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What Rough Beast...

… Slouches toward Burque to be born?

Bubonicon 44, of course!

And by “rough beast,” I naturally mean this entirely adorable Mayan Perry Rodent!

Impending Apocalypse never looked so cute!

I love that image! I wish it were on our official tee-shirt. I want it on everything.

Since I can’t find a credit, I can but attribute it to [...]

A hard day

… To keep my attitude up.

The good news? I’m feeling better today, after having been sick yesterday.

The bad news? That’s relatively speaking. And entailed sleeping until a quarter past noon. Which nonetheless I badly needed to do. Plus – well, there are problems.

The cats aren’t eating, even their much-desired wet-food breakfast. Which may [...]

Blessed relief

Movement on The Dinosaur Lords front!

No, the Official Editorial Rewrite Notes still haven’t gotten here. The good news is that there is reason to believe they are about to.

The bad news was I also got what I thought was reason to suspect the editor was going to ask me to make fundamental changes to the [...]

When the cats are away...

No, actually, even with the cats right there, the mice disport themselves quite freely, thank you very much.

Specifically, the  mice have not just been eating, but stealing the cats’ food while they lie mere feet away.

And hiding it here.

Emma comes home!

At last, Emma’s home.

Kathy and Steve Kubica brought her back from the kennel today. Poor child’s been gone a long time. I felt bad about not bringing her home earlier, but the fact was I was in no shape to deal with her before this. She’s a very good girl. She’s also large, strong, and [...]

Merry Christmas, 2009

Wishing all a Merry Christmas filled with peace & harmony, and a happy, healthy, prosperous New year.

Emma’s Terrible Toy

When Emma Dog came to us, five years ago, she brought with her a favorite toy:  a squeaky plastic ice cream cone.  She loved the damned thing.

Unfortunately, a place I boarded her lost it.  She was disconsolate.

For months I sought a replacement.  Nothing I tried connected with her.  Until one day at Wal-Mart I found [...]

Home again

Back from a flying trip, in sundry senses of the word. Some fun stories to tell. Some not to.

Tired now.

When I left it was 90°. Or more. Naturally I left the swamp cooler running so as not to bake the cats. It gets cooler at night usually, of course, but I figured it [...]

My Best Friend

Actually, that’s Joseph Reichert. I’ve known him about forty years now. That’s another story – or a volume. Maybe two.

What I was just moved to write about was my other best friend – or as I sometimes refer to him, “my best little friend.”

This would be my orange tabby cat TJ. Which, yes, is short [...]