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Continue reading →: Tuesday Ten: My Year in Books
Towards the end of 2018, Goodreads said I had read 73 “books.” Considering I read a couple more after this tally, that brought my total to at least 75. That’s 200% more than the goal of 25 I’d set. Pretty good for someone with a (semi-undiagnosed) learning disability and possible…
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Continue reading →: Technology vs Standards
Warning: this post is laden with trademarked technology devices. Not because I like namedropping all my high-tech shit, but because it’s necessary to understand what works with what, and what doesn’t. Also, I was going to take a pic of all my incompatible devices, but that will come later. I’ve…
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Continue reading →: I’m Inspired!
Goodreads says my Ominous-Sounding Mystery title is… get ready for it… all set now? Here it is…
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Continue reading →: Forgotten Sundays
This week’s Sunday Seven has been interrupted by a cut of unknown origin on the index finger of my right hand. The bandage makes typing annoying; and since I can’t feel the little nub on the J key, I find I’m writing entire phrases wuth ny rught gabd ibe jet…
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Continue reading →: Finally, a Final Season 3 Outlander Sunday SevenFinally! Have you forgotten all about Outlander? What’s it been? A month and a half since Outlander’s season 3 ended? Longer? Blame some of it on my goddamn 2-week cable outage! Well, at least part of it. Onward! My Seven Favorite Outlander Season 3 Episodes It should come as no…
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Continue reading →: Lesson for This Week
Do not write fan fiction containing characters you hate. They He It will just make you so angry you have to go out at 9:00 p.m. to buy a bottle of wine to calm you down. Then you drink 2/3 of the bottle. Then you wake up the next morning with…
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Continue reading →: Let’s Just Forget January 2018[All in the form of a “Sunday Seven,” but on Friday instead of Sunday. Apparently, my mind only works in increments of seven now.] Two Weeks in Hell Heck Two weeks ago—TWO WEEKS! FOURTEEN DAYS!—on January 19, I was working on my Outlander season 3 favorite episodes post. I began…
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Continue reading →: Laughter: the Best Christmas PresentThe streak continues! How long can the “Sunday (& Not-Sunday) Seven last? Who knows. Take bets! Start a pool! At least now I’ll try to get them posted on Sunday. Unless, of course, I don’t. I actually have three Sunday Seven posts started, but with it being Christmas Eve, I…
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Continue reading →: The End Is Here: Outlander 313And so season 3 of Outlander goes out with a bang—if you’re me. Or a whimper, if you’re nearly everyone else. I actually understand the criticisms and agree with some of them. The episode was disjointed; there wasn’t a clear narrative; the writers tried to check beloved book scenes off…
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Continue reading →: The Squick & the Great: Outlander 312Quite a dichotomy, yes? Fortunately, the squicks are among the first two scenes, leaving us with a remainder of nothing but great. (Incidentally, both squicks are taken from Voyager, while much of the great was new.) It’s also obvious that the dozen or so storylines introduced this season are trying…





