Or actu­ally, is it Lit­er­a­ture? I’ve started a short story that I think will end up being sub­mit­ted to the lit mags when (if) I fin­ish it. The title is “Sons and Daugh­ters of the Builder”, and the first para­graph (still first draft) is When­ever peo­ple ask me if my father is God, I say …

We went to Win­nipeg this week­end. Had a lovely time. We saw Bat­man Begins at the Imax, went to the museum (my favourite dis­play remains the Non­such), headed over to the Forks, and wan­dered the Bears on Broad­way, which are the result of a Can­cer Care Man­i­toba fundraiser. I’ve got a bunch of pho­tos on …

We’re break­ing for the week­end; then we’ll be in the home stretch. We’re at the point where we need the scaf­fold­ing to be fif­teen feet high. The the­ory is that while we’re up there, we’ll put in the sof­fits & fas­cia too. My wife and I are going to the Big City this week­end. (And what’s …

The down­side to sub­mit­ting sto­ries to poten­tial mar­kets elec­tron­i­cally is that you can get rejected pretty damn fast. The upside to sub­mit­ting elec­tron­i­cally is that you can get rejected fast, so you’re not sit­ting for three months, won­der­ing. Neo-Opsis didn’t want “Out­side, Look­ing In”. Appar­ently the story was too sneaky and under­handed: [It] seems to …

I’ve sub­mit­ted “Out­side, Look­ing In” to Neo-Opsis. Wish me luck!

My house is turn­ing blue again. That is all.

Well, a new ver­sion of an old story. I’ve been revamp­ing “Fim­bul­vetr”, and parts I-III are up here, with part IV yet to be com­pleted. Let me know what you think. (Gabrielle, if you’re still out there, you might like this one…)

Out­side, Look­ing In has been rejected again. Lenox Ave. had nice things to say (“Hon­estly, it’s a beau­ti­fully told story”), but it didn’t quite match up with what they’re look­ing for. On to the next one. Is it bad form to write a thank-you note for quick turn­around and kind com­ments? I hope not, ’cause I did. …

I’ve finally fin­ished Accelerando, Charles Stross’s novel. For those that want a look, it’s avail­able via a Cre­ative Com­mons license—just click on the link. It’s the story of four gen­er­a­tions of the Macx fam­ily (I think; things get a lit­tle tan­gled, what with the clones and the eigen­fam­i­lies and the ghosts and what­not) and their var­ied …

So. Sid­ing arrived at about 8AM. Insu­la­tion on the north wall pro­ceeds apace. We need about two more full sheets on the sec­ond layer (we’re achiev­ing 2-inch foam by using 2 lay­ers of 1-inch foam, off­set at the seams to dis­suade wind), then we can take down the scaf­fold­ing and get started on actu­ally putting …