I’ve spent the morning, like I do every first day of my days off, catching up. The boring stuff, too – tidying up the kitchen, rescuing the dog from her perpetual daytime boredom, gathering my tax information for later, clipping through my RSS feeds and reading a couple of days worth of web comics, [...]
Posts Tagged ‘cat’
21 Jan
No More Pepsi
Watching the Lost premiere, very sleepy, and fending off a headache from entirely too much Pepsi consumption. Also looking over the short story that I think I will post to the OWW.
I’m wallowing in a bit of self-pity here. I’ve spent some time looking through the current submissions, feeling deeply inadequate, and then reviewing [...]
19 Oct
Heat, Sleep & Rain
There is one true sign that the seasons have changed, one piece of incontrovertible proof. It’s not the first snow fall. It’s not the leaves turning color. It’s not the Halloween decorations on display only just barely crowding out the red and green tide of Christmas not far behind.
It’s the cat. [...]
14 Aug
Installation Day
So here I am on my ‘Sunday’, with the plumbers downstairs replacing an old, rusted 4-inch collection pipe and awaiting the delivery of my fridge. I’m starting to think that my afternoon may end up being free – the plumbers don’t seem to be geared up for an all-day job (hope I haven’t just jinxed [...]
3 Apr
Freshly Squeeze Creativity
This is my first day heading into work on my own. I’ve decided to take the lazy way by taking the bus. If I time it right, I should still arrive a little early, enough to get a good seat and get myself set up for some creativity squeezed between inbound calls.
Grayson is [...]
6 Mar
Foot In The Grave
I printed out all the notes I have for Grave Robber, wanting to re-read them and get inspired thanks to that new guide book to China. And did it ever – something I’d heard last year on the BBC that had triggered a “huh….interesting” nerve in me that I noted down as a possible story [...]
5 Apr
Happier Thoughts
Today is the eve of my vacation.
Tomorrow, Todd and I will drop off the dog and then drive south to Toronto. Saturday afternoon, we will drive to the airport, board the plane, and arrive in Nevada by the time the sun has set. We will wake up Sunday morning with glorious sunshine and [...]
4 Jan
On Track
After yesterday’s dismal total of only 74,622 words (less than five hundred written, despite sitting at the computer most of the day), I resolved to do better.
Woke up, showered and dressed in ‘real people’ clothing, made my tea and then set to work. I uninstalled Firefox (I had both the 1.7 and 2.0 versions installed, [...]
3 Jan
Hard To Come By
Today’s been a struggle.
I have been turned into a jungle gym for Grayson. I have cuts up and down my arms and legs. My head hurts, I’m sleepy. Sneezing, coughing. I’ve only managed a measly 250 words so far this morning, even though I’ve finally figured out this latest scene.
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