One of the things you know going into writing is that there are more rejections than there are acceptances. “August The Strong” is the first story I really started sending around, because I liked the story alot. In fact, I liked it just a tad more un-edited, because after the first two rejections, I thought [...]
I’ve got a good feeling. Recently, I’ve started thinking critically about human nature–is it possible to really understand it?–and, from one of my sillier quasi-insights, I had an idea for a bizarre character. Then I started thinking about how I could develop him. And from that, the idea for a short story was born. Pretty, [...]
This is going to be a post short on words and long on photos. I think that’s all that most people look at, anyway. Our ninth day was dedicated to a visit to a ‘museum village’ where you could see how they lived way back when in Switzerland. . . very cool. Before we got [...]
Some might say that I’m really milking this Swiss vacation, but, well, I’ve been pretty lazy lately. So, it’s taking some time. But, for the people who’re confused about where we are, we are in fact back in Dresden.
I got the following email from dad today, and I have to admit that it made me smile: Toby you old scallywag, It’s talk like a pirate day ( Sep 19 ) – rrrrrr dad The funny thing is that I was talking about this with students, of all people, on Monday. One of my [...]
From Swiss Vacation 2008 – Day 08 Day eight of our vacation was another travel day. Originally, we had some pretty big plans: find an outlook to see Mont Blanc, visit the French part of Switzerland, and then–if time allowed–get up to visit Robert, Christine’s friend who was working in Switzerland at the time. As [...]
We’re still experimenting with memory-video-ing. I like the idea, but you can tell that we have some work to do before it becomes too terribly impressive. Have a look, now you can see the way we camped in Locarno. (It’s not the way we’ve camped in Germany: this is the first time that we had [...]
My old record in doing push-ups was forty-seven at once. I managed that many in a PT test for the Army, about a thousand years ago. (“Back when Christ was a corporal,” in rugged war-novel talk.) But yesterday, in line with my hundred-pushup-challenge, I actually managed to do sixty with more or less good form. [...]
In a break at work today, I had to run to the local electronics store to buy a computer mouse. Katze chewed through the cable on ours. (And through the cable on the one that was on my laptop.) It’s not a big deal, but it comes in the middle of our month of saving. [...]
This is my first attempt at making a video–there’s this one of the cats, but it’s not even pretend-edited–and uploading it. I don’t think that the videos we make will get any more sophisticated than this, but maybe we’ll develop a better sense of when to film and when to take photos. Enjoy it, we [...]