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So, it turned out a couple people didn’t show for our corporate golf outing, so I got shut out of chauffering the boys around in the Beer Cart – fine with me. I hung out at Borders for a couple hours, then met up with the Boys at the steakhouse. The Boys arrived an hour […]

Yellow just took off for the day (it’s, um, 10:30am). I love working for these guys. Anyway, I’ve got about 3 short stories I need to finish up and get out Cheira-Cheira, Heros, and Locust Dreams – today’s gotta be a pure working day. So, for your amusement: I’ve finally picked up Nick Mamatas’ book,

I live with a lot of plants. I managed to kill about four batches of basil and cilantro through lack of light before I got a potting table and tossed it out on the enclosed balcony at the back of the house. This’ll be fine until, say, late September, when I’ll need to buy a

I’m drowning in RFPs.

I think that what I like best about trolling through strangers’ blogs is that you get these really random snapshots of people’s lives: Are You A Zombie?

My buddy Jeff was nice enough to give me permission to include his comments on my recent “Worklife” rant. He says: …I don’t think that the remaking selves for the opposite gender thing is as one-sided as you describe. Plenty of women talk quite brazenly about ideal men, and I think perhaps the most universal

Had a great boxing class tonight. I had to wade through two months worth of classes and snag a yellow belt before Coach Fernando appeared to take me seriously, but hey… Coach made a point of partnering me with a great mitt partner tonight, Ray*, who’s one of the two great female boxers I’d been

I was randomly trolling through blogs on blogger (there’s not much to do at work today) and found this. In another of the posts, these two buddies share food thoughts. Why is it I’m still so amazed when I discover other people who are as paranoid about food as I am? This is America, people.

Oh. I love this. “Anyway, back to work. I have characters to kill and deadlines to beat.” — John Rickards (crime novelist) Yea. It’s official. This guy is now on my list of “read every day” blogs… Thank you, Matt Cheney.

I’ve been so caught up in Chicago life, gory Iraq headlines, and the media circus of elections and doublespeak, that it came as a surprise to hear from my buddy Jeff in Fairbanks that Alaska has apparently been burning all summer: As of August 6, a total of 5,566,358 acres have burned in the United