Category: family
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Fated
When I visited the parental house recently, a new laptop case was waiting for me. (My mother loves to thrift-shop as much as I do, or possibly more, and she’ll pick up things and stick them in my old room. It’s a surprise every time I come home!) My old one was slowly losing the…
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10,000 hours
Short update today. Head-down in the latest book 2 revisions. I encountered an interesting bit of synchronicity the other day, in that I encountered a mention of the idea of 10,000 hours of practice leading to success in two very different places. I decided to sit down and calculate out how close I was to…
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Awesome advice
Writing advice of the night, courtesy of my (non-writer) sister: Me: Dammit, I need my characters to walk into a trap, but it can’t be too obvious to the reader that’s what it is. Sister: Cover it with leaves and sticks.
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Doesn’t mattermattermatter
I had a musing sort of post lined up for this week, about my Germany experience, but events of the week have offered other material. But fear not! You shall not escape it. I have it noted down for next week. I went to a see a production of Ruddigore today, which is my favorite…
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Oh, Canada!
A mini-vacation sort of weekend: I went up to Victoria to see the sister who in other periods of history would surely be terribly scandalous perform Verdi’s Mass as part of the chorus. I envy them, because for most of the songs in my choir’s upcoming concert, we want to be smiling to draw the…
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Substandard eyeballs
Hooray, I’m almost human again! My cold has subsided finally. I have also successfully stolen my parents’ software and done my taxes, efiled, and scheduled for Uncle Sam to suck what I owe out of my account (Sigh). Staying at my parents’ has made me realize how my prescription really has risen, the way the…
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Food wtfery
So the family all went out to a fancy restaurant for Christmas Eve dinner. It had a menu that consisted of a dozen or so entree options that all went something like: A Comprehensible Piece of Meat or Fish A side that makes sense, a side that is kind of odd, wtf, and did you…
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Christmas Traditions
Busy day today shopping, but mostly for things like groceries that we might run out of while the stores are closed in two days. We haven’t gotten our tree yet, but it’s gotten to the point where it’s almost not right if we get it before Christmas Eve (you won’t believe the deals when you…