Your Sunday moment of zen.
Flower at Nuevo Rancho Lake. © 2007, 2011, Joseph E. Lake, Jr.
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Posted: 8:06 am Sun December 25 2011 | Comments(0) |
How to Ace a Google Interview — Brain teasers like the ones used for hiring by the Internet giant are spreading to other picky employers.
Patient BW, DOB 2/16/1971 — From The League of Ordinary Gentlemen. Heh.
Extremely creepy clowns — (Via ![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif?v=1){kind=small}
willyumtx
Another Soyuz rocket launch fails — Not good. Sigh.
?otd: Turkey again?
12/25/2011
Writing time yesterday: 0.0 hours (chemo fatigue)
Body movement: 30 minute stationary bike ride
Hours slept: 12.25 (fitful)
Weight: 204.0
Currently (re)reading: The White Dragon by Anne McCaffrey
Posted: 8:05 am Sun December 25 2011 | Comments(2) |
I slept about fifteen hours yesterday, counting roughly three hours of napping plus twelve hours overnight. And yesterday was probably the worst day for fatigue that I’ve experienced during this chemo sequence. Or, really, ever. I hope like heck it was peak fatigue, and that I’ll be a little better today. It’s going to make celebrating Christmas tomorrow a bit tough if I can’t keep my eyes open.
Both the nap dreams/daydreams and the overnight dreams were about food. Pizza, largely, though in some unusual forms, such as made on a Prius floormat, or being used to burgle a safe. (No, I can’t explain now how in my dreams pizza is useful as a safecracking tool. And floormat pizza is just gross.) Sometimes I dream about hamburgers, but not yesterday. Food… food… food… The problem of course is the intersection between my rare physical cravings, my food aversions, my food dysfunctions, my chemo-damaged mouth, and the desires romping around in my backbrain for food that tastes like anything but aquarium tubing.
Oh well, we all have our little obsessions.
Today I am laying very low, tomorrow have two small family events, and that’s it. So if fatigue is my lot, I’m all tooled up for it. Whatever you’re doing, however you’re observing (or ignoring) the season, do it well and be happy. And eat something that tastes good, just for me.
Posted: 8:37 am Sat December 24 2011 | Comments(4) |
The anthology River is now available from DarkQuest Books, including my story “They Are Forgotten Until They Come Again”, a deep post-apocalyptic story set in the Pacific Northwest. The Map of Contents is interesting, to say the least.
The ebook would make a nice last minute Christmas present, methinks.
Posted: 8:30 am Sat December 24 2011 | Comments(0) |
Your Saturday moment of zen.
Flower at Nuevo Rancho Lake. © 2007, 2011, 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: 8:02 am Sat December 24 2011 | Comments(0) |
William Bentrim’s Reviews > Green — A reader reacts to Green, much with the liking.
Dear Santa Letter sent 100 years ago found up chimney
Santa’s Christmas Eve Workload, Calculated — With graphs! (Via Freakonomics.)
Dawn spacecraft sending back new close-up views of asteroid surface
6 reasons why aliens would NEVER invade Earth
600-Million-Year-Old Microscopic Fossils Upend Evolution Theory — The headline is a tad misleading, but the story is cool.
Turns Out, Pigeons Are Just As Good As Monkeys When It Comes To Math
Mitt Romney: Merging business and politics, vowing to be a CEO who’ll fix ailing economy — Dubya was supposed to be the CEO president, and his presidency turned out to be an economic, political and military disaster. Haven’t we learned anything?
?otd: Is Mr. Spock obviously Chinese?
12/24/2011
Writing time yesterday: 0.0 hours (chemo fatigue)
Body movement: 30 minute stationary bike ride
Hours slept: 15.0 (solid plus napping)
Weight: 207.0
Currently (re)reading: The White Dragon by Anne McCaffrey
Posted: 8:01 am Sat December 24 2011 | Comments(1) |
Last night’s dreaming was varied. At one point cmdrsuzdaljlassen
But I woke up enough to interrupt the flow and lose a few. Mortality’s on my mind again. It occurred to me recently that one way to think about my cancer risks is that we’re all dying, I’m just probably dying a little faster than most of my peers. I want to write about that more than my brainspace is ready to cope with today, so maybe next week. I’ve got most of the week off and can really put some time into my thoughts, hopefully. For now, well, some Day Jobbery, then the holiday weekend.
Have fun, be well, celebrate what pleases you best.
Posted: 6:17 am Fri December 23 2011 | Comments(0) |
Your Friday moment of zen.
Flower at Nuevo Rancho Lake. © 2007, 2011, 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: 6:08 am Fri December 23 2011 | Comments(0) |
F106 4CH Infared RC Helicopter NEW with Gyro Radio Remote Control Mini Size (Yellow) — Just go read the copy on this one. Preferably aloud as a dramatic presentation. (Via lillypond
Do you really want to know what your doc is writing about you?
Restoration Projects Bring Coho Back To Johnson Creek — Nuevo Rancho Lake isn’t far from Johnson Creek.
Mysterious ‘space ball’ crashes down in Namibia grasslands
Rare Galaxy from ‘Dawn of Time’ Photographed — That just seems so cool.
1,100-year-old Mayan ruins found in North Georgia — Mayans? In Georgia? Really? (Snurched from @bethmeacham.)
Baboons kidnap and raise feral dogs as pets — Odd but cool. (Via danjite
Bachmann’s overlaps — Heh. (Via Scrivener’s Error.)
Ron Paul gets testy, walks out over talk of racist newsletters — So Ron Paul was a nasty racist when it paid well to scare the rubes and drum up donations, but no longer now that it’s embarrassing. Remember, kids, character counts. I know some political party told me that once, very loudly, but maybe it only applies to liberal-progressives. Also, Ta-Nehisi Coates with more on this.
For Gingrich in Power, Pragmatism, Not Purity — A profile of the Newt which may be of interest to you political junkies. (Thanks to my Dad.)
So… You’ve Been Indefintely Detained — Ah, democracy. We used to live in one, I think.
?otd: Green blood or red?
12/23/2011
Writing time yesterday: 0.0 hours (chemo fatigue)
Body movement: 30 minute stationary bike ride
Hours slept: 11.5 (solid plus napping)
Weight: 207.0
Currently (re)reading: The White Dragon by Anne McCaffrey
Posted: 6:07 am Fri December 23 2011 | Comments(2) |
Thanks to the good offices and extreme generosity of anonymous persons with discriminating tastes, I will be a surprise (to me) guest at Epic ConFusion in January.
This will be my first post-chemotherapy convention appearance, so I’ll be running a bit low and slow. Still, I’ll be there from Thursday evening til Sunday midday, and am really looking forward to experiencing the hospitality of a whole new-to-me community. I’ll be on programming, and make myself available in the bar and at parties to the degree my post-chemo energy permits, so if you’re a Midwestern/East Coast reader or writer who wants to connect, please, seek me out. It’s what I’ll be there for. To see you.
Note that I went to ReaderCon last year in part to start meeting more fans and writers who are not West Coast based, in order to know the SF/F community better. When the generous offer to bring me to ConFusion to meet some Midwest fandom and writerdom was tendered, I could hardly say no.
And thank you to those of you for whom thanks is due.
Posted: 6:19 am Thu December 22 2011 | Comments(2) |
