Did I mention that H.E. bought me a keyboard? After ten years of me missing my piano, he got me a Yamaha DGX-505. No occasion. We’d just been wandering around Fry’s Electronics Friday, looking for something else, when we sort of stumbled on it. It had the requisite 88 keys and a bunch of other things, so I noted the model number and he looked it up at home. The next day, he bought it and helped me set it…
Since Lelia went through the trouble of suggesting better ways to fight spam, I decided to try upgrading … again. Upgrading had always been at the back of my mind, but I never got around to actually accomplishing it because for some stupid reason I couldn’t log into my phpadmin to back up my sql database—God, I sounded like a geek just now. Anyway, I gave it one more try and wrote my web host to ask why I couldn’t…
For some time now, I’ve been considering closing this web log. I don’t post as regularly as I used to, and 99% of my comments are spam, which is a hassle to delete even as easy as WordPress makes it. I spent this morning deleting such spam, after spending last night and the night before doing the same thing, and in my fervor of also going into some of those old posts and disabling comments and pings, I got a…
This is the underlying art I did for an anthology called A Faerie Tale by Paige Burns, Jodi Lynn Copeland, Rae Monet, and Tiffany Aaron—totally not available yet, in either e-book or print format, but I thought I’d post it anyway as I’d promised Mark a sample to show his clients. I can’t remember how many photos it took to make this, but it’s somewhere between 10 and 15, closer to 15. Only the right half of the image actually…
Katrina made me unproductive today. Since late last night, when I first heard there was a break in the levee and the reporter got a second source to confirm it, I’ve been wandering over to the television to see new video on the aftermath. I knew the worst would happen, even before the hurricane hit. The signs were all there, and I wondered why they didn’t make evacuation mandatory. H.E. said they should have had all the school busses out,…