Happy birthday, Andrew! I really should post a picture here, as is my habit, but I can’t figure out how to do it from the phone. Just imagine a picture of nine penguins, or a photo of christopher eccleston here for now, okay? update: look! I sort of figured out how. Behold, nine penguins!

Got back from Marscon unscathed. I am tired now. That we got there at all was really the story of the con itself, though. Before our original planned departure, I hopped online in order to check the address for our hotel, only to find that the reservations I thought I had made weeks ago didn’t […]

…Con. That’s where we’ll be heading in a few hours – Marscon, in lovely Williamsburg VA, to rub shoulders with science fiction authors, artists, and fans all weekend, and hopefully have a little fun and a bit of an escape from all that work. So, don’t go looking for me. Don’t worry, I’ll say hello […]

Not a bad day here, overall. Snow’s just started falling, though the meteorologist guys say that it’s not going to be the huge storm they were threatening last week. I sit typing at my keyboard with the dulcet tones (or not) of the eldest’s rock tumbler rolling away polishing some semi-precious stones. At the other […]

Happy Solstice, everyone. Extra neat this year, given the total lunar eclipse last night. The view was quite good from my driveway between 2 and 3am last night, though you’d never know it from the photo above. The kids made it about fifteen minutes before deciding they were too cold.

The youngster decided that this was worth sharing with the world at large. Note that this video does not include her commentary: Really, everyone loves a good silly baby animal video, especially when they’re done working for the calendar year.

<intentionaljoketag>generic blurb about how I have nothing to report</intentionaljoketag> Anyone who’s watching the mileage tick up on the left side of this web page has probably figured out that my five-to-six days a week workout has become habit, and if I don’t get it, I just don’t feel entirely right, mostly because I’m getting to […]

Thanksgiving and Black Friday have now passed. Today we enter that time of year when compulsory merriment is the order of the day, and more and more people manage to make the phrase “Merry Christmas” sound a lot more like “F**K YOU!” than anything else. <sarcasm>This, my friends, is my favorite time of year.</sarcasm> As […]

I don’t really have anything of particular note to report. That is, other than my compulsion to continue to add new prose to this space at least every few days. That isn’t to say that I haven’t been busy. It’s just that I’ve been busy with things like work and family and NaNoWriMo and reading […]

Things went on a little bit longer than usual at the office on Thursday; long enough to miss the narrow window of time that would have gotten me home ahead of DC rush hour. As a result, it took me almost five hours in a soaking gray rain to get home last night. It wasn’t […]