by CJ | Sep 30, 2013 | Journal
Better now. We’re also having a spate of registrations getting past si captcha. Sigh. At least…the pond is staying crystal clear. If I felt better I’d really get after some chores that wait doing, but I’m just about marginal...
by CJ | Sep 29, 2013 | Journal
I don’t say we won’t have more warm weather, but it’s sure starting to look like fall. I wanted to let the koi have the high-protein food to the bottom of the small bag (improves color) but it blew over and got rained on. This is a sign....
by CJ | Sep 29, 2013 | Journal
I don’t say we won’t have more warm weather, but it’s sure starting to look like fall. I wanted to let the koi have the high-protein food to the bottom of the small bag (improves color) but it blew over and got rained on. This is a sign....
by CJ | Sep 28, 2013 | Journal
Pretty well. I’m not quite well, but not sick either. Drippy nose, potential for sore throat and bacterial infection if I didn’t take Theraflu and DayQuil to stop the postnasal drip. But I have. I’m sleeping late in the morning: until 8; but...
by CJ | Sep 28, 2013 | Journal
Pretty well. I’m not quite well, but not sick either. Drippy nose, potential for sore throat and bacterial infection if I didn’t take Theraflu and DayQuil to stop the postnasal drip. But I have. I’m sleeping late in the morning: until 8; but...
by CJ | Sep 27, 2013 | Journal
Are calling people, claiming to work for Microsoft—they don’t. They want to know details about your computer, and as much personal information as they can get. Don’t give them the time of day, literally. One called me, identified herself. Me,...
by CJ | Sep 27, 2013 | Journal
…which is a California convention that asks multiple sf writers to ‘game’ first contact… we came up with a planet in which, essentially, whale-sized (and voiced) oceanic creatures more resembling giant squid make it to spacefaring tech…...
by CJ | Sep 26, 2013 | Journal
It’s sort of like running a mixmaster and trying to decide how the eggs get distributed into the sugar and flour… Only more important. Atmospheric gyre affects oceans…in a way we didn’t realize
by CJ | Sep 25, 2013 | Journal
..with our friends Patty and Mike Briggs. Mike had a nasty cold. And now I think I do. Theraflu and Emergen-C are my friends. Jane is starting on them, too. Meanwhile I got the Matala filter cleaned out. It’s got 8 mats to wash, the finest of them weighing about...
by CJ | Sep 24, 2013 | Journal
Black Holes of the Ocean
by CJ | Sep 24, 2013 | Journal
Black Holes of the Ocean
by CJ | Sep 20, 2013 | Journal
Mornings are getting nippy. The koi, while active, are going to be going on winter-prep wheat germ soon. We’re looking at last bits for the garden—time to trim things up that will stay trimmed for spring, and to deprioritize those things that are going to...