovered that the May 2000 SF Age will be the last! Fired off an email to Scott Edelman to see if this is true. A few days later, I called the magazine and sure enough, the…
Today’s Dilbert often describes me. Not with death but with bodily functions. Especially vomiting.
Four years ago today, I gave up caffeine and I’ve been caffeine-free ever since. I can’t believe it’s been four years. Man, does the time fly!
I got a haircut yesterday and while snipping away at my hair, the stylist asked me, “Do you have any New Years resolutions?” Well, I don’t really do New Years resolutions. If I resolved to do something, I usually start right away. I see no need of picking an arbitrary point. Why put off tomorrow…
There are a few things that I have been thinking about getting for a long time now, but for reason, I keep putting them off: 1. A new bookshelf. My 7 other bookshelves are bursting at the seams. A new bookshelf might relieve some of the strain. Problem is, I have nowhere to put it.…
Yesterday I did some serious, Rocky Balboa-style, leg lifts and today my entire rib cage and upper abs are sore. Very sore. But that’s good because it means I’m really working those muscles. I also upped the weights on my kickbacks (delts) and those muscles are sore which is unusual. In fact, I’m getting into…
Today was a lazy day for me. For one thing, I did not end up going to the gym today. For another, I slept a lot. I didn’t get up until 9 AM, which is late for me. After breakfast, I lazed around, watching TV until just after noon, when I decided to read. That…
I’m home, and pretty tired, so I’m off to bed. Looking forward to a big breakfast in the morning…
I came across this interesting meme while browsing Edmund Schubert’s blog this morning and I figured I’d give it a whirl. The rules are simple: The next blog entry you post has to list 5 things that no one (or very few people) knows about you. So here I go: