If you look up in the upper left hand area of this site you see a new page, Visitor Map.
This is from a cool little plug-in that records all my visitor and displays them graphically.
h/t to Fish for clueing me into the plug-in.
Shooting Zombies in Call Of Duty: World at War, Zombie Swamp level.
247 Zombies killed
16 rounds.
Cawdor is coming along nicely in the worldbuilding sense.
I added another colony to the notes today and I think I am managing to hit the right balance with this colony. Not a cliche and not romanticized either. IN some ways making the Grand Unified Compact is tougher than the wholly new human culture found in the CRC. Where the CRC is a single artificial culture, the GUC is scores of colonies some with very detailed culturally transmission from the founders and some with cultures that have been more open to natural drift. (Naturally they have all drifted. Only the CRC can remained functionally stable since the AI’s have been in control from the very start. The drift there that does occur is slight and nearly unnoticeable.)
After the GUC is crafted together enough to make my characters from it — I have characters from both in the novel — it will be time for detailed work on the military structures, tactics, and principles for warfare with the logistical and strategic limitations I have built into the universe.
I am so excited about this novel. It is becoming so much more than I had originally planned.
Well, my back is still giving me grief from twisting it Saturday night. Getting through work was a challenge. The chair was not well designed for someone with a long torso — like myself – and by the end of the day I was hurting fairly smartly.
I did not let it keep me away from Cawdor though. Tonight I started in on worldbuilding and notes about the Grand Unified Compact. I also have started putting out feelers for military assistance. I hoping not to be one of those military SF writers who makes really dumb blunders in military matters. I know quite a bit about the Navy and what that is like. I know very little about ground forces, how they are organized and utilized in combat. Hopefully I can find the right advise and make something that reads well is exciting and is believable.
Last night we had friends over for board and card gaming. It was a successful night with six people in attendance and much fun and hilarity was had by all.
After my sweetie-wife went to bed and one friend departed for her own bed at home, the rest of us guys settled in for some video game shooting and mayhem.
Things were going pretty well until I stumbled over the footstool of my chair coming back from the Xbox 360. I didn’t fall all the way to the floor, but I twisted my back something fierce.
I’m using cold packs and pain killers today.
Yup, your host is a klutz.
It feels like a charge of C-4 has been detonated behind my forehead. I’ve made it through work, but not much more.
Had a busy day. After work, for the first time, went out to happy hour with my co-wokers.
Don’t get em wrong, I’m not a snob refusing to associate with my co-workers, just being a public transit guy in San Diego means very limited capability for such things.
Anyway I was offered rides so I did not need to worry about the buses, or lack thereof.
We ate snacks and had drinks, then we all went to see Paranormal Activity.
Full review to follow at a later date. The film was okay, but flawed.
This morning my alarm went off and I had a headache. Anytime I have a headache before I have even opened my eyes is a bad time.
I stumbled into the bathroom and, knowing the pain that was too follow, switched on the lights. Yup, hot needles shoved through my eyes and into my brain.
Despite this I managed to make it to work, on time, and struggling through a tough day.
It’s late and my head still aches. I have done nothing this evening except watch an extended version of an SF film tonight with my sweetie.
Here’s a hint to what film we started tonight. (The extended version is nearly three hours long)
Get That Floating fat Man in here! The Baron!
Sorry for dearth of posting here over the weekend. Life intruded and there simply wasn’t the time to do my usual postings.
A lot of what happened was the little stuff that takes up time and energy from a person leaving little focus with.
Yesterday however I got the tragic news that my nephew Scotty has died suddenly in his sleep.
I did not know Scotty well. He was born after I left home for the West Coast and I only met him a few times on my infrequent trips back east. I know my sister is devastated and she has my deepest sympathies.
We don’t know exactly what happened yet. Only that we went to sleep after his shift at work and died in his sleep.
We wish his family well and our deepest condolences.
This is not a big problem, but I suspect it could be an issue with any eReader I had purchased.
I can’t tell how close to the end of the book I am.
Last night I was reading 1633, the sequel to 1632. I stopped when I got home because I do other things than read at home. (Spend time with my Sweetie-wife, watch a little TV, and work on my own writing takes up most of my time.)
This morning I climbed aboard the trolley to go to work and continued reading 1633. Three more page turns and the book was over.
Had I known this last night I would have just finished the book then. Still, on the plus side for eReaders, I had more than 300 public domain titles with me so I just started The Legend Of Sleepy Hollow.