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I just put new wheels on my writing chair. That may not seem like a big thing to you but to be able to push back in my chair and not have a wheel lock up and jar me to a stop or not have the chair shoot off at 45 degrees from where I […]
I recently installed Akismet plugin on this BLOG page to combat the spam. Akismet moves what it thinks is spam to a spam folder. It may also may move things that are not spam to the spam folder. I checked many of the comments in the spam folder and did not find any normal comment […]
Artist and writers work on different time scales, continuums, universes. That was brought home to me the other day when I asked my artist when the next set of drawings will be ready. I asked nicely, non-aggressively. His reply was “We only have 30 pages to go, what’s your hurry.” 30 pages to go we’re […]
California is short of water. Since water doesn’t grow on trees we need to stop wasting water and stop now. Early the other morning I was driving a friend to breakfast. We stopped two blocks from my house to turn onto a major street through town. The sprinklers system was on watering the vegetation in […]
I just rebuilt a storage shed in my back yard. It replaces a twenty year old shed that the termites got into. Instead of reusing the door latch from the old shed I bought a new door latch. The old door latch was rusted up bad. Same brand, same size but the metal was thinner […]
It’s not if but soon. Hard drives fail, all the time, so back up your data. I’ve said it before, now go back up your data. Even new SSD (Solid State Drives) fail. If you know how SSDs work then you know they are constantly failing and that they have excellent error correcting electronics but one […]
The question that a writer dreads; How do I find time to write? Everyone has 24 hours in a day. Writers and non-writer included. One way to find time to write is to squeeze every second out of the day you can. You carry a note book and pen or pencil with you every where, […]
Last year I read an expounding on using alfalfa for mulch and then at the end of the year turning the soil to mix in the alfalfa so the alfalfa would act as fertilizer. So last year a bought a bail of alfalfa hay. Had trouble getting the bail into the back of the car. […]
“Play in Sandbox” is a Fan Fic (Fan Fiction) term that means writing in someone else’s story world (their World is your Sand Box). Fan Fic is writing about or in stuff you don’t have a license for (characters, settings, background, story ideas). A librarian on the panel got into Fan Fiction because the children using […]