I didn’t do this lightly. I have some editing to do and I know I need to get it done in a short period of time so all the ideas of the story will stay fresh in my mind. Last week was a stressful week with work, editing, and personal life. I just felt like I needed a break and I took it. How did I figure this out?

The wife planned to have breakfast with her sister and take my favorite daughter shopping. She asked if I wanted to go along. I told her to have a girls day and enjoy it. She picked up her mom, her sister, one of the nieces and the five of them went out to breakfast and shopped for a few hours.

I took the time to go through all the laundry, get everything washed, folded, and nearly all of it put away. I lost a lot of left socks so those didn’t find a home. While I did this finished listening to Rendezvous with Rama on audio. I nearly finished the Invisible Man on audio (both reviews will be forthcoming) and I watched a couple programs: Mysteries of the Sphinx and Revelations of the Pyramids.

Both went on very extreme tangents toward the end, but it’s hard to deny much of the initial science in the programs. It’s almost like comparing Fingerprints of the Gods with Chariots of the Gods. The latter is filled with a lot of opinion, speculation, and guesswork whereas the first is filled with hard facts, documentation, and expert opinion. It’s easy to shrug off a lot of the information as not credible, coincidence, or pure fantasy, but every once in a while there is a kernel of truth that flies in the face of commonly accepted theories.

I did a lot of relaxing yesterday. I had to. I needed some down time and I took it. I also got my energy level up for last night.

The Millican’s son’s team had a championship lacrosse game last night. His son is a freshman and not a starter, but he’s still part of the team and we showed up to show our support. The team they played had beaten them earlier in the season. Last night was a different story. In what turned out to be a nail-biter of a game and very strong on defense for both teams, the final score was 4-3 and the Millican’s son’s team will be moving on to the CIF games.

I’m not a big sports fan, but when it comes to watching high school sports, it’s so great to see the enthusiasm the kids play with. If you’ve never seen a high school sporting event, you should get out to one. Find a friend with a kid on the team so you have a team to cheer for. Heck, I might write this one up as an Unorthodox Writing Tip 🙂

Today, no plans as of yet, but that could change at any minute. We’ll see how it goes. Sorry I didn’t write about ducks today, but I will get that post done tomorrow.

Until Tomorrow!

WOO WOO!

This has been a very long week. It looks to be a long weekend. Next week, we’ll take that one day at a time. Why stress out over the unknown, right?

Got some interesting news from work that I cannot talk about. It impacts me greatly, but not in a negative way. More of a “Hey, here’s more stuff to do” way. It shouldn’t add much to my current work load, but again, we’ll just take it day by day and see how it goes from there.

People will come into your life as people tend to do. People will depart from your life as they also tend to do. This happens more in a work environment than it does with friends and family. It’s inevitable. I, like most people, am adverse to change. Change is a scary thing. When people come and go, that’s a scary thing. Will I lose touch with that person? Will that person lose touch with me? How will I get by without that person to lean on from time to time? Is that person going to be alright?

In the Navy I transfered multiple times. Usually with the same batch of guys from Cory Station, Pensacola. I’ve been in touch with a couple of the guys over the years, but it’s not easy to stay in touch. I guess with Facebook I could go looking for these people again, but it’s been quite a long time. I’d love to know what the old gang is up to.

Heck, even my friends from ITT Tech and National University. I do still keep in touch with a couple friends from high school, but for the most part I just wonder what ever happened to some of the people I used to know. I’m bad at correspondence and lost touch with so many people over the years. It was never deliberate, but it’s happened.

I think starting next week I will begin a search for people I’ve lost touch with over the years. This might be weird. It might be cathartic. It might be totally insane and illogical. Heck, for all I know these people have completely forgotten about me. We’ll find out. I’ll post the first name of the person, where I remember them from, and we’ll see how many people I can track down. Should be interesting. I might even have to dig out my old year books to find friends from high school.

Could be interesting.

Tomorrow I’ll write about Ducks.

Until Tomorrow!

WOO WOO!

The wife has needed to get a refill for a prescription. The pharmacy said they needed to get a call from her doctor. They hadn’t gotten one after three attempts to reach her. The wife finally called her doctor and got a new number to call. She called that number and her doctor, due to health reasons, had to leave her practice.

Junior Seau was an excellent football player. He played in San Diego (his home town), had his own restaurant, a field name after him where his brother coached football (and the Millican’s son played). He had fame, fortune, adoration of fans, an awesome career. Yet he committed suicide yesterday.

You just never know what life is going to deal you. You also never know what other people are living with that they might not be telling you. I’m going to be sappy here for a moment. Take the time to tell someone you love them, you care about them, you appreciate them. It’s easy to go through life and act tough, but when you lose someone, those moments are gone forever. You just never know what sits around the bend.

On a lighter note, edits for Jack Kane are progressing nicely. I didn’t get much done yesterday as I needed to edit and produce the latest episode of the Action Pack Podcast. It’s now live so head on over and check it out. The stories are building. We’re only three in and things are just hopping along. If you haven’t dipped your toe in yet, you’ll have three episodes to listen to. Enjoy!

Other than that, I’ve been crazy busy with work. Hopefully things will settle down enough for me to get my head back on straight. It’s been a lot of early mornings. I’m hoping those slow down here soon. As I stands, I have plans through the weekend. Every day there’s something going on. Oh the joy of having kids. 🙂 Enjoy them while you can. The time flies by.

I have a lot to get done today, so just a short post. Ducks will happen tomorrow. Just you wait and see.

Until Tomorrow!

WOO WOO!

This week started out with one of those days. It’s turned into one of those weeks. Every time I turn around there’s something else to do. I’m not complaining, mind you. It just seems like there’s always somewhere to be and something to do. Some days I wonder how I’m fitting all this in and still getting sleep.

Today was another up early day. Tomorrow will be as well. That’s why I get paid the big bucks, right? Been fighting with a coding issue for the past three weeks. I think I’ve finally gotten it nailed down. I’ll do some more testing tomorrow and we’ll see how it goes from there.

I had intended to record my episode of the Action Pack Podcast on Sunday. I was going to edit on Monday and get the episode assembled and uploaded. Guess what, it’s been one of those weeks. I’ve barley been how, but I did get the recording done today and I’m in the process of assembling now. I’ll upload, get the post together, and once Mike Plested is online, the post will go live. It’ll drop in the morning.

I’ve been editing as much as I can and making notes on jack Kane. I really like the story. I did find a continuity issue that I will correct. Seems out hero found something before the villain put it there. Should be an easy enough fix. So far that’s the only major plot issue I’ve found.

Mike and I did a good job planning this one out so it all flows well. We should be able to do similar work once we start on the second book. The characters are so much fun to write, I can’t see us NOT writing the sequel.

All this editing has gotten me even more excited to begin work on Of Gnomes and Dwarves. I’ve got all those characters running around in my head, doing battle, fighting dragons, saving maidens, and doing a lot of other things they’re not supposed to be doing in an effort to stop me from what I’m doing and get them on track for what they should be doing.

I’m like crazy tired, man. I so need to go to bed. My brain is struggling to keep up with my body at this point, but there are still some things that need to be done before I can slip off into slumberland.

I had intended to write my post about ducks today. I’ll have to get on that tomorrow.

Until Tomorrow!

WOO WOO!

It was my intention to get up early this morning. Unfortunately I wanted to sleep in. I hit snooze on my phone (I use it as an alarm clock) and was prepared to sleep in a little bit longer, but my phone decided to ring anyway. I got an early morning wake up call with an outage for an App that I support.

Not being on call, this took me by surprise. Not being tier 1 support, I was doubly surprised. They had gotten my name from another system. I did the investigation, found the issue, corrected it, and then told them what to do the next time an incident like this happens.

As it turns out, they would have probably needed to have gotten a hold of me to correct the issue due to the issue. It’s just odd that they call me from the East Coast to have me correct an issue. Ah well. I put the early morning time to good use. I got the currently application I’m working on ready in our TEST environment. Got caught up on a couple projects that needed my attention. Now I feel like I need a nap.

Instead I’m going to make sure I keep organized today. This afternoon/evening I have several things to take care of. I need to record/edit/assemble the next Action Pack Podcast. I’ve got edits from Don’t Eat the Bread to review, implement, and get the file ready to publish. Hopefully that will be out later this week. I’ve already got the cover for that one. I’ve got Jack Kane edits to get on as well. Busy, busy, busy.

Combine that with a long drive to LA and back, up early each day this weekend and even earlier Friday and this morning, I feel the need for a nap. Perhaps I’ll get one, perhaps not. Tomorrow is also my day to head into the office so it’ll be another early morning.

I’m tired, I’m punchy, I need to get my head clear. Please forgive the short post yet again today. I will endeavor to be funnier tomorrow. Maybe I’ll finally write a post about ducks.

Until Tomorrow!

WOO WOO!

Okay not too far away. But we did head up to LA yesterday. My favorite daughter had a volleyball tournament today. Her and her friend swam, practiced, we ate and I slept great.

The hotel and area we stayed wasn’t the best and there was a huge party in the banquet room, but the rooms were nice enough. I relaxed enough to finish off In Hero Years I’m Dead.

We got early and much volleyball got played. Sadly not by my favorite daughter. Her ankle is still bothering her so she had to sit out. The team did well overall winning two of three matches.

This was the last regular tournament. The next will be a two day tournament in early June. She will be good to go at that time. Until that time it’ll be practice, practice, and more practice.

The drive home went smoothly and we decides to stop in and visit with the Millicans. So far we’ve eaten, watched The HULK ( the second one) and are now watching Iron Man.

Tomorrow I’ll be recording Episode three of Golden West. Scott and Mike will be getting their parts to me and it’ll get assembled and uploaded tomorrow evening.

Tomorrow will also see some more editing of Jack Kane. I hope to get through the edits quickly. It will then head over to Mike for a once over and then off to beta readers. Can’t wait to get reactions on that one.

I got the edits back for Don’t Eat the Bread. That will drop some time next week. You’ll that one drop. I also need to edit My Teacher is a Werewolf. I can’t wait for these stories to drop.

After those are done it’ll be off to Of Gnomes and Dwarves.  I think the excitement has been driving me forward. I cannot wait to jump back in to this universe. Character sketches might be on their way if you’re lucky. 🙂

Until Tomorrow!

Woo Woo!