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Or at least in terms of web links it is. Question: if blog is short for web log, can I use blinks for a collection of web links? Would it catch on? Can I be the next Al Gore?
Never mind.
Taking a break from cat posts and book reviews, here’s the sites and stories that have caught my eye in June.
My attention has been on the insanity of writing a novel in 30 days so I haven’t blogged lately. Word count updates for the novel can be seen in the widgets on the left of the main page, Facebook and Twitter (follow small_pond). The story of the novel won’t be wrapped up in 50,000 words so here’s hoping I churn out over 5K a day or keep writing through December and into the future.
In the meantime, here are some pics of what else has been going on. Notice no pictures of books appear. Despite my growing pile of review copies, the time isn’t there this month to read and review. Besides, one of them may require me to buy a fiddle
On to the photos …
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Last week I went to San Diego for work. The trip was nice, got some good work-type stuff accomplished in San Diego while in-the-office work stuff threatened to completely fall apart. Always fun to be out of the office when you’re really needed there. The weather was perfect as it tends to be in San Diego, and the company was delightful.
Still, I was ready to be back home on Friday afternoon when it came time to leave. My flight plan was a 5:45 p.m. from San Diego to San Francisco, a three-hour layover and then the red eye back home. Both planes looked incredibly packed when I checked in online, but I managed to get an economy-plus upgrade for the red eye. More about that later. Read the rest of this entry »
I’m watching one of my favorite not-good made-for-TV minseries on the Sci Fi channel: Stephen King’s Rose Red. It was about a haunted house that’s [cue scary music] alive. That’s not what I wanted to write about.
This is. The third clip in. About 0:15.
The demise of Jack was at the last commercial break. I like the Sci Fi Channel bumps in and out of shows, but this one was a little more twisted than usual. Maybe it was the giant’s foot grinding little Jack into the floor.
