by CJ | Nov 7, 2012 | Journal
The pump is pulled…the heaters are installed; the waterfall is now silent and drained. There are still things to be cleaned up, but the water faucets are all disconnected, the solar lights are wrapped and stored, our occasional fairies and seagulls are boxed and...
by CJ | Nov 5, 2012 | Journal
…the koi have been up and about all fall, not going to sleep yet. They’re uncommonly nervy: I wonder if they don’t perceive our near water level lines as some sort of protection. They’ve never been so out and about. But that’s about to...
by CJ | Nov 2, 2012 | Journal
…geographically, that is. Is it somewhere you once lived? A particular place? The answers there were scattered and whimsically interesting. Mine very rarely involve people I know, and they don’t involve people I write about—though sometimes...
by CJ | Oct 31, 2012 | Journal
We miss having all the kids—back in the day, I used to give away a whole grocery bag of candy, but that was in a quiet neighborhood. Here we’re on an arterial on one side, with 4-5 houses between us and another arterial, and kids who don’t live in...
by CJ | Oct 30, 2012 | Journal
…sort of like a self-appendectomy, us trying to test it has problems. But enough people have tried it and failed that we are sure it is most sincerely screwed. We are trying to find the problem. If you need an updated file, write to me at...
by CJ | Oct 30, 2012 | Journal
I have no way to know (and those in the affected areas may have no way to report) but we are concerned. Stay safe, please. One resource: “**REDCROSS” (**73327677) on your smartphone: they have a free app that will tell you nearest shelters and what’s...
by CJ | Oct 30, 2012 | Journal
Jane has a spot for it, and a cutoff date: TELL JANE ABOUT AN ERROR IN AN E-BOOK: WITH CUTOFF DATES
by CJ | Oct 29, 2012 | Journal
When we fixed the Deliberations glitch, we had to haul the html back into WordPerfect, then retranslate to html. This process apparently proliferated yet ANOTHER glitch, causing a weird character to pop up in the text — in some browsers— So if you are not...
by CJ | Oct 28, 2012 | Journal
This is an unusual event: when meteorologists say this is a ‘historic’ storm and a combination of events which will accelerate the storm in its last stages into a sharp turn, and drive the central pressure below the 955 MB it was last night. Pressure...
by CJ | Oct 28, 2012 | Journal
This is an unusual event: when meteorologists say this is a ‘historic’ storm and a combination of events which will accelerate the storm in its last stages into a sharp turn, and drive the central pressure below the 955 MB it was last night. Pressure...
by CJ | Oct 26, 2012 | Journal
…plus the emotional strain of putting out a book she’s fought for literally for more than ten years and the rewrite of a series that goes back further than that She’s decided, being totally done in, to let me filter comments for her—which I...
by CJ | Oct 25, 2012 | Journal
TYPO: Closed Circle has a policy of creating a new file for all purchasers when there is a “significant” typo, and there was, in Deliberations. I have e-mailed all of you who purchased Deliberations before the fix, giving you a link to request a new...
