Project. The thing that’s sucking up my brain power this week is a big project for work: voila, give a training session for the QC department on how to give feedback. Coaching. Step one: What? Step two: But I suck at coaching. And I know nothing about giving presentations. Step three: F— learning experiences, man! […]

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The Fourth. My brother-in-law, Mike, came up over the weekend of the fourth. We had Stacy over for a barbecue…I took Ray (by myself, those lazy bastards) to see the fireworks. Oooh…Ahh… Unfortunately, she got bored with the fireworks about five minutes from the finale, and started flirting with a big puppy-dog instead. Fell asleep

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Reviews. Princess Mononoke, God Save the Mark/The Hot Rock. Princess Mononoke. From what I understand, the same director did this and Spirited Away. My apologies to Neil Gaiman, who did the English version of the script (and damn! did he do a good job. Yes, Doyce, it does look like the characters are mouthing the

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Tappity tappity tappity. Over 200 pages on the novel. Nyaah. Not anywhere near done. I’d say this is going to go to about 600 pages or so–not book pages, but standard manuscript format pages. I’m still in the beginning stages of the plot, the part where things get more and more complex, and the stakes

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New Stuff. So there I was, sitting on the couch with the ones I love watching the cartoon Oswald on the Noggin, when Lee spouts up: “This show is all about trying new things.” Hm…is there more to a cartoon than just fighting evil?

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