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Our Bengal cats are mesmerized by our preparations for the younger child’s Sonic-themed birthday tomorrow.

We’ve turned our house into a giant blue spheres level by taping balloons everywhere. It’s amazing. Continue reading “Blue Spheres Level”

So, apparently, I’m gonna spend the next two weeks, until the term ends, playing Candy Crush.

The 14-year-old is doing distance school, and if I sit next to them and prod them, they get work done. If I get distracted—by doing anything more absorbing than Candy Crush—they don’t. Continue reading “Surviving the End of the Term”

A Quiet Place is overall a good, valuable movie, and I actually quite liked its sequel…

But I’m never gonna forgive it for its first ten minutes.

If I’d known what to expect from the beginning of A Quiet Place, I’d have probably skipped the movie entirely. Or maybe I’d have been prepared and thus able to forgive it. Continue reading “Bird Box and A Quiet Place”

A Quiet Place is overall a good, valuable movie, and I actually quite liked its sequel…
But I’m never gonna forgive it for its first ten minutes.

If I’d known what to expect from the beginning of A Quiet Place, I’d have probably skipped the movie entirely. Or maybe I’d have been prepared and thus able to forgive it. Continue reading “A Quiet Place, Bird Box, and Spoilers”

Teen to the cat: “Why are you chewing on knives???”

Me: *looks over to see Hazel gnawing on the knife handles sticking out of the knife block*

Hazel: *scurries away in seeming embarrassment at being caught, before I can get a picture* Continue reading “Hazel and Knives”

Conventions are strange temporary villages that blip into existence for a weekend and disappear for a year. Kind of like Brigadoon.

Corollary:

Being a famous furry author is like being a celebrity in Brigadoon — if you can get to the city/con before it disappears into the mists again, you can have a really awesome day.

Most of the time, though? It’s just a memory of a feeling wafting through the internet.

As promised, for anyone who missed the #Nebulas2022 panel, “Getting It Done On Time,” or who just wants to be reminded of some of what was said, I’m going to convert the notes I made preparing for the panel into a thread…

The central theme is: know your own capabilities. Continue reading “Nebulas 2022 Panel Recap”

Apparently, today is the day to catch the younger child up on classics they’ve somehow missed — so far we’ve watched Lilo & Stitch and The Secret of NIMH.

Now we’re watching Spirited Away.

I think Younger Child missed out on Lilo & Stitch because we watched it SO MUCH when Elder Child was little. Continue reading “Lilo & Stitch and Spirited Away”

My kid has to write a short story for a creative writing class, so they have me texting every five minutes to check their word count, while they hide out in their room.

This means, I have an alarm go off every five minutes and have to send a text that just reads, “Word count?” Continue reading “Harrison Bergeron”

So, I’m now reading the manuscript for Otters In Space 4 from the beginning, looking for errors or parts that need smoothing, and the opening scenes are ADORABLE.

Kipper and Trugger go to recruit a mouse gymnast for their space program and take her to a sushi restaurant… Continue reading “Editing Otters In Space 4”