Archive for Life Updates
My day went okay on the anniversary of my father’s death (Wednesday), but I seem to have been getting more tense and irritable since then rather than less. This morning, I finished up an overdue work thing (which was good; I had been pretty tense about not getting that done), then finished packing stuff up […]
Didn’t sleep much or well on Friday night, I think mostly because I stayed up way too late reading and playing iOS games. Hung out with Karen and Pär and Jeremiah during the day on Saturday, mostly playing Terraforming Mars, which has become one of my favorite boardgames. Then came home to help Kam move […]
One of the main talking points for gun-control opponents these days goes something like this: “Chicago has the strongest gun-control laws in the country, but people kill each other all the time there. Therefore, gun-control laws don’t work.” I’ve seen that said by multiple people in the news in the past week, and I haven’t […]
I’ve been meaning to put together a brief list of some articles I’ve read about Black Panther by black writers, but hadn’t managed it yet; so here’s a longer list that includes most of the ones I was going to link to, and a bunch of others that I haven’t read yet but am looking […]
For years now, my usual morning routine has gone roughly like this: Wake up. Turn on my iPad mini. Look at Google News, and read any articles that look interesting. Post some of them to Facebook and Twitter. Read whichever of my regular webcomics have posted that day. Read Facebook, responding to posts as I […]
I was a big fan of Andre Norton’s work when I was a kid. (Yes, I do feel a little guilty that I’m writing this post when I still haven’t finished the Le Guin post that I meant to write last week. I hope to do that soon. But this post is easier to write.) […]
An old post from Facebook’s “On this day” tells me that it was about three years ago that I started...
A week or so ago, I was driving to work when I saw an unusual bicycle in the bike lane,...
Two weeks ago, I spent three days in Santa Fe and then was home sick for a while. Got no...
I’m in Santa Fe for a few days. Mary Anne is here for a Wild Cards authors gathering, and I’m...
Had a good weekend. KTO visited. Among other things, we got dinner from Everest Cuisine (tasty Nepalese & Indian food)...
Last night, after procrastinating all day on writing up my list of recent accomplishments at work (it was due yesterday),...