Monthly Archives: November 2007

Finally, contestants on Survivor figure out how to neutralize the threat of people holding immunity idols—stab ‘em in the back and get ‘em off the island. Last night was a beautiful thing to behold. Witness: Todd’s grin when the window … Continue reading →

I have a short story called “Adrift” coming up in the anthology Hard Old Spot, which editor Mike Heffernan (A Dark and Deadly Valley) is publishing through his new Hard Ticket Press next year. The story is an ode of … Continue reading →

I wrote another thousand words on my new story this morning. 900 words continued where I left off yesterday and 100 words were the final paragraphs, which came to mind to me sometime yesterday. They maybe not be the absolute … Continue reading →

I wrote my first words of fiction of the month of November this morning. Nearly 1000 of them. I saw a call for submissions for a themed anthology and it struck a chord with me. I have this trunk story … Continue reading →

I know I won’t get much sympathy from folks up north, but the last two days have been cold, rainy and miserable around here. By “cold” I mean about 40 degrees. There’s been a more-or-less constant drizzle since yesterday morning, … Continue reading →

For the most part, I ignore the system restore utility in XP. I was peripherally aware of it, but never had any call to explore it more fully. When I took over my daughter’s old laptop computer after she got … Continue reading →

My computer is bogged down rendering a video, so I thought I might as well blog, since I can’t do much else for the next fifteen minutes. Speaking of bogged down, my ISP provides free antivirus software and firewall, which … Continue reading →

I had to go out to a banquet last night (my wife was being presented with her first research grant!) so I set the DVR to capture the CBS shows. Except I didn’t—I really set it to capture three hours … Continue reading →

I received new information about The Blue Religion, the Mystery Writers of America anthology that contains my short story “Rule Number One.” The book is edited by Michael Connelly and features stories from Connelly, Jon L. Breen, Alafair Burke, Leslie … Continue reading →

I missed a section of NCIS last night. If you saw it, could you add a comment that tells me how the McGee subplot turned out. He was getting all these huge credit card charges that had something to do … Continue reading →