Your Monday moment of zen.
South Dakota survivor. © 2006, 2010, Joseph E. Lake, Jr.
This work by Joseph E. Lake, Jr. is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 United States License.
Posted: 4:25 am Mon July 26 2010 | Comments(0) |
Jerry Gordon reviews Dark Faith at SF Signal — He liked my story.
Realms of Fantasy, October, 2010 — Look, it’s me!
John Scalzi on mid-career advice — From the department of recursive auto-linking.
Digital Tools for Making Brilliant Mistakes — Imperfections attract, or at least that must be the guiding belief behind a new digital camera described on an e-commerce site as producing “a soft, out-of-focus feel that brings back the feeling of your old Super 8mm home movies.” (Thanks to my Dad.)
Transgender(ed) — Grammatical arguments about identity and labeling.
World’s Best Preserved Crater Found Using Google Earth — This is cool.
BP’s tree fell on my lawn — Roger Ebert on corporate shielding from accountability.
?otD: Did you miss me yesterday?
7/26/2010
Writing time yesterday: 0 hours (travel day from Writers Weekend)
Body movement: Airport walking
Hours slept: 7.0 (interrupted)
This morning’s weigh-in: 236.0 (yikes!)
Yesterday’s chemo stress index: 4/10 (fatigue, peripheral neuropathy)
Currently (re)reading: Heretics of Dune by Frank Herbert
Posted: 4:21 am Mon July 26 2010 | Comments(2) |
Writer’s Weekend was a blast. I, of course, overdid it mightily and collapsed early last night, just as the party was getting rolling. calendula_witch and I had a good carpool back with maclark2005 and davidlevine. Now hanging with the_child, who did some major clean-up on Nuevo Rancho Lake in my absence. Off to Omaha at oh:dark:stupid tomorrow. You may also expect regular blogging service to resume tomorrow, modulo vagaries of my travel schedule.
Posted: 5:03 pm Sun July 25 2010 | Comments(2) |
At Writer’s Weekend in scenic Moclips, WA. My first critique group session went well, a beach was walked (in a driving 30 mph fog), and I hot tubbed. That last made me warmer than I’ve been in months. I could almost live in there, thanks to peripheral neuropathy. Also got a bit of writing/editing/WRPA done, and some very nice writerly socializing.
Another day today much like yesterday’s. Which would be just dandy with me.
Posted: 8:22 am Sat July 24 2010 | Comments(1) |
Your Saturday moment of zen.
Folk art, South Dakota. © 2006, 2010, Joseph E. Lake, Jr.
This work by Joseph E. Lake, Jr. is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 United States License.
Posted: 8:16 am Sat July 24 2010 | Comments(3) |
Review: Metatropolis — Not so much with the liking of my story.
The Peter Principle, Part 2 — Fleeing from what you’re best at. Interesting.
Vintage Ad: J.F. Carey willow chair, 1910 — Apparently, they beat the world.
Query-by-Humming Musical Search Engine Launched — If a musical search engine called Tunebot is going to work, its creators will need you to sing to it. Um, yeah.
Repubs Plot Israel-Iran Apocalypse and the Collapse of the US Economy
If You Build It, Nothing Bad Will Happen — May the mosque go up near Ground Zero, and thrive in peaceful coexistence with all members of its new community.
?otD: What will you do with your weekend?
7/24/2010
Writing time yesterday: 1 hour (revision, WRPA)
Body movement: Coastal walk later
Hours slept: 6.0 (good)
This morning’s weigh-in: n/a
Yesterday’s chemo stress index: 3/10 (fatigue, peripheral neuropathy)
Currently (re)reading: Heretics of Dune by Frank Herbert
Posted: 8:13 am Sat July 24 2010 | Comments(1) |
At Writer’s Weekend in Moclips, WA. There’s Internet access here, slow but existent, if you happen to be in the right part of the right room facing in the right direction. No phone, though. So expect very limited blogging and email while I’m off doing critique, walking on the beach and hanging with my writer homies.
Posted: 6:20 am Fri July 23 2010 | Comments(1) |
Your Friday moment of zen.
Me being interviewed for Fast Forward TV at the Channel 69 studios in Washington, DC. © 2006, 2010, M. Lake. All rights reserved, reproduced with permission.
Posted: 6:18 am Fri July 23 2010 | Comments(0) |
The Rookery: 1938 — Some serious story telling embedded in this Shorpy photo.
The danger of safety — All of which reminds me of why I gave up using radar detectors many years ago. (Via danjite.)
Boeing’s New Crew Spacecraft — The company wants to be the first from the private sector to build a human-rated capsule.
The Gingrich Plan for Al-Quaeda Victory —Ah, Newt. That conservative champion of family values and Constitutional freedoms.
Senator Lies About Roommate — I don’t get this argument that extending unemployment benefits prevents people from taking jobs. The only people who could possibly think unemployment benefits incentivize the unemployed to remain jobless are those who have never tried to survive on the very meager funds paid out. Or idiots. Or both. It’s a deeply specious argument made from the ignorance of privilege and some very flawed assumptions about the working class and the poor.
I’m Telling You, Palin Has No Chance — Conservative commentator Daniel Larison on Palin in 2012. We have already given one obviously unqualified Western governor a chance to wreck the country in the last decade, and not even the Republican Party that continues to defend and like Bush is so clueless and self-destructive that it would go to the country with a female version of the disaster we just experienced
?otD: How hot is it where you are today?
7/23/2010
Writing time yesterday: 0 hours (traveling)
Body movement: Coastal walk later.
Hours slept: 6.75 (good)
This morning’s weigh-in: n/a
Yesterday’s chemo stress index: 4/10 (fatigue, peripheral neuropathy, emotional turmoil)
Currently (re)reading: Heretics of Dune by Frank Herbert
Posted: 6:16 am Fri July 23 2010 | Comments(4) |
Cancer: As calendula_witch notes, we’re essentially on hold til August 11th. Peripheral neuropathy seems to have ceased deepening and may be improving slightly. I continue in pretty deep emotional turmoil and distress over this new diagnosis and its attendant ambiguities.
Health otherwise: Lately I’ve had my eyes checked (everything’s fine) and my feet checked due to a couple of small issues. Happily I do not appear to be experiencing the precursors to Dupuytren’s contraction, which does run in my family. Unhappily I do appear to be experiencing the precursors to arthritis. Oh, well.
Writing: Sekrit Projekt is 95% to bed and Endurance revisions are underway. I’m going to be all Endurance all the time until I get it turned in, either before surgery or before we leave for New Zealand and Australia, whichever winds up actually happening. However, these next few days I’ll be at Writer’s Weekend, pro’ing with davidlevine, which may affect my writing time.
Internetitudinosity: Due to the aforementioned Writer’s Weekend, I may be offline from this afternoon through Sunday night. Regular blogging service will resume when bandwidth once more presents itself. Likewise email responsiveness. The management of this blog humbly apologizes for any inconvenience.
They Say That Five Things Make a Post: This is thing five.
Posted: 5:14 am Thu July 22 2010 | Comments(2) |