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Swallowed 31 Jul 2013 | 08:26 pm
Also posted to Twitter: I’m sorry I haven’t been active recently. My birthday came up and I have thrown myself into the arms of gaming and have forgotten about everybody else. I tend to do that when ...
Writing Dissonance: Those Brave Disabled People 16 Jul 2013 | 02:24 pm
“You’ve come so far, I know there’s nothing that will stop you now. You just can’t let it.” Ahahahaha. Ha ha. There’s a point to this little quote that I’ve been told in real life. And don’t worry, ...
So How Are Things at Château AJ? 16 Jul 2013 | 01:28 am
Some months ago I decided that cleaning was not worth it anymore (along with a lot of other things not being worth it anymore). So the house is a mess. I used the plates and cups and utensils until th...
PTSD and Distraction 4 Jul 2013 | 09:24 pm
So I have PTSD. It’s bad—not as bad as it is for some, but enough to lock me into terror and keep me there for sometimes days on end. It’s like a descent into hell, whether gradual or sudden, where th...
Storyist, Plus Writing About a Vietnamese-American Proto-Detective 22 Jun 2013 | 12:07 pm
Well, I’ve been working out some characters on Storyist for iPad. I rather prefer Scrivener on the Mac, but unfortunately there’s no Storyist-to-Scrivener converter (as of this blogging) so I’m stuck ...
The Result of Thursday and Friday’s Fundraising 18 Jun 2013 | 11:58 pm
The Carl Brandon Society has released a statement on the amount of money that was raised last Thursday and Friday. The summary is as follows: Nearly $8,300 for the general fund Over $5,000 for the Oct...
Not Terribly Coherent When I’m Afraid 18 Jun 2013 | 02:25 am
After a weekend that was half-fretful, because Father’s Day is a huge trigger for me, which I spent distracting myself at a friend’s with board game marathons, I guess this suspended state of affairs ...
I Write Like Somebody, Maybe 17 Jun 2013 | 11:59 pm
I saw some tweets, most notably from Nick Mamatas, about a site called I Write Like, which supposedly, given a text, analyzes it and spits out who you write like, out of a limited selection of authors...
Pledge Matching for Good Causes 13 Jun 2013 | 09:48 pm
I noticed today a few things, but I’m going to call attention to John Scalzi’s matching of pledges to the Carl Brandon Society, to either the Carl Brandon Society itself or to the Octavia E. Butler Me...
Proving Grounds 12 Jun 2013 | 07:37 pm
Dreams are the proving grounds of the conscious. Or maybe it’s subconscious, I don’t know. All I do know is that I had pleasant dreams (unlike the constant nightmares I used to have) and at least two ...