Well, since it’s fun to look back, let’s examine the year in review. At the beginning of the year, I only had Avatar (now Playable Character) in my short story harem. Now I’ve got seven more making the rounds. Speaking of Playable Character, it was also the year of my first sale to The Dunesteef. Although I’m still waiting on publication and payment. Hopefully, it’ll be soon and I can start saying “published” instead of “accepted for publication”. The big thing was that I finished Black Hole Son and started sending it out to agents. That meant I had to make my first query letter, and boy howdy did I…

Let’s talk about pride in your work for a second. Recently on the Adam Carolla show, they were talking about how so many people are doing mediocre jobs, or sometimes no job at all. There was a nurse who called in, saying she had lost friends because she had to discipline her underlings, because they weren’t doing the work they were being paid for. A patient would press on the call button and the nurses would go for coffee. She said there are so many who are just waiting for the end of their 12-hour shift so they can get a paycheck. Adam, whose penchant for asking the obvious and…

Nothing to report, but I figured I need to make a blog entry. My Gmail Drive Shell Extension went kaput on Friday. This sent me to a momentary panic, but all my files are accounted for and safe. I don’t think it’s me, I think google did something to render the drive extension unusable. I couldn’t find anything about anyone else having a problem though. So I’m wondering what I should do in the meantime. I guess it’s back to schlepping files back and forth via email to myself. Pain in the ass, but it’s the only way to maintain file persistence and still be able to access stuff via…

Thought for the Day: If you are in China, and you eat a hamburger, and the hamburger came from a cow in China, the bread was made in China, and the ketchup reads something in cryptic symbols, are you eating Chinese food?