Last month, I mentioned blood pressure problems. The good news is, I have the blood pressure under control. The bad news, it’s given me a cough so fierce that I occasionally fall over. People have told me I work to hard, so now I’m taking a thirty-minute break every four hours around the clock for […]
A FreeBSD developer solved my time zone problem with a shell script. I think. Unix is lovely. Except when it isn’t. I’m listing all the time zones I know people attend from. If yours isn’t on the list, poke me and I’ll add it to the config file. (A config file! Unix is lovely! That’s […]
Last month, I made plans. Immediately thereafter, life gave me a surprise. Since my last doc visit in June, seems my blood pressure has doubled. It’s been 80/110 my whole life. Suddenly it went to 130/190. What changed? I had my first bout of covid, that’s what. Fortunately high blood pressure is a well understood […]
The zoom invite said 1AM, not 10AM. 10AM is correct. Y’all can meet at 1am if you like, but I won’t be there.
There will be rats. There usually are rats, at least. I really should call this tier “Meet the Rats.” When I host the video hangout I have a choice of venues. I could stagger up the stairs to my attic office. If it’s nice weather, I might go out onto the back porch. The Rats […]
(This post went to Patronizers at the beginning of January, and to the public at the beginning of February.) The beginning of the year. Time to not only contemplate last year’s failures, but to select next year’s failures. Not that I’m cynical. Truly, what’s the point of setting goals you know you will accomplish? The […]
Remember when I did the Prohibition Orcs Kickstarter campaign? My hope was to raise enough to pay for Eddie Sharam’s painted covers. Instead, it broke $12,000. I was stunned. I was also unwise. When I created the campaign, I said that at $10,000 I would write a Prohibition Orcs baseball tale and send it to […]
The longer I run this thing, the more I regret calling a buck a month “See the Sausage Being Made.” Because it inevitably gets shortened to “sausage,” and that leads nowhere good. Similarly, I shouldn’t have named that one level “Video Chat.” Obviously, it should have been named “Meet the Rats.” And my web store […]
I have a huge backlog of short stories to put out. At the beginning of 2023, I had the idea of doing one a month. Then I caught covid and the idea evaporated. Now that I’ve stopped putting short stories out on third party stores, though, the idea’s much more feasible–plus, I can avoid the […]
And now we arrive at my least favorite time of the year: the switch between Daylight Savings Time to standard. It’s not merely that the switch is annoying and unhealthy. It’s that all of y’all are in different time zones with different rules. My efforts to schedule meetings in UTC failed because a) I cannot […]
