I won’t be at Baycon this year. It’s not the con membership — I earned that, which is why it’s driving me nuts to have to do this. It’s all the extraneous numbers around going. I might be able to eke out the tank of gas for getting over there and back, but I definitely […]
I need to sit down and write stuff. All sorts of stuff. Maybe, this weekend, if I get my homework done, such things will be able to happen. But the point of this post is to point to this: Small and Far Away, a one-shot fanzine created by members of the virtual fanzine lounge at […]
I’ve been feeling the urge to be a bit more private with a lot of things lately. I’m not sure if this is due to free-floating stress, an onset of depression, the ravenous anxiety beast, or other factors in my life. I’m not going to deny they all play a part. Also, time has not […]
I caught this picture of my cat Ebony on accident, but figured it’d make a great caption contest pic. You all have the floor.
I swear, if I find the entity in charge of running the universe, I’m going to give the asshole a piece of my mind. I’m absolutely frickin’ tired of him/her/it pissing on me and mine. Short of it, Mom’s in the hospital on top of everything else that this year has dumped on me so […]
New beginning, by cuellar on flickr My psychiatrist chewed me out today. I can’t say I didn’t deserve it. In fact, in all honesty, I needed to be spoken to bluntly about the subject. You see, last…oh, god, June, was it? When California was having really awful budget problems (err, well, I guess that’s still […]
New Year’s Eve Fireworks by mastermaq I wanted to write a bit more about looking back and looking forward, but I’m probably going to have to push things back a couple days into the weekend. The house is full of Jill’s brownies, with all the ruckus and noise implied by nine second and third grade […]
Candles at church, by me I’ve been doing a lot of wheelspinning lately as I try to figure out something. I haven’t figured out much in the way of conclusions because I haven’t had the time to pursue threads all the way out, but there is one thing that comes to mind. Ignore all that […]
As said, I could really use the egoboo right about now. It’s an anonymous thread, so I won’t know who you are, but I could use just a little light this holiday. Linky here.
Ebony has the right idea of what to do on this cold morning. Wish I could have crawled under the covers and went back to sleep myself.
Yeah, that’s going to be the title of the fanzine I’m putting out. And I’m looking for contributions. I have the first year pretty much planned out as to topics. (I’m going to go approximately quarterly, so that means four topics.) The first topic is ‘Beginnings’; I’ll need things by New Year’s for assembly and […]
Bookshelf cat laughs at your puny attempts to understand. (Now it’s your turn. You caption the shot.)
Success, by Kevin Thoule as found on Flickr // CC BY-NC-ND 2.0 So I got whacked between the eyes with an epiphany today. It started yesterday, actually, but it didn’t quite completely come clear until today. I was reading a book on probability and how people are notoriously bad at it (The Drunkard’s Walk: How […]
I seem to have acquired 15 Google Wave invites. They are free to good homes; leave a comment with an email if you don’t mind your email in public on the Intartubes, or toss me an email (katster AT retstak DOT org) if you do. First come, first serve, and when they’re gone, they’re gone.