The internet seems weird today. Do you think? Another bad night’s sleep, but this time I made it to 4:30, and was back asleep by 6 maybe. And slept in till only 9:30. Better? Even so. I feel better about today’s accomplishments. I didn’t finish scene 29, but it’s a much bigger one, and I […]

I had one of those nights last night, where you wake up at 4am and fret about everything, and think about the next scene in the novel you’re rewriting, and fidget, and worry about money, and think about your to-do list, and wonder if you shouldn’t just get up anyway; and nearly fall back asleep

Alas, Mark and I are finally officially admitting something that’s been pretty clear for a while: we will not have the time or money to travel to London this year. And thus we have two LonCon memberships for sale, for the $190 each that we paid. (At today’s exchange rates, that’s an almost $20 discount,

And lo, some planks were laid upon the framing, and screwed down (stop that snickering back there, I can hear you, what are you, twelve?), and there was decking! And the proud deckster. Lots more to do; plus greenhouse framing [the greenhouse is the part of the decking that goes the other direction, in that-there

On Friday, in addition to the fish-related activities previously reported on, we went to the massive building salvage place in North Portland in search of a nice old window for the greenhouse which is being built on the deck. We found one. We had all this time free to do stuff because there was a

We have now embarked upon our journey to become the fish-people-equivalent of crazy cat people: I have a Tiny Tank for my desk. It’s cloudy now, because it’s new; and there’s no fish in it, because it’s new; but look! There is, at least, a Mystery Snail. Seen here enjoying his first meal in his

Day 1: “Oh look! Silvertip tetras! What cool fish, let’s get some! Day 2: “Gosh, they’re awfully spunky!” Day 3: “Wow, they’re kind of chasey.” Day 4: “Actually they’re VERY chasey.” Day 5: “Especially that one male. He’s quite the bully, isn’t he?” Day 6: “Did you notice how that one tiny male silvertip has

That thing, that weird bright thing, it isn’t even dripping, what is it? Yeah so it was a sunny day today, as you will see in the deck-photos that follow. And it has been rather rainy, I mean REALLY rainy, so a day of not-rainy, it was nice. The constructionators appreciated it. And I? I

Some of the lumber we carried to the back of the house has been put together in such as way as to resemble the beginnings of a deck! Unfortunately, a lot of the lumber we carried to the back of the house turns out to be the wrong size of lumber. So it will have

Today a huge pile of lumber was delivered. Unfortunately, it was delivered to the street in front of the house, across the driveway. The expectation had been that it would be delivered to the back of the house, at the end of the driveway, adjacent to where the deck is being built; but that is