For some reason, writers can’t seem to get together without calling it a con. I guess so we can write it off. Tonight, Ken Scholes invited a slew of writers down to the Barley Mill Pub to meet Aimee Amodio, who is every bit as funny and delightful as Ken promised. So nice when a […]
My cat Maggie is sitting on my lap while I write for the first time since Monday when Zamboni arrived. Zamboni is a very well-behaved, but exuberant black Labrador. She hasn’t met cats before, so her natural reaction is to lunge and back. We’ve been bringing Maggie downstairs and praising Zamboni is she doesn’t lunge
Thursday, October 22, 1998Day Fifteen Ah- life on the road… Sungura broke again. But it was a new problem this time! How exciting. He has two joints in his neck. One at the base of the head and one at the base of the neck, where it joins his body. Up until now I’d been
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I’m not sure I’ve ever heard Rob laugh as hard as he did while watching this video of cars sliding down Salmon and 20th on our snow day. It satisfies me in some way, that the only car which successfully navigates the turn was not an SUV, but a simple sedan.
Wednesday, October 21, 1998Day Fourteen Today we had a little bit of the excitement that makes live theater so fun. Sungura’s ear fell off while he was on stage. I don’t think I’ve mentioned this, but he never leaves the stage once the show starts. It was actually quite amusing. We-ha comes on stage and
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I spotted this on BoingBoing. I’ve got a weakness for automaton and wind-up toys. I had read about this writing automaton so it’s fairly amazing to see it in action. In the eighteenth century, 200 years before little ASIMO started to walk or to climb stairs, the great Jaquet-Droz built an automaton which could scrawl
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Yesterday morning, Christina’s movers arrived to move her things into the house. We had in mostly cleared for them, but I don’t think any of us anticipated the scale of the furniture when it’s transported into a 1907 house. Things from California are big. Our cats have taken to living upstairs; we’ve moved the litter
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Tuesday, October 20, 1998Day Thirteen Sorry about the hiatus in updates, but I have the power cord for my computer again. A quick summary of Tuesday. I thought I had fixed Sungura and he was mostly better, but of course, broke again. I just don’t have the right tools on tour to fix him. But
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Much to our surprise, it’s snowing today. It’s the first real snow that I’ve had in Portland in years. I know it’s snowed here more recently, but I always manage to be out of town somehow. You’d think, after spending a year in Iceland, that I wouldn’t be as excited as I am. On the
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Friday, October 16, 1998Day Eleven Today started at 6:30am. It’s our last day in Seattle so we had to pack our luggage into the van. Fortunately we both pack light. The show itself was in a small town outside of Seattle. We found it with no problems, but it was an old school so Joe
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I’ve just learned that my short story “Rampion” is going to appear in the anthology Prime Codex by Paper Golem Press, Lawrence Schoen and Michael Livingston, editors.
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Fellow Codexian, Christina Crooks has arrived to stay with us for the next three months. While she’s here, she’ll be shopping for a house while we pack up ours. Yay! Moving boxes, galore!
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Thursday, October 15, 1998Day Ten Today began at 7:00am for me. Joe got up at 6:30 to handle his e-mail. You will all be happy to know that we found both of our schools without incident. The first school had a really lovely loadin. Notice the covered area next to the door. Unfortunately the students
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We began moving things down to the storage locker today. It feels strange to be dismantling the house like this. It’s also fairly disorienting. I’m certain that we’ll get to New York and I’ll open a box and wonder, “Why did I bring this?” Our next wave of stuff goes out tomorrow. I’ve also become
I’m emptying my basement. I have loads of stuff that aren’t going with us to NYC. If you are in the Portland, OR area and are willing to come pick things up, you can score on foam, ribbons, fabric, glue and lumber. Email me and I’ll give you my contact info. I also have several
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