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Promotions and raises are good!
…particularly when they occur just in time for me to seriously consider getting in on the first-time homebuyer tax credit. Which means my writing is, sadly, taking a backseat for the moment to number crunching and researching of various loans and housing options. I do have a goal, though, to finish Disenchantment by the end…
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Titles are overrated
Post titles, that is. Were authors to stop titling their books, leaving blank spine after blank spine on the shelves of my local Borders, there would be havoc. Geeky, bibliophiliac havoc, which I suppose isn’t as havoc-like as what one might find at an anarchist meeting, but still. Havoc of a sort. So titles are…
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Thanksgiving
I thought about calling this “The Obligatory Thanksgiving Post,” but decided that had too negative a connotation, like it’s just something I need to check off my list: “Oh, it’s Thanksgiving; time to be thankful,” since of course we ought to always be mindful of the blessings we’ve received. Still, thankfulness is the core of…
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Two things that make me happy
1. Getting in over 9000 words (and not even including the 843 I lost when my computer crashed during a Write or Die session) during the weekend means I’m caught up on NaNoWriMo after switching ideas on Day 3 last week. And if I get in approximately 2650 each day, I’ll hit 75k by the…
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Why I missed my Thursday 300 post
(I trust my readers are title-readers, but if not, go back and read it. Done? Okay.) I had a cold and was traveling to Abilene, TX, for my five year college reunion. That’s why. The following came about while waiting in the airport Friday morning (I was supposed to arrive in Abilene Thursday night, but…
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A post about fall with numerous footnotes
I have a love/hate relationship with fall. Actually, “hate” is too strong. Even “dislike” is a little too far on the negative end of the shades of meaning scale. It’s more accurate to say I have a love/mild regret relationship with fall. Fall brings pumpkins. Pumpkins means pumpkin pancakes (try the ones here*), pumpkin ice…
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Torn allegiances
Some might consider it counterproductive for my first real post (I don’t count my last one) to contain a confession that I haven’t been writing for the past, hmm, eight months or so when my site is ostensibly devoted to promoting my writing career. What can I say? I live dangerously. As dangerously as one…
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Here we go…
I’ve at last got my site pretty much how I want it, which means I have to begin real posting. My first Miscellany Monday should appear tomorrow. So yeah, essentially this post is here just so I don’t have to leave up my generic “new content will appear here eventually!” thing. Which is essentially what…