Morris the Catfish, RIP. I don’t know what happened–he was fine earlier today–but this evening after feeding time I noticed Beatrice flitting all about, and I realized I hadn’t seen Morris in a while…he was back behind his favorite piece of petrified wood (shown in the picture), and the shrimp had already found him. So […]

I’d stopped doing Ashtanga months ago, because my back was hurting; but then I recently started trying to do it again. As I think I mentioned. At first it was hard, it was like I’d never done the practice before. Then it got a little easier, but even when I got more comfortable with it,

I got most of the fallen tree/bush cleared off the neighbor’s property today; I’ll need a saw to take apart the biggest parts of the trunk. While I was clipping the branches into smaller bits so they’d fit in the yard waste bin, it started pouring. So I gave up after a while and came

When I didn’t have a “real” job, I kind of lost the difference between weekdays and weekends–except that weekends were, annoyingly, the times when suddenly things would be closed when you needed to go there (like the post office), or crowded when you needed to go there (like Trader Joe’s). On the other hand, weekends

Well the snow ended, alas, almost before it started; today was the day that we got all the rain we were supposed to have all winter up till now. (And, in extreme weather weirdness, I note that Seattle (which I pay some attention to) has been twenty-plus degrees colder than Portland, and is having all

It will be weird to have a day without internet, but you know? It will be fine too. I have hard-copy proofreading to do, a novel to write, real estate homework to do… Oh and we might be all covered in snow. Here’s what it looks like now, after raining all day: Dark, but hey,

I just registered for FogCon, which is a totally fabulous new genre con in the San Francisco Bay Area. Last year was its first year; I attended and had a great time. My friend the Ogre has asked that I share the official blurb: “Friends of the Genre (FOGcon) is a literary-themed San Francisco Bay

The open house went really well! Despite the fact that it snowed like crazy! In fact, during the heaviest snowfall, when the whole world was a giant snowglobe, was when I had the most visitors. Go figure! Well it gave us all something to talk about. 🙂 Seventeen people came through (but that counts the

I didn’t get a chance to work on Hobgoblin yesterday or today, but I had two really important thoughts/insights about the plot, that will help so much going forward…at least I’ve jotted them down, so that when I DO get a chance to write again, they’ll still be there. The days have been busy, little-bits-and-pieces

Wow, everyone who commented on my “LOOK AT MY SHAMBLES OF DESK AND TABLE” post was distinctly unimpressed. “Bah!” you all said. “That is nothing! My levels of chaos laugh in the face of your measly little stacks of cutely organized randomness!” And that is terrifying!! Doesn’t the universe just fly apart when things are