- Rent chainsaw
- Chop up tree that fell in the back yard
On a related note: anyone want some maple firewood? I can’t say yet how dry it is…
Patrick
Stray thoughts as I biked to 10th Street to visit G., and then home again
On the way there:
- Man, that wind is cold. Cuts right through my jacket. I’ll sure be glad on the way home, when it’s at my back.
- Not a lot of traffic, even for a Tuesday evening about 8.
- C’mon, turn green already.
- Thanks for giving me plenty of space.*
- I’ll have to make sure I turn off my taillight when I lock my bike up.
- C’mon, turn green already.
On the way home:
- Crap, I left the taillight on. Oh well, it doesn’t draw a lot of battery.
- Still not a pile of traffic.
- I“ll be halfway home before G. gets to his truck.
- How can the wind be in my face in both directions?
- Heh. “Pleasure Chest”.
- Oh right, washboard**. This sucks even worse at night.
Later:
- Oh crap, I left my taillight on again.
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* Not sarcastic; the truck in question went into the other lane, giving me lots of room, something that doesn’t always happen in this town.
** They’re repaving several streets in my neighbourhood. So far they’ve done the part where they tear up the old asphalt. The surface left behind is less fun to bike on than you’d think.
Rum tasting
So my friend Kevin called me up last night, just before supper time. “Are you gonna be at home for the next ten minutes?” he says. “I have a tasting we need to do.” Continue reading “Rum tasting”
Lately
What I’ve been up to lately:
Judo
Learning some Kodokan goshin-jutsu.
Writing
Not as much as I’d like, sadly, though I did go to the Tunnels of Moose Jaw on a research trip.
Work
Just waiting for the faculty to all show up again. After all, it’s the end of summer.
The Evans Theatre
Part of the “webmonkey” side of my profile: I’ve been monkeying with the Evans Theatre’s website, trying to make it look purty and be useful. I’d like to think I’m close.
Have a look: Evans Theatre’s new site
<nerd>It’s a hand-coded WordPress theme using responsive design concepts. Check it out at various browser widths — the images should (mostly) scale nicely. If you’ve got an iPhone or some other pocket browser, I’d love to hear comments.</nerd>
So? Is it purty, or what?
“Exit Interview” is now available online
Read my short story “Exit Interview” on Daily Science Fiction.
Not only is it up on the site now, but it appears to be the “Featured Story” on their site, too. Woo hoo!
They liked it
As they say, “That went well.” The Facebook comments for my story “Exit Interview” were all very positive. (Whew.)
You can click the little wee screenshot to see ’em, if you want.
On tap for tonight: Write Club. (Followed up, almost certainly, by a farewell to a couple of our writers, who are going to Guelph* and China, respectively.)
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* I think it’s Guelph, anyways.
So far so good
Response to “Exit Interview” has so far been very positive. I’m happy.
Íslendingadagurinn
This weekend my wife and I went up to Gimli with my mother for the 122nd annual Icelandic Festival. I hadn’t been to the festival in many years — it’s on a long weekend in summertime, so it tends to attract weddings, family reunions, and other events — but this year Mom called us up about a week and a half before the weekend and said, “Hey, you want to go?”
We said “Sure!”
Coming Soon
If you want to have my short story “Exit Interview” emailed direct to your inbox, you’ll need to sign up for Daily Science Fiction, and soon. My story’s coming in early August.
(If you don’t sign up, all is not lost; stories show up on their site about a week later, and I will for sure post a link to it here, and on Facebook, and on Twitter, and probably Google+ …)