A Major Tom trilogy
The wife and I went out to dinner this evening. There was music playing in the background, when Peter Schilling’s song Major Tom (Coming Home) came on. I made note of it to the wife…
A few miscellaneous thoughts
Not a lot to report this time around. I’ve written two more flash fiction stories, bringing the total up to eight stories, and adding another one thousand (1000) words. That puts me at twenty-five hundred…
Quadruple Chocolate Brownies From Hell
Many years ago, in the dawn of the Internet Age, there were these things called newsgroups. They were a sort of a forum, but more like email than a forum. There were newsgroups for anything…
Back in the writing saddle
Ah, it is good to be writing again. As part of the 50K Words Month Long Writing Challenge, or in my case 15K words, I’ve written three flash fiction tales over the last three days,…
AIs won’t fall for Kirk’s tricks
I’ve been watching Star Trek: The Original Series as the first part of the Great Trek Rewatch. My goal is to go though all the Star Trek series (and movies) in order to ‘fill in…
Relentless Positivity
We played Scrabble today with our friend Babs. She won all three games. On the upside of things, this was the first time I got to play the word ‘siege’ in a Scrabble game. That’s…
AI plans to take over the world
I was thinking about the common meme about AIs gaining self-awareness, deciding the human race is the problem, and then wiping us off the face of the Earth. And while it makes for a great…
Conversations at night
The wife mutters something at me. I open my eyes and look at the clock. It’s almost 1:30 A.M. Who needs sleep? I turn to her. “What?” “Don’t take a nap before dinner.” “Okay.” I’m…
Today went much better
Yes, the small furry brat who shall remain Sirocco-less, woke me up at 5:15 A.M. I tried to ignore him, but he sat by the bedroom door, whining pitifully. I finally got up at 5:30.…
The day has flown by
The wife was up earlier than me for once. I woke up briefly at just after 5:00 AM when I heard her getting up. I figured if she was up, the dogs would be content,…
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