The trip to California has been interesting. On thursday, I drove up to Northridge to visit David Gerrold for a few hours. Despite picking the one day a week where I can’t park in front of his house due to street cleaning ($50 parking ticket to prove it) the visit… Continue reading
Seems I only get on here once a month anymore. Too much life interferes with what I want to do. Anyway, here I sit in Fullerton, CA waiting for my wife and her cousin to return with dinner. I’ve spent the past two months doing research for my next novel,… Continue reading
Has it been almost a month since my last post? Wow. News on the home front. Reanna won a gold medal in a piano sonatina competition. Audrey didn’t fare so well there, and she botched her flute solo yesterday, so has nothing but a bronze piano medal to show for… Continue reading
Back to work today. Things haven’t boiled over, but nothing has changed, either. I have plenty more vacation days to use before the end of the year, and I intend to take most of them. Things could be worse, I suppose. In spring of 2006, I interviewed for a position… Continue reading
I burned two days of vacation this week, just because. Sometimes you just need to get out of the office. I spent the two days here at Entropy Central with the kids in school. Well, the two days are gone and I go back in the morning. I got very… Continue reading
Here I sit at the Alltel Ice Den as my three lovely urchins glide, glide, and sway at Radio Disney night. Okay, my son is more likely doing a glide, slip and crash, but they have fun. I decided to try to finish the short story I started last monday,… Continue reading
About nine months ago, my daughter, the clarinet player, needed some uncommon oral surgery. As a result, she had to stop playing clarinet in the elementary school band. She changed to percussion, spending the last semester of 5th grade playing the big bass drum. Over the summer, we got her… Continue reading
Almost exactly three years ago, in October of 2004, I once again started writing my first novel. The reason this iteration stands out is that I actually finished it. I called it finished in April of 2005, length, 74500 words. The day I decided to finish the project no matter… Continue reading
On monday, Vylar Kaftan posted this on her blog. I noticed that nobody responded for several days and posted this in response: Funny. No takers. To which she replied as advertised: Rick, I admire the way you’ve committed to your writing despite such incredible time pressures. I’m astounded by how… Continue reading
A couple of weeks ago, I ran across a copy of Venus on the Half Shell by Kilgore Trout. Trout is, of course, the fictional SF writer who appears in the stories of Kurt Vonnegut. Venus on a Half-Shell was, in reality, written by Philip Jose Farmer, with the (mixed)… Continue reading
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