Wrapping the Season Part Two
Posted onSome thoughts wrapping up previously mentioned baseball topics
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Notes from the Jury Room
Posted onJury Duty is something few actively want to do but is something everyone should experience once. I have been called repeatedly but actually served once, four years ago. I was called once again and went in today.After sitting around reading for a few hours, a group of us were called to one court room. We […]
The Magic Number is 9
Posted onIt was about 10:45 last night when the phone rang. Deb answered it and on the other end was Peter David, lamenting the tenth inning of the Mets game. We of course, turned it off after the top of the ninth, with the Mets leading 7-4, figuring the bullpen could easily get three outs.Not so. […]
Taking a Half Day Off
Posted onSince I’ve been home, I treat Monday through Friday like a work week. I’m at the desk in the morning through dinnertime with a break for lunch. I occasionally extend lunch to run errands, like I would were I still in the city. As I’ve written here recently, I now use the weekend as real, […]
Hitting the Campaign Trail
Posted onAnd we’re off.Yesterday as the rains ended and the sun burned through the haze, District 8 began campaigning for re-election. At first, I teamed with Larry Kaley and then added Allen Marks as we went door to door, introducing ourselves, handing out flyers and taking notes as issues got raised.One of the two streets we […]
Juggling
Posted onThe nice thing about having multiple projects at once is that as you draft one you can easily put it aside and tackle the next thing on your list. This way, when it’s time to actually polish and deliver the first project, some days have passed and you can assess the work with fresh eyes.At […]
Question for the Readers
Posted onI find my comic book reading diet to be almost exclusively titles from DC and Marvel with a smattering from IDW. Now that Strangers in Paradise is over, I seem not to have anything on my pull list from the non-majors except Amelia Rules.What’s out that, not from DC (Vertigo, WildStorm, CMX, et, al.) or […]
Rediscovering the Weekend
Posted onWhen you have a day job, freelance work tends to occur at night but largely it consumes the weekend. You rush through chores, skim the paper and before you know it, you’re at the desk and pounding away.With my big project done, I actually have regained my weekends and I have come to realize how […]
At Harbor Yard
Posted onAbout ten minutes from my house is Harbor Yard, a lovely 5000 seat baseball stadium, home to the independent Atlantic League’s Bridgeport Bluefish. The team has been in existence for ten years now and early on, we went several times a year since it was cheap, convenient and fun.With time, we went less often, as […]
Back to Fiction
Posted onAfter months and months of writing short work, nothing usually more than 1000-2000 words sometimes, it takes time to get back up to speed on longer work.This morning, after chores and the like, I sat down to work on The Avenger short story. It had been so long since I had researched his world and […]