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My Favorite Video Games of All Time, Part 3: Console Games
In part 1 of this series, I covered games I played on a Commodore 64, Amiga and at the arcade. In part 2 I covered those games I have played on the PC. In part 3, I will cover the console games I have...
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Breaking the Ice
When I was four years old, I was supposed to get up on stage as part of a choir at the Christmas pageant at my elementary school. All I can remember is seeing the crowd and running off the stage,...
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2012 In the Rearview Mirror
When I think back on 2012 in a few years, three letters will standout: G B S . Everything else that happened in 2012 revolved around my struggle with Guillain-Barre Syndrome which started on February...
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Reviewing the Resolutions
Last year, shortly after the New Year chimed, I made the foolish mistake of writing out a set of New Years resolutions. Little did I know that by the beginning of February, my world would be turned...
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New Year’s Resolutions for 2013
Last year I wrote out my New Year’s Resolutions. And though I failed to achieve many of them, I decided to start of 2013 with more bold and daring promises. While there are things I would love to have...
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Our Subaru Outback: A Year Later
A year ago, we traded in my 2000 Nissan XTerra for a new 2012 Subaru Outback. A year seems to be a perfect time for a quick review of our experience. We’ve put just over 10300 miles on the car in the...
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My Super Bowl Thoughts
I started watching football all the way back in 1979, when I was 8 years old, and stuck in a wheelchair for six weeks while recovering from fairly major foot surgery on both feet. I didn’t have a...
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Launching a Book, the Marissa Meyer Way
Yesterday was the release date for Marissa Meyer’s book Scarlet, the second book in her Lunar Chronicles, following on her fantastic book, Cinder. She kicked off her book tour at the Garfield Book...
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Being Productive on a Holiday
It’s Presidents’ Day here in the USA today, which means the kids are home from school and I am off my daily ritual. Since I can’t sit down and write with them running around, I took the time to take...
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Magical Abilities
Arthur C. Clarke’s Third Law states that “Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.” From a science fiction writer’s point of view, that’s a fantastic law. It allows me to...
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New Hardware in the Office
A few weeks ago, I started having problems with my Samsung 22” monitor. It would flicker for a couple of minutes at startup, and then return to normal operations. According to research I’ve found on...
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Squall
Late yesterday afternoon, the sky just opened up, and dropped half the Pacific Ocean on our heads. Here’s what it looked like from our porch. Looks like a less foreboding forecast today. Just drizzle...
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New Years Resolutions for 2014
Last year I resolved to get back into shape, get more out of my weekends, write another novel, keep my technical skills up, rebuild my circle of friends and to continue to build my brand. Well, I think...
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The Best Advice I Have Ever Received
I was at a corporate function yesterday, and it was one of these deals where you have to go and introduce yourself to someone you’ve never met before, and then answer a question that pops up on the...
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Time for a Roundup
No, not a cattle roundup. A roundup of news and what’s been going on and keeping me busy lately. At the risk of no one reading past the first news, I am going to start with the goings on regarding...
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Two Weeks to go until Nowhere Wild Launches!
Okay, it’s actually 15 days, but fifteen seems like such a big number. Two seems incredibly small. And yet there is so much to do! Yesterday, my wife and kids and I formed an assembly line to turn out...
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New Additions to My Office
A couple of new additions to my office this weekend. First, a framed copy of the cover for Nowhere Wild. Absolutely awesome! (if I do say so myself) Second, a new office chair. This is, by far, the...
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My 2015 “Year in Review” Blog Entry
What would the end of a year be without an end of the year blog entry? Well, actually, it would be 2014, where I didn’t blog about what happened in 2014 until January 2015, because, well there were so...
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My 2016 New Years Resolutions
I’ve done resolutions in the past, and I like to look back upon them at the end of the year, and laugh. There’s always something in my plans that was so reasonable to expect, yet so impossible to...
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Magical Abilities
Arthur C. Clarke’s Third Law states that “Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.” From a science fiction writer’s point of view, that’s a fantastic law. It allows me to...
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