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August 22, 2024 · 121 words
Good News. Bad News. Airborne Assault.
The good: the eye surgery has been a success. I can now read newsprint with my left eye, where before it would just have been a blur. My retina has been slowly uncrumpling. In bad news: my knees are in worse shape than I thought. Knee replacement has been recommended. I’m reluctant to do this […]
Read entry →August 21, 2024 · 133 words
My Bubonicon Schedule
This weekend I’ll be attending Bubonicon 55, the latest iteration of New Mexico’s premiere science fiction convention. (And it’s a little staggering to realize that I’ve attended almost all of those 55 cons.) In case any of you want to come by and say hello, I’ll be at the following events: Friday August 23, 8:15-9:05.
Read entry →August 17, 2024 · 222 words
Rifts in Time
Another dip into the archives today. Found was the copy-edit on THE RIFT. I was reminded that the manuscript was seven inches thick and amounted to a historically significant 1066 pages. (My own grueling Battle of Hastings) It was an open question whether binding technology would actually get a book that long between c
Read entry →August 12, 2024 · 185 words
Your Career Can Be Yours!
Today Kathy strapped a bunch of wall calendars in some homemade shipping containers, with the intension of sending them off to TAMU special collections. Why wall calendars? Because they contain day-to-day tracking of my life for the last thirty-odd years. (Assuming of course that anyone in the future is interested in s
Read entry →July 31, 2024 · 177 words
Red Eyes
I didn’t sleep well last night because I’d had eye surgery that morning and had this lump of stuff pasted over my eye, but the lump of stuff came off this morning and I had a successful nap. Frankly I look terrifying. The sclera of my left eye is bright blood red, with the iris […]
Read entry →July 29, 2024 · 146 words
Cellophane
Tomorrow I’m going to have eye surgery to remove a cellophane pucker in my left eye. Go right ahead, make all the jokes you like. UPDATE: The eye surgery was painless and as pleasant as these things can ever be. Afterward I was wheeled out into Kathy’s car and the ride home, where I crashed […]
Read entry →July 21, 2024 · 679 words
Going to the Well
I’m not exactly good at walking nowadays, but I thought I’d manage well enough at riding around on the John Deere, so I headed to the tractor the other day with the intention of trimming the grass on our rancho and shortening the weeds. One of the tires had gone flat, but I knew it […]
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