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I had one of those great hour-long lunch breaks where I completed several errands. Normally I spend the hour at the gym, but every now and then the tasks pile up and I have to handle ’em all. One thing … Continue reading →

Back to the threatening kind of rain today without actually producing much. Yesterday gave us nearly 2″, which is the most we’ve had in one day since last October, but it didn’t solve the drought problem and they’re still debating … Continue reading →

We might have had a sprinkle or two yesterday (30% chance of rain) but we’ve had the first serious rainfall in months today. I don’t know exactly when it started, but I heard it coming down heavily at around 6:30 … Continue reading →

They keep threatening us with rain. I’d say “promising,” except it rarely comes to pass. Today it looks like most of the showers are going east of us. That’s okay for them—they need it as badly as we do. There … Continue reading →

My Storytellers Unplugged essay went live this morning. It’s called Are you ready? Well, then, let’s begin, and it talks about what it takes for me to be ready to begin working on a short story. We watched three more … Continue reading →

Here’s what the weather forecast looks like for the next four days: 101°/76° |  101°/76° | 101°/74° | 101°/74°. Chance of rain: 0%. We are now 15″ behind on annual rainfall to date. When you boil hockey down to the basics, it’s … Continue reading →

If we had six fingers on each hand and had adopted a base-12 numbering system, today I would be 42. In binary, I’m 110010. Yes, it’s one of those dreaded “significant” birthdays. The kind that ends in a zero. And, no, … Continue reading →

The long weekend is over and I feel like I got a lot accomplished. We cooked some great meals on the grill, though it was two flocking hot to eat outside (flocking is a euphemism I picked up from the … Continue reading →

Wrote another thousand words of the story in progress and I have the rest all mapped out in my head except for one piece. One connection that the detective has to make and act on before the big reveal at … Continue reading →

One advantage of being in a drought: you don’t have to mow the lawn. At all. I mowed it once back in March or April to get rid of the shaggy look it had acquired over the course of the … Continue reading →