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Better now. I hope.

So after many evolutions, and two minutes-burning cell phone calls to SWCP tech support (who were helpful, anyway), we seem to be back in business:  connected to DSL via wireless network.

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The cause of my woes, it appears and I’m actively hoping, was interference by Zonealarm free firewall software. It’s served well in [...]

I hate puzzles

That’s not code or a euphemism or anything. Sorry. I just hate puzzles.

Screw you, Sudoku, and the horse you rode in on.

Why that should be I’ve no damned idea. In general I really love figuring things out. But as for puzzles per se, I suppose my attitude is, Oh, fucking get on with it.

If [...]

Why I Became a Writer in the First Damn Place

Almost everybody I’ve ever encountered who hasn’t run away fast enough has heard this tale. But these are the Interwebs (which, wise men tell us, are a series of tubes), and they open a whole world of people to me I’ve never met in person. Try to run away faster than light. Hah! [...]

Movie Pet Peeve

(First in an undoubtedly unending series.)

And, mirabile dictu, it doesn’t even involve guns!

First, mea maxima culpa for going dark here for so long. (Nothing like tossing in gratuitous Latin phrases to make you look smarter than you are. And if anybody’s smarter than I am, it sure isn’t me!) Things got on top of [...]