Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Horror Writer
I’m six years old when my Dad sits me on his lap in his home office, and shows me the screen of his computer. It’s a Sharp MZ80B, with brightly-colored, extremely clicky function keys, and the earth is spinning on its built-in green-screen display. Push the space-bar, and the earth spins twice as fast.
My childhood mind is blown.Continue Reading
Recently, I imported a bunch of posts from my old blog–some of them are relevant, some of them aren’t. Some of them might be, but they’re just not anything I’m interested in actually republishing here…Continue Reading
Today appears to be Spam My Blog day. So far I’ve deleted fifty-six spam comments from robots this morning (with more still being posted), which largely want me to know that they are “impsreeped”, that my posts make life “beeaablr”, or that my blog is the ONLY trustworthy source for Continue Reading
No additional content here, but I did at least want to post this, because it’s fantastic.Continue Reading
We’ve had a bit of an odd spell with plants this year. Some started out dying, others thrived. And recently, we had a sudden rush to try and buy the right soil…Continue Reading
Thunderstorms in the mountains are another animal. I’ve never lived in a place before where they’re so loud, or so likely to interfere with your day.Continue Reading
Even though I’ve lived up here for over a decade now, I still have a hard time getting my head around just how large and just how dangerous some of these forest fires can be…Continue Reading
So, my wife was texting back and forth with her eldest daughter the other night, discussing her boyfriend, and the phone helpfully corrected it to “bot friend”, earning from her the exclamation “What the hell is a bot friend?”Continue Reading
Winter is on its way! Jingle bells, jingle bells! The cold isn’t quite here yet, but once it’s here, you’ll see me grinning an awful lot.Continue Reading