by CJ | Aug 6, 2010 | Journal
OSG brought us some newspaper, with which we covered the big weed/dirt/lawn scrapings pile and have poured on mulch and water…it’s about 8′ wide and about 20 feet long, and above knee high. This was a good morning’s work…before work. Back...
by CJ | Aug 5, 2010 | Journal
We got some phones from Costco a few years ago that have driven me nuts. My idea of a phone conversation, or any reasonable conversation, has two sides to it. If you do have a full duplex phone one side can give normal conversational clues to another person. In a semi...
by CJ | Aug 5, 2010 | Journal
We got some phones from Costco a few years ago that have driven me nuts. My idea of a phone conversation, or any reasonable conversation, has two sides to it. If you do have a full duplex phone one side can give normal conversational clues to another person. In a semi...
by CJ | Aug 4, 2010 | Journal
here It’s getting stranger out there…and just wait til Amazon snaps it up.
by CJ | Aug 4, 2010 | Journal
This is not the biggest leak that has ever hit the oceans: the biggest was when Saddam Hussein sabotaged the Kuwaiti oil field. And there was a massive leak in Mexican waters, there was the Exxon Valdez, and there is, almost continually, the abysmal mess in Nigeria,...
by CJ | Aug 4, 2010 | Journal
We’re still getting errors like “Rendering of template gallery-wp-eStore.php failed” —we do know about that one: thank you, Ed. That’s occurring on my stuff, Jane’s, and Lynn’s. But if others of you have time today, kind of...
by CJ | Aug 3, 2010 | Journal
Trying to run some site changes involving improved navigation and display happened (cosmic luck) to exactly correspond with Lynn’s update of the WP software….this comedy of errors has resulted in some artifacts on the CC site. It’s functional, and...
by CJ | Aug 2, 2010 | Journal
We’re in for a solar storm. Should arrive on Aug 3rd, roughly, with possibility for auroral display for those of you in the right latitudes; and I hope the astronauts on the space station get their repair done ASAP and get battened down safely.
by CJ | Aug 2, 2010 | Journal
lawsuit There is SO much oddness going on you can’t swat it all…
by CJ | Aug 2, 2010 | Journal
There’s always both regret and relief when a con is over—a delight to see friends I don’t see at any other time; but it’s tiring. Particularly tiring when the air conditioning isn’t up to snuff, and it’s August in Spokane: as...
by CJ | Jul 31, 2010 | Journal
Michael Whelan Michael’s an old friend—and we had some time to hang out. Our panel together was “Starting Out Together”, which we did—my first novel and one of his first covers. We helped each other out—me with what proved a popular...
by CJ | Jul 31, 2010 | Journal
Since it’s local and only 5 minutes from our house, we have the luxury of coming and going at need. Guests of honor are Tanya Huff and Michael Whelan. Michael and Audrey and Jane and I are old friends, and their transport is a couple of nice friends of theirs...
