I made it for over a week after Scotland and all the attendant travel, but it looks like the Worldcon COVID wave has finally caught up with me. (My wife tested positive on the weekend and has been mildly sick ever since, so I knew it would only be a matter of time.) The weird…
Category: castle frostbite.
Klohund training
This is the tip bowl we keep on our bathroom counter. Who needs a tip bowl in the bathroom, you may wonder, and why is it filled with cereal? Well, imagine you have a dachshund who is scared of the shower, and getting her bathed is always a stressful endeavor for both parties. One day,…
Spicy Pillow Syndrome
I was typing on my old MacBook Pro today and noticed that the bottom case was wobbling back and forth a little despite being on a flat desk. I grabbed my trusty iFixit toolkit, took off the case bottom, and found this: That’s what we call a “spicy pillow”, a lithium-ion battery that has…
Quick office tour, February of twenty-four
I had to clean up and reorganize the desk today, so I took a picture of its pristine state while it lasts. The artwork on the wall: John Picacio cover for one of my Tor.com Wild Cards stories, Michael Komarck cover for LOW CHICAGO featuring my character Khan, and (above the pulse rifle prop…
17AUG23
I don’t have much to report because I am busy pushing this draft along (as you can see on the progress meter in the sidebar), so have a picture of a Dinky Dog in her favorite habitat–a cozy dog bed in a kitchen where there’s food preparation in progress. I’m a slow correspondent at the…
ARCs and progress bars and also Readercon
The ARCs for SCORPIO are in, which officially means it’s a real, actual book now. The eagle-eyed among you will have noticed that the progress bar for DESCENT hasn’t moved a whole lot in the last two weeks. That’s because the whole family came down with COVID two weeks ago, and now that we have…
Not a sponsored post (but I’m available for endorsements)
After five and a half years of steadfast and reliable service, I semi-retired The Beast, a 17″ Alienware laptop. I replaced it with…another 17″ Alienware laptop. The Beast served me so well that I decided to go the same route for its replacement. I stuck with the same brand and screen size, picked a model…
Boneless Andy
Dog broke. Please advise.
Worst criminal ever
I don’t think I need to hire an investigator to find the identity of the culprit who stole a handful of animal crackers from the low table next to the recliner.
Achtung! Kein Kinderlakritz!
“An acquired taste is an appreciation for something unlikely to be enjoyed by a person who has not had substantial exposure to it. It is the opposite of innate taste, which is the appreciation for things that are enjoyable by most persons without prior exposure to them.” –Wikipedia I explained the concept of acquired taste…