by CJ | Aug 7, 2009 | Journal
Couldn’t believe it. It burned for 4 hours and died. We now have a new lamp, and we took the metal halide’s ballast apart to be sure the starter hadn’t blown. Must have been new-thingie-syndrome. One more trip to the Valley, but this time at least we...
by CJ | Aug 6, 2009 | Journal
…after getting a new one..(or its parts)…it didn’t fit. We did get a foxfaced rabbitfish (one-spot variety) to eat the cursed caulerpa weed (see Discovery Channel: Killer Algae) which has been the bane of this tank setup. But the tang hated him. We...
by CJ | Aug 4, 2009 | Journal
I got a little work done this morning. We went out shopping for hose washers (yep) so we don’t have a leak in the back yard. But a little after that I came down with a rare case of the hungries…I mean, if I didn’t get food in the next fifteen...
by CJ | Aug 3, 2009 | Journal
Jane spent the time trying to get the marine tank into shape: I came back to discover she’d bravely resolved the plumbing problems with the tank, moved and cleaned all the equipment, worked out the water quality problem…What more can you ask? I have more...
by CJ | Jul 26, 2009 | Journal
My mother passed away yesterday. She was in her late nineties. She stood about five four, the granddaughter of western pioneers: she was born in an Oklahoma farmhouse just after statehood, and didn’t have a birth certificate until it began to matter. She grew...
by CJ | Jul 24, 2009 | Journal
…and had a real nice birthday lunch at Anthony’s for Sharon, with Joan. We had the corner window seats, by the falls. Salmon fish and chips, yum. The only possible flaw in it was the chips, which, I swear I’m going to drop a note to the chef, are...
by CJ | Jul 24, 2009 | Journal
…and had a real nice birthday lunch at Anthony’s for Sharon, with Joan. We had the corner window seats, by the falls. Salmon fish and chips, yum. The only possible flaw in it was the chips, which, I swear I’m going to drop a note to the chef, are...
by CJ | Jul 23, 2009 | Journal
She has a neat slideshow up on her site. And I’m going to have to design a new cover for Rusalka.
by CJ | Jul 23, 2009 | Journal
She has a neat slideshow up on her site. And I’m going to have to design a new cover for Rusalka.
by CJ | Jul 22, 2009 | Journal
Downbelow Station was the book that convinced me I had to get into computers. First Don Wollheim (DAW) said it was too long and maybe I didn’t need all the scene-setting: you know that book has a lot of scene-shifts, some scenes only 10 lines long. So I rewrote...
by CJ | Jul 21, 2009 | Journal
We have not found many glitchs with the Savio brand pond kit. Everything has worked as advertised: it’s virtually maintenance free, never has to be drained, is very, very clear to the bottom (brown-tinted, but clear)—and does not make a lot of...
by CJ | Jul 20, 2009 | Journal
www.tor.com asked me to do a short piece for their series on the moon landing. Which I did, if you’re interested.
