First off, I know my hometown is rather Republican. It’s part of the reason I don’t always feel comfortable up there, but people have a right to their politics despite how much I may disagree with them. But this video makes me embarrassed to be from Redding: Alright, so again, there’s a first amendment right […]
At work, trying to get things done. There’s an interesting concept. Anyway, let’s begin with a picture: I am absolutely sure that isn’t what they meant, but I got a pretty good chuckle out of it. So, I went to the Bay Area. Things I did: Went to the Office of Letters and Light (the […]
I’m going over to the Bay Area today after I go take a shower and get out the door. My main reason for the trip is to see as he continues his whirlwind TAFF trip through the North American continent. He should be at tonight’s BASFA meeting, which works for me as I’ve been looking […]
so here, have a cat picture: That’s Ebony, inside a paper bag I brought home from the yard sale today. I’m not feeling especially profound lately. I’m not quite sure that this is a depressive state, but it sorta feels like it. Either way, I could use your good thoughts.
So another Worldcon winds down. If all goes well, I should be at the next one, but at the moment I’m not expecting it to go well. However, unless things go absolutely pear-shaped, I’ll be at the one in 2011, since, y’know, it’s just over the hill from Sactown. But that’s not the point of […]
God, has it been nearly two weeks since I bothered to update my blog? Ah, here, have a picture: I took this at the Rivercats game last night. It’s the first time I’ve been out to Raley Field, and, while the Cats sucked rocks through a bendy straw last night, it was a perfect night […]
So I’m at work, and I’m reading up on how to write a functional specification, which seems to be my next task. Now, I’ve never written one of these before, so the Google is my friend. I stumbled across Joe Spolsky’s blog in my search for how to write one of these, and in reading […]
(1) I’ve neglected my blog again. Sorry about that — I’ll endeavor to do better. (2) If you are waiting on a response from me and have wrote me within the last week, I’m getting to it. It’s been a busy weekend, but the next two ought to be relatively calm as the folks won’t […]
I think I’ve found a way to get this printed at something resembling reasonable, but yeah, postage costs are going to kill me in more ways than one. Ah well, this is why I made this a quarterly production. Anyway, the deadline for R&P 1 is this Friday, July 17th. I want to do pastework […]
Next time the sign at the I-80/Cap City exchange reads something like: ACCIDENT AT TRUXEL ROAD USE ALTERNATE ROUTES I will heed the warning and not go “Well, how bad could it be?” Well, crawling three miles in forty-five minutes is about how bad it could be. California Highway Patrol officials said the truck was […]
Yeesh, my new hobby is shaping up to be somewhat expensive. I wandered around Office Depot trying to get a bead on pricing, and yeesh. Mailing labels are about $10 for 250, manilla envelopes are about $10 for a hundred, and that’s not even counting the costs of printing and postage. I begin to see […]
I’ve put together my ballots for both the 2011 Worldcon and 2010 NASFiC, and am heading off to mail them, along with my mother’s job application. I also have to go to the library and straighten out a technological problem — the new self-checkout machines are awesome, but if they don’t record that I’ve paid […]
I’m still at them. Although I’ve discovered once again that the carpet in my room is red. (Also, we’re not going to talk about the closet — the closet will get handled in the next stage, which is called ‘one box a night’. I have learned a few things: Cleaning rooms, especially when I’ve let […]