Jane's too busy to post this—we're installing new lights…

by | Feb 12, 2011 | Journal

she’s working on her story—or trying to. We go out to the car (detached garage) to go to Home Depot and pick up our lights for the basement (we’re installing daylight white fluorescent in place of yellow nastiness of 2-bulb incandescents.) No power...

Chaos, Inc. –or—our place.

by | Feb 9, 2011 | Journal

We got ready to go skating today and got a call first from Joan asking if Sharon was going to be there and then a call from Sharon warning us that school buses with 90 kids had just arrived. We cancelled. The ceiling lights Home Depot had run out of were supposed to...

Going mildly crazy…

by | Feb 7, 2011 | Journal

I don’t do short stories while writing a novel, with rare exception—-Seeking North will be easy to maintain; but…I had promised to do a bit for Janet Morris for a Thieves World piece; and a bit for Janet for Lawyers in Hell; and I have a debt of...

moving any file into your Kindle or other device

by | Feb 3, 2011 | Journal

People have asked if Seeking North can be gotten onto a Kindle. Just treat your Kindle or other device as a flash drive: first download a file (swipe it to your notepad), then convert it via your word processor to pdf, then use the USB cord to transfer the pdf, as I...

planets all over the place…kepler goes hunting.

by | Feb 2, 2011 | Journal

http://www.time.com/time/health/article/0,8599,2045835,00.html?hpt=T2 The ‘new’ wrinkle in the search for exoplanets is that, far from pooh-poohing supergiant planets as ‘no likely life’, discoveries in our own solar system, including our own...

bane of our lives—16" of 3" cast iron drain pipe…

by | Feb 1, 2011 | Journal

jutting sideways mid-corner from its origin and passing the sink drain on the new sink. This would be solvable, except the garbage disposal on the other side of the sink has a connector headed for the same drain. Now imagine: drain A needs a p-trap, one of those...

bane of our lives—16″ of 3″ cast iron drain pipe…

by | Feb 1, 2011 | Journal

jutting sideways mid-corner from its origin and passing the sink drain on the new sink. This would be solvable, except the garbage disposal on the other side of the sink has a connector headed for the same drain. Now imagine: drain A needs a p-trap, one of those...