What I did this weekend:
Hung art in the bathroom.
Cleaned the bathroom in its entirety.
Changed out the makeup and cleaned the cart.
Cleaned the oven.
Changed the bed linen to the spring collection and washed and stored the fall linen.
Vacuumed thoroughly.
Cleaned beneath the steps and changed the storage situation of the towels and the tools.
Wiped down the pantry [...]
I’d love to come home and stick the iPod somewhere that would recharge it and yet keep the tunes playing. It would be nice to have a James Bondian setup with a little slot in the wall and everything else built in. But I’d settle for a Bose system and the new outlet to house [...]
March is said to come in like a lion. What the saying refers to is the changeable weather as winter loosens its grip on the land and green shoots begin to appear in spite of continued frosts, rain, and wind. This year, March has started with some instantly spring weather but it knocked me over [...]
Yesterday, the Garces group opened the Garces Trading Company on the outskirts of the gayborhood. Today, I went. It’s smaller than I thought it would be with a cafe with waiter service in the middle and the food purchase areas around the perimeter in a sort of racetrack around the eating area. Cheeses and charcuterie [...]
I thought we as a species had evolved past being crippled by less than catastrophic weather events (this being a normal-for-the-season event). I was wrong. I have seen less juiced up frenzy after an earthquake.
I just had an aha moment. Actually, I did a few days ago. I figured out where I’d seen this character before. Complete, from the tennis to the sister to the family money. When I was making him up along with the rest of this book, I thought I was starting from the beginning, but [...]
Who knew? Crippling snowstorms would fall on the city on Saturdays in the same winter. Shocking. In a near reiteration of the last storm before Christmas, this one dumped 18″ on the city. Most businesses were closed in the neighborhood with the exception of places frequented by locals. The gyms were open, two coffee shops, [...]
Since I think time is circular and just an attempt for humanity to cut it up into chunks the better to administer everyday life, I’ve never taken the New Year’s holiday seriously. But I’m all for parties and am quick to agree that humanity needs diversions in order to cope with the harshness of reality [...]
Well, the weathermen were finally right. I’m glad for them. They can keep their jobs now and with the constant bloodletting in the latest business news, I’m happy when anyone anywhere keeps their jobs, even if it’s weathermen, a subgroup of some of the shallowest people on Earth.
I was on call today but I think [...]
This is why I have never attempted to publish anything before. This is why I have huge boxes of things I wrote that will never see the light of day. I don’t know if I could deal with the heartbreak… and by heartbreak I don’t mean the rejection of publishers. I can’t deal with it [...]
I hit 90,000 words today. When I posted that thing yesterday, I had no idea how much I had left to go. That, plus a furious dry spell left me hobbling along word after word to reach the 90,000 plateau. It was a big chapter and now I will hopefully coast to the climax and [...]
I guess Apple isn’t the only American company making money. Comcast must have a stash up its sleeve in spite of abysmal service (another symptom of Americans’ addiction on television and mindless entertainment). Comcast just bought NBC. I almost enjoyed finding a New York-based source for the story. In essence, Comcast now owns Rockefeller Center. [...]