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I’m In My New Office…
After Working On It All Day… Finally got all four computers and two secondary screens in place, shelves in place, a few boxes of books on the shelves, and this computer running enough to do some email and a prompt. (Sound echoes and lights not right yet, but I’ll get it.) A lot of trips down to our old office condo on the main floor. And since this office is up a flight of stairs here in the condo, I climbed basically 15 flights of stairs carrying boxes and computers. Yup, going to feel that tomorrow. A bunch of time on my back on tile floor putting desks together as…
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It Is Amazing…
After A Long Night… Today all three cats are getting along great. In fact, they all seem to be fine. Last night was a lot of hissing and such after we released them together. None of that today at all. We spent the day doing all the crap you do on the day after you move into a new place. Cable guy appointment (who was great) securing shelves, napping, and reading a lot of instructions on high-end appliances. I never did get my office together, but Kris got hers in good shape. So tomorrow I will be in my new office, will get email caught up, will record some workshop…
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A Long Move…
Still a ton to do, but we are in the new place!! At the moment I am not, because I didn’t have time to put my new office together, so I am sitting in a mostly empty former business condo (#143), at a large dining room table we will give to a charity at some point, doing this and running through my email. Tomorrow I put my office together. Move started a little after 7 am when Kris and I rounded up the two boys from #907 in two carriers and put them in a bathroom upstairs in #1401. Then I got the little girl into her carrier and we…
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Really, Really Tired of Packing Boxes…
But This Was the Last Day… By noon tomorrow the movers will be gone and we will mostly be in our new place. It will take a month to clean up the other two condos and turn in the keys, but there will be no massive amount of things to do. Get some stuff to storage, some things to give away to charities. So tomorrow is the big move. Then we unpack all the boxes we have been packing for a week. And tomorrow is the first day of the craziness with the little girl meeting the two boys, all in a brand new place. I am sure Kris will…
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Tired of Packing Boxes…
…And I Got Another Full Day of It Tomorrow… Kris and I both packed a lot of boxes today, and ran a bunch of errands to get cat stuff that we will need Friday morning. We’re putting the two boys together in one big carrier because it’s just easier for us to get them into that. The little girl goes in and out of her carrier all the time when playing, so no issue there. But tonight we me packing and taking shelves off the way, she’s getting worried. He would just pay under something, on the floor, out of the way, watching me. When I sat down here at…
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Packing Boxes…
Movers Coming on Friday… And furniture and books and shelves are leaving two condos and going upstairs into one far larger condo. The thing is so large and has such spectacular views, we will have three living room sets of furniture. For two people. And my new office and Kris’s new office both have views hard to imagine. But we will suffer through. (grin) And on Friday, after the movers leave, the two boys from Promotion Central meet their new co-worker. She has been here in my office on the ground floor since she joined up and I can tell you that she is a love, a lap cat, and…
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Rewards and Stretch Rewards…
For THE CHASE… … Heading out on Tuesday, so watch your email and your spam filters. Also, the two Pop-Ups that we scheduled for stretch rewards in THE CHASE Kickstarter campaign are now up live as well. If you supported the campaign, you will get both, of course. I personally think that Writing MacGuffins Pop-Up might help you make writing easier. Amazing how knowing about MacGuffins and what they are used for in all genres can really make writing a lot more fun and a ton easier in the plotting. So you might want to think about grabbing that one if you missed THE CHASE kickstarter campaign. Also if you missed…
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Story Prompts
I Found An Interesting One.. Laying out Issue #50 of Smith’s Monthly this last week, I was going over six short stories written in five days about five years ago. They were stories in the huge book STORIES FROM JULY which I am serializing in six issues of Smith’s Monthly. 31 stories I wrote in 31 days, so not only am I putting in the regular five stories in every issue, but five or six more from STORIES FROM JULY, plus a full novel. A number of the stories from all those years ago I remember. And then there was a Seeder’s Universe story I didn’t remember at all. So…
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Quick Post With a Cat
Angel is Doing Laps… She is running from one end of the condo to the other right now, growling and chasing some unseen thing, sliding around corners on the hardwood floors. The two boys in promotion central are not going to know what hit them after Angel and both boys move up to a new condo together later in the week. Could really be fun to watch and I am sure Kris will have some stories in her posts on Facebook. I am just going to post a couple pictures of her tonight because I have some other stuff to do and I need a blog post here to keep…
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A Signpost Along the Road…
We All Have Them… Just like driving on any road, sometimes you notice the sign telling you where on the road you are at, sometimes not. For the last number of decades, I have paid little attention to the signs on my writing road. But my first decade or two, I sure watched the signposts, tried to figure out if I was even still on the correct road at times for where I wanted to go with my writing and publishing. And over the years, stretching this sad metaphor a little more, I fell off the road and took some bad turns that just took longer to get back on…