I moved into TH2, my tiny house, in October of 2021. In February of 2023, I finally got my heat all straightened out. Yes, that’s over one year of the heat not working properly. It’s been a long journey. I kept thinking that I was going to write about it, except that I couldn’t, not […]
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We went to a martial arts tournament this weekend. It was the first time I’d ever gone to see something like that. We went because my friend Jon Crane was being promoted to the 9th dan, which is the highest rank achievable in his form of karate. He’s now “The Dude” for the West Coast.
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Come April 2023, I’ll be running a Kickstarter, celebrating the 20-year anniversary of the publication of my first novel, Paper Mage. As I no longer have a copy of the original book—got rid of all my copies when I downsized—I can’t tell you who the original cover artist is. The cover was nominated for a
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A while back, I received WMG’s “Motivational Mondays” as part of a Kickstarter reward. It took me a while to get to them. At this point, though, I’m looking forward to listening to one session a week. The idea behind Motivational Mondays was to encourage writers to keep moving. That has been difficult these past
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Today marks the anniversary of the day I got my kitty, Kiera. Seventeen years ago. She was already a year or so by that point. This means she’s at least eighteen years old. Wow. Longest relationship I’ve ever had. Seriously. Not sure how long she’ll stick around. Some days I think she won’t make it
I’ve never been much of an audiobook consumer. It’s never been a medium that’s worked well for me. However, I have been getting into listening to more podcasts recently. And then there was the whole concussion thing, where I didn’t want to use or strain my eyes. Coming up in March, I’ll be having cataract
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It is still early days in our adventures with setting up a WooCommerce store on the Knotted Road Press (KRP) website. You’ll find it here: https://www.knottedroadpress.com/shop Before this, Blaze and I had each set up a shop on our own, individual websites. Neither of us was doing too great at it, and though he pushed
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This morning, I drove into Seattle, to the eye doctor, for them to re-measure my eyes. I figure this is “Measure twice, cut once” in action. The technicians have had some difficulty getting accurate measurements of my eyes, which are necessary for the new lenses. It isn’t necessarily because my eyes are weirdly shaped. I
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Like many of you, I’ve heard a lot about the new text and art-generating AIs. I was recently listening to The Creative Penn podcast by Joanna Penn. She’s been excited and talking about AIs for quite some time now. I’ve listened to her and others talk about how they use ChatGPT. None of it made
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I started 2023 with the best of intentions. I had so many things that I was going to start, or restart. I was going to walk more, get back into keto, lose weight, keep up a consistent word count goal, etc. Then I fell and gave myself a concussion in January, on Friday the 13th.
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