Last Week’s Goals All blog entries posted on schedule. All my shopped stories were returned to markets as soon as they arrived home. I wrote on five days and made my daily quota on three of those. I failed to make my weekly quota, with only 2,350 words of fiction (applied against Swordsmaster #3.) Of … Continue reading
Last week’s goals: I made my weekly quota of blog posts, as well as reciprocal likes and comments (actually, there are no reciprocal comments – I leave them for others, but I just don’t seem to be inspiring comments from others. The ePublication of “A Tail of Two Species” has been attended to (it’s currently … Continue reading
I saw a tweet someone had posted about antivaxers – I’d never seen the word before, so I had to look it up (so I live under a rock – sue me.) Antivaxers are people who are opposed to vaccinations – afraid to give them to their kids because there might be adverse effects. I … Continue reading
Why is it so important for the weatherman to tell me what the heat index is going to be? It’s not bad enough it will be in the mid 90’s, you have to tell me it will feel like 104 degrees? (How do you know what temperature it FEELS like? That seems a bit subjective, … Continue reading
Who gets the LAURELS – the side with the pretty uniforms, or the victor? Back when I used to play chess, I wasn’t a finesse player. I would send my minions charging around the board, searching for unprotected pieces to destroy. I would take so many of these by sheer, brute force that my opponent … Continue reading
We’re horribly dependent on technology. Sometimes it’s a good thing, but there are hidden costs. You might remember when calculators showed up on the scene, and people started arguing about whether they should be allowed in school. Wait a minute – most of you probably don’t remember any of that, and some may not even … Continue reading
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