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Poker Tournament Update
The Practice Went Well… A decent small tournament that started with four tables (about forty people). It took me a couple of rounds to get settled in and some routines back in place. Felt like I was learning how to walk again. Very weird feeling. But after about an hour, I had a lot of chips and was getting the routines back. And doing a few new ones that are better for the long run. Enough people had been knocked out that we broke to three tables after two hours and then two tables left after three hours. At that point it becomes the middle part of a tournament and…
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Another Quick Trip…
Headed for Vegas With My Computers… Where I will stay for a longer time this trip before having to head back to the coast in July to do a final clean-out of the big house. Right now I am sitting, after a long day of getting ready and packing and then driving, in a casino hotel in eastern Oregon. Going to play another practice poker tournament tomorrow evening here before moving on toward Las Vegas and home. I have gone through the first seven videos in the poker master class I am taking to refresh myself. Fun to have my focus there for a few short hours again. Learning, even…
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I Gave Kitten Pictures
And Nobody Said a Word… That is stunning. Kittens and cats usually bring out the comments even more. (grin) I might have to try that again. How about a picture of Ashley and Thorne, named after Clark Ashton Smith and Thorne Smith? They were with us for over a decade each. Wonderful cats. (And yes, that is just a few of the digest collection behind them, but no idea what the cats are on.) Now, I have given you kittens and cats named after famous writers. What more can writers want? (grin) Monthly Regular Workshops… You can find them under Online Workshops to the right of this post. Sign up…
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Too Late To Write A Post
But I Must To Keep My Streak Going… So you get me typing when I really want to just toddle off to bed after staring at this computer for far too many hours. Don’t you just love these filler posts? (grin) So how about a picture from the past? Me and the Wild Bunch. This is me two weeks after my house burnt down in 1985. My second wife and I had managed to capture these feral kittens when the mom brought them out from under our burnt-out house. We were staying in a friend’s apartment and the three kittens loved to just nap on me. My second wife raised…
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July Through October Workshop Schedule Posted
And Yes, Two New Workshops Are There… Both Information Flow and The Magic Bakery workshops are starting in July. Lifetime subscribers, the workshops are already in your subscription and no need to sign up. You can take it in July as it unfolds per week, or do it at any time after July when you want. Everyone else, to sign up for any workshop, just go to Teachable. Or if you have a credit you want to use, write me and I’ll give you a code to get in. Full list of workshops from July through October is now posted. With a couple spots left open for new workshops later in…
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Blast From the Past Photo
Just For Fun On This Saturday Night… I thought I would put up an old photo. I’m going to be rounding up old photos from various places around the house to put into storage because of the move. So for the next few nights I might post a few old photos here for fun. Here is one taken by Alan Bard Newcomer at one of the very first weekly writer’s workshops we held in Eugene, OR. January 1987, before we thought of starting Pulphouse. About eight months after Kris and I met. (Notice my dark hair and her short, dark hair.) Also take note of how small the table was.…
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We’re Lucky In Practice
Writers Are Very Lucky… We can practice and get paid for it many times. I realized that once again as I was driving back from a poker practice session at a local casino. I went to the $45 buy-in tournament early in the week to practice some on basics and give myself a must needed mental break from the move. It has been some time since I have played any serious poker and I know I need to get back tuned up. (Writers never forget how to write.) But poker at the level I play is a sport and it takes bringing back skill levels to sharpness when away for…
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One More Day of Filler
Should Have Expected a Tired Day… …after spending over ten hours yesterday hauling and moving truck-loads of stuff. But I thought I would be back to speed today. Nope. Almost, but nope. Still got a lot done, though. At one point today there were six WMG Employees in the new store putting things together. And we still had two of our stores open and someone still in the publishing office. Great fun. Josh got a great picture of me up on a ladder with Dan, the manager of the bookstore holding my belt to make sure I didn’t go over backwards since the ground was soft under the ladder. Below…
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Filler Time…
I Stopped Moving… Not done with the move (will finish the rest in late July), but I stopped moving after four twenty-foot-truck-loads today and another car full around 7 p.m. Started at 9 a.m. That is a stupid amount of physical work for a 67 year-old overweight guy. Thankfully I also had two great young guys I had hired, but still kept up with them as I have a want to do. And thanks Matt for bringing me a late lunch. Very much appreciated. Great to have good friends. After all that I spent the night watching television, something I almost never do. Then could barely climb out of the…
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That Was Very Interesting…
THANK YOU!… Everyone, for the feedback, both in the comments and in letters. Both Kris and I were surprised, to be honest. The desire for a depth-like workshop talking about information flow was across the board. And even the Magic Bakery had a lot of people wanting to take it. Plus we got a bunch of other ideas for workshops. Some were on our lists like a Romance online workshop (very different from the intense craft Romance workshop Kris will do in Vegas next year). But one idea hadn’t occurred to us and that was a workshop about how to use tags. Tags are one of the most powerful tools…