Monthly Archives: May 2010

May
7

Awesomesauce…I am Made of It.

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Well, maybe a little anyway. My editor loves my revisions- at least the first 16 chapters’ worth, so I’m definitely feeling a massive wave of relief here. We’re coming down to the deadline at the end of next week – hopefully I can continue to crank it out like I need to. My only concern now is that I’ve added a fair amount of action scenes, but I don’t want them to start being too repetitive – i.e. there’s a threat, characters confront the threat, characters defeat the threat, rest period, threat number 2 (which is maybe too much like threat number 1?) Rinse and repeat == boring and predictable? It’s a bit of a concern, but I think I’ll have to wait until it’s all really put together before I’ll be able to tell if it’s really an issue or just me being entirely too nit-picky.… Read more
May
6

Midnight WTFkery

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Yeah. It’s a bra. With nipples. You know. In case you want to poke someone’s eye out.… Read more
May
6

Upon Reflection

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I had plans for today’s post. Today being *the* day as far as such things can be measured. I’ve actually been working on a render the last few weeks – it’ mostly a private one  – an sort of artistic bleed of my inner turmoil, maybe. And if I get around to finishing, I may end up posting it – but sometimes I’ve found that it sort of cheapens the effect. So we’ll have to see about that.  In either case, my plans were busted when I went to run through another pass of the image that didn’t quite mesh right and *poof*. The Power Supply of my new computer died and tripped the breaker for that side of the house. Which freaked me out a bit, but eventually I figured out what was going on, reset the breaker and then attempted to start up the computer. Only it didn’t.… Read more
May
5

Lucy’s Ladybugs

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I bought Lucy a Ladybug Land kit for Christmas this year and finally got around to sending away for the ladybug larvae a few weeks ago. Happily enough they showed up yesterday, nice and wriggly. We’ve done the caterpillar/butterfly thing with Connor in the past, but I have to say that beetle larva are way more active and interesting to watch.  Both kids are pretty delighted with it and excited by the prospect of watching them turn into ladybugs. I figured I’d try this set during the summer – the last time we did the butterflies it was later in the fall. The butterflies went to fly off and then all promptly nose-dived into the lawn because it was too cold. I really like this type of hands-on learning thing. It’s much more visceral to be able to see the things growing and understand one’s impact on that growth (i.e.… Read more
May
4

Perception

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I had to go bathing suit shopping tonight. Well, actually, I really had to go suit shopping for Lucy, but I figured I’d see if I could find something new for myself. It seems to get harder every year and even though they now sell things as separate pieces, the upper half styles just aren’t particularly flattering on me. Regardless of my current age, for some reason my head still seems to want to picture myself how I was back in high school – all 110 pounds of me. I was an athlete and decently tan and even if my Jersey hair left a little something to be desired, I usually felt pretty good about myself. So there’s always a measure of suck to have to try on clothes and realize that I’m about 20 pounds past that time – to have to see the places that sag and bulge… Read more