And Speaking Of Business Decisions…

I’d imagine most people know by now that I’ve resigned from Lyrical Press. I hadn’t announced it here yet because, quite frankly, I’ve been asleep more than I’ve been awake since it happened.
I know there are rumors flying about various things, and I can’t help that. People react to change differently; to make drama out [...]

Argh

It’s true. My xbox has succumbed to the red ring of death. No more lunchtime drum breaks until it’s fixed. Of course, it might be a good thing, as repeated Run To The Hills fails have given me an inferiority complex, but still — we’re all very sad.
Packing it up to send it for service [...]

Wake Me When School Starts

You can always tell how busy I am by how often I blog. Obviously, things have been a bit crazed around here, juggling work with family. We’re sticking with the theory that things will settle down once the kids are back in school.
Yeah, I know better.
We’ve also got a huge end of summer event  coming [...]

How I Spent My Summer Vacation

Well, vacation’s a bit of a misnomer, I have to say, but I’ve been so quietly lately I figured I should explain myself.
I’m in rather a holding pattern, it seems, quietly watching the industry we all knew and loved change utterly from one minute to the next. Even something so basic as the ISBN is [...]

Meow?!

If you’ve ever worried what long-term effect text-messaging, LOL or 733+ speak might have on literature, I have good news.
Child #1, who is fourteen now, has reported that one of her friends on the internet told her the following:
“However many exclamations you leave in your manuscript is how many cats you’ll have when you get [...]

…an den?

Brian just showed me one more reason to love the internet.

Adventures in Computing

Here’s a little tip from the newly educated…
If you’re running Vista, and especially if you’re using Windows Live One Care, and your hard drive’s getting full? Run, do not walk, to the nearest Clean Disk utility. Let it run, then click the More tab.
Delete your old restore points.
150 GB (yes, that’s GIGABYTES, not megabytes) gone, [...]

Oh NOOO

Only three days of school left, which makes this extra funny.

What Break?

The kids are off school for Easter break. “Chaos” doesn’t even begin to cover it.
In other news, we’ve changed the submissions email address to lyricalsubs (at) gmail (dot) com, thus freeing us all from one seriously clunky inbox interface. (Have I mentioned my addiction to gmail?)
The old email address will still work, of course, just [...]

Smoke (and cake) Inhalation

It’s birthday week, here. Child #1 turned 14 Monday, and Child #2 turns 11 today. Needless to say, time has been in much shorter supply than sugar and open flames.
So happy birthday, munchkins. You’re my red m&ms. Just candy to some people, but my favorite — beautiful and bright, and filled with life’s good stuff.