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Wave Without A Shore

New machine is coming. I get to go through all the hassle of reloading all the software. Ugh. Oh joy, oh rapture. But I'm going to be a little slow communicating through this mess. Current computer state: up and running, but I'm not going to shut her down until the...

I tend to reject as robots names that are alphabet soup or that have certain linguistic tics. I won't say which, but say that Derp is not going to get admitted.

They come in sets of 3. For a gold-plated no-prize (Marvel comics style: you may know there is truly no prize)---let's hear your ideas.

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Poor thing had been delayed: the anniversary for which we bought it for each other was the 17th May, and then life intervened again and the lad who plants got sick and then we had to be in Seattle---today, the stars all came together. The beautiful lilac we bought was...

I'm outlining both the new Bren book and the second Alliance Rising book, after story-conferencing with Jane on the trip. Jane is finishing up the kitchen painting and a little wall-repair where we had some electrical revisions. I've cleaned the pond filters and...

Road trip. And road debris. Came on a truck tread coiled up in bridge shadow, and had a split second to decide not to try to avoid it---could have wrapped around a tire and taken a fender out. But then I think "OMG! Prius!" because we are low. Wham! We shot it between...

5000 gallon pond. 25' x 15'. Ordinarily spring start-up involves closing a drain, inserting a few filter pads, flipping a switch, pulling the cover off the winter-pit (deep spot), and adding 3 cups of pond balance pink stuff. The fish, sleeping through the winter,...

Yay us!

...to follow Alliance Rising. We know where we take up.

...over on the sidebar to the right and I can easily get you back out of the pile. You have to write me an e-mail, simply put. I hate doing this, because I want to believe all applicants are good and true, but I give them a week (more in this instance, because we've...

Which means the kitchen nearly is---a lot of fiddly chipping of excess mastic (glue) before grouting, occasional replacement of a bit of tile where the match is less pleasing. It's stretched into the second week, but we're getting there. And we have---wait for...