by CJ | Jun 1, 2014 | Journal
I need to. Todd’s working on the cover, and I need to finish this by the 20th of June. I think I can. Typically when I get to a near-finished stage I do a ‘rolling rewrite’, in which I go back to the start and fill in all the detail, check...
by CJ | May 30, 2014 | Journal
I became inspired to do meatloaf, and discovered the tomatoes in the pantry expired in 2011. Now, usually stuff isn’t really bad until the can swells, but, y’know, why risk it? Those went out. The corn flakes were all gone. There were no veggies. I...
by CJ | May 30, 2014 | Journal
I became inspired to do meatloaf, and discovered the tomatoes in the pantry expired in 2011. Now, usually stuff isn’t really bad until the can swells, but, y’know, why risk it? Those went out. The corn flakes were all gone. There were no veggies. I...
by CJ | May 29, 2014 | Journal
I’d been flirting with 169 before we began to feed ourselves with pizza because we were working so hard… then the party, and the cake…followed by a long convention, being wined and dined by DAW, and oh, too many calories. I’d made it to 175...
by CJ | May 27, 2014 | Journal
We treated it as a relaxacon, mostly, and just did a few panels. We had a chance to see old friends, and new—my publishers were there, and so was Todd Lockwood, who does the Foreigner covers, so we sat down and planned the upcoming one… The kittehs love...
by CJ | May 21, 2014 | Journal
Y’know Jane and I have devolved, this spring, from diet to just ‘being pretty careful about what we eat’ —and going back on the diet any time we pile on a pound or two. Well, the wedding was a wee bit indulgent. Wine,...
by CJ | May 18, 2014 | Journal
We’re so tired today we can scarcely function, but we had a great time, the weather cooperated, the garden was in bloom, and Jane has pictures of the cake and the garden.
by CJ | May 15, 2014 | Journal
—got the stream and lotus pond finished. And I (who hate shopping) went and made the massive grocery run (well, massive for us) and got it all done. We are exhausted. But it all works! And I found everything I needed.
by CJ | May 14, 2014 | Journal
It’s a little, a very tiny Aladdin’s lamp, and some silk, a small package from the Netherlands…and some customs agent had plastered a label right over the zip code. So it took time getting to Spokane. And then it lay there because the label also had...
by CJ | May 11, 2014 | Journal
But next Saturday is forecast to be partly cloudy and a high of 72. Crossing fingers this is the case. We could also do with mild wind.
by CJ | May 10, 2014 | Journal
The mudroom. The catch-all for all the construction, the spare pumps, the tool chest and the dreaded black drawered cabinet that was supposedly for office stuff, but that was (being metal) just the thing for odd bits of the sprinkler system, staplers, glue, wiring...
by CJ | May 7, 2014 | Journal
From Jane: We just had this wonderful idea! We were going to set up a table with a “guest book” that Wiishu will man (basically a single sheet of paper :D) and put pics of all our in absentia family on it. Thinking last night of all the people we’d...
