Why I Don’t Make Resolutions
I’ve never been very good at resolutions. Every time I make them, I get to my birthday, and they’re gone. That means by late February, Whatever resolutions I’ve decided to make are long gone, and about...
View ArticleOasis In The Desert Benefit Yard Sale
A guy I went to high school with is trying to fundraise money for a good cause. His rock climbing group is going to Zimbabewe to build and aquaponics farm for an orphanage. There’s more information...
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Curse of The Bibliophile – A Book Blog
So, I’m a website called Swap bot, which is pretty much what it sounds like. You swap things, sometimes it’s email, sometimes postcards, sometimes something else. And one of the swaps I participated in...
View ArticleAiry Persiflage – A Daily Blog
So, this is the other blog for my blog post swap. Again, I feel really fortunate that this was my second blog, because Bev is one of those dedicated people who posts every day. I feel bad for the folks...
View ArticleKnowing Songs
I always say that I don’t have discerning taste in movies or music, and it’s true: I like all kinds of things that are crap. For example, I love Hellboy, and that is not a great movie. I also like all...
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Posting Comments
As a quick head’s up, I’m not that good as responding to comments. I try, but I don’t always see them, and here’s why: If you’re a regular commenter, after 1 or 2 approved comments, your comments are...
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I’m Behind!
We’re 1/3 of the way into NaNoWriMo, and I’m way behind. Like way less than 10,000 words. Heck, I should have 18,333 words today. I haven’t updated my word count for today, but last night I managed to...
View ArticleCan We Get a Do-Over On This Week?
This week? Has not been a very good week, for me personally, or for most of the United States. I call for a do-over for the week, without sickness or hardship, or tragedy. The Clackamas Town Center...
View Article2013 Goal
If you’ve read here before, then you’ll know I’m not a big fan of New Year’s resolutions, because I don’t think they work. By February, March at the latest, I’ve abandoned all of mine. I don’t know if...
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Professional Dinosaur Question, Really?
Pet’s been working through most of Red Dwarf on Netflix. In one of the seasons, a sparrow gets turned into a dinosaur. There’s a line about the dinosaur eating cow vindaloo, and I went to look it up. I...
View ArticleSpin
I heard a commercial on the radio today that made me think about spin. No, I’m not talking about the magazine, or the setting on your washer, but the kind used for public relations. One of the best...
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September Reading Log
I read a lot of books this month. 10 to be precise, although to be fair, 4 of them were audiobooks. Work was busy this month, which meant I spent a lot of time driving (hence the audiobooks) and a lot...
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October Reading Log
I managed 6 books this month, which is a goodly bit. Especially since one book was 1200 pages, and another almost 800. That’s a lot of reading. Dreamfever – Karen Marie Mongin I’d read this one before,...
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November Reading Log
Wow, December already? I didn’t get that many books read in November, 4 fiction and 1 non fiction. How I Live Now – Meg Rosoff I read this for a swap in KateKintail’s District 13 group. It’s a Printz...
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December Reading Log
5 books in December is nothing scoff at, I guess. It was a busy month, we’re always working extra with more loads, and also my uncle passed away unexpectedly in early December. That meant a house full...
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Curse of The Bibliophile – A Book Blog
So, I’m a website called Swap bot, which is pretty much what it sounds like. You swap things, sometimes it’s email, sometimes postcards, sometimes something else. And one of the swaps I participated in...
View ArticleAiry Persiflage – A Daily Blog
So, this is the other blog for my blog post swap. Again, I feel really fortunate that this was my second blog, because Bev is one of those dedicated people who posts every day. I feel bad for the folks...
View ArticleKnowing Songs
I always say that I don’t have discerning taste in movies or music, and it’s true: I like all kinds of things that are crap. For example, I love Hellboy, and that is not a great movie. I also like all...
View ArticleFebruary Reading Log
I managed to read 2 short stories (Good reads counts them as books) and 6 books this month. I’m something like 6 books ahead of my goal of 60 books for the year, but I know as the year moves on, I’ll...
View ArticleMarch Reading Log
My March reading log was mostly JD Robb books. I had one other one, that I finished because I was halfway through it and figured why not. But. The reason my reading log is mostly JD Robb is because...
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