Tag: Life
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Life & Death in the Afternoon
OK, this is bizarre, and it helps if you’re familiar with San Diego where I live. Yesterday I went to the Red Cross donation center in Kearney Mesa to donate platelets and plasma.1 I do that because I can do it every 2 weeks, and it helps cancer patients whose platelets are depleted by chemotherapy.…
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State of the Writer
Some article linked by Glenn Reynolds on Instapundit was talking about all the health monitors people wear on their wrists potentially giving people too much information about the state of their bodies. It prompted Glenn to quote one of his doctor friends saying, “IF YOU THINK YOU’RE HEALTHY, YOU HAVEN’T HAD ENOUGH TESTS.” Let’s hope…
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Where It All Started
A long, long time ago (1974) in a land not very far away (Hollywood), I ran into a brick wall, and that was a good thing. You see I had graduated college with my BA in History and a dream of being a successful writer. I was busy writing stories and sending them off for…
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Sailing Through the Desert
I wrote up my experiences at TusCon, but left out the things I saw along the way. And yes, there are things to see and contemplate on a 800 mile round trip through the desert. I only regret that I took no pictures, but navigating my cell phone to picture mode while driving 80 mph…
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TusCon 52 AAR
TusCon 52 After Action Report The ironically named TusCon (a trick on people who misspell Tucson) holds a warm place in my heart because TusCon 4 in 1976 was the first SF Con I attended outside my home town of San Diego. Since this is my blog, I’m going to indulge in about 10 paragraphs…
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What are My Principles?
An excerpt from A Geek’s Progress: When I was 11 years old and getting my hair cut, I had an interesting revelation. The barber shop was set up with large mirrors on opposite sides of the narrow room. Being bored, I noticed a reflection of the mirror behind me in the corner of the mirror…
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Is It Cheating if We Do It?
The current controversy over Texas’ redistricting of their congressional districts–to increase fairness, or to legislate Democrats out of existence–depending on your partisan political point of view, makes me nostalgic. You see, in the late 80’s I still harbored an ambition to attain a Master’s degree in Geography to go with my Bachelor’s degree in History.…
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Queen of Hearts
This is chapter one of Sharon’s Playing to an Inside Straight talking about health and her health journey. I like metaphor and I like memory triggers, therefore I am choosing cards that I think do both. So let’s start with the Queen of Hearts. I thought that the Queen of Hearts was an appropriate card…
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Playing to an Inside Straight: Introduction
This is a book Sharon started in 2000 but never finished. That really doesn’t matter as much as you might think since each chapter is self-contained. I’ll be posting the other chapters weekly. I decided to start writing this book today. It’s been kicking around upstairs in my head for several years now. Though not…
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A Systems Engineer in the Hospital
I haven’t posted anything for a month or so, and there’s a reason for that as I explain below. Life is slowly getting back to normal…, well except for all that extra time it takes to watch the hit ’em where they ain’t Padres line drive their way to the World Series (fingers crossed). First,…
Musings of a Restless Mind 