Friday, December 29, 2017

It's That Time Again...

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JUST FOR NEW YEAR'S... STARTING TODAY — 12/29/17 — and running for the next five days, you can pick up my novella, The Gods of Moa...
Tuesday, December 26, 2017

Impressed Into Service

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Since I was off work today, there was caching on the menu. Originally, I had planned to meet friends Debbie ( Cupdaisy ) and Bridget ( Su...
Monday, December 25, 2017

Let Nothing You Dismay

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I'll not sugar-coat it—things have been pretty rough lately, for many reasons, the majority of which involve my mom's failing heal...
Sunday, December 24, 2017

The Christmas That Broke the Clock

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Christmas morning, 1969: it must have been around 5:00 AM ; I woke up and couldn't go back to sleep. In those days, at the height of...
Saturday, December 23, 2017

Now available: Test Patterns

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"For your approval: Test Patterns , a new, outré collection of short speculative tales in the vein of classic television SF/F anthol...
Sunday, December 17, 2017

"Cool Mist" & "A Piece of Stone" by Wilum H. Pugmire

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"They do get hungry this time of year..." I first became aware of Wilum H. Pugmire in the late 1960s/early 1970s, when his n...
Saturday, December 16, 2017

Hanging with the Creep

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Several times a month, I pass the Sandy Level Creep (see October 24, 2015 ; March 11, 2016 ; and July 21, 2016 ) on my ways to and from M...
Wednesday, December 13, 2017

Delp

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As a youngster, I was a pipsqueak, a wee little dude, about two feet tall till I hit 18, when something I ate expanded me to a state resembl...
Tuesday, December 12, 2017

Jeffrey Osier's "The Encyclopedia for Boys"

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"More people are buried alive each year than most boys realize...." I probably should do this more often: pull out an old cop...
Monday, December 11, 2017

The Feel-Better Flight

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I should have received the Very-Back-of-the-Plane-Rock-Hard-Nonreclining-No-Window Window Seat discount At least on Delta Airlines , ...
Sunday, December 3, 2017

Merry Cachemas to Me

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I had one of those geocaching moments yesterday that made me feel like I might actually be a real geocacher, after something like nine ye...
Friday, November 24, 2017

I Am the Pretty Thing That Ate the House

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Beth, Terry, Old Dude, Ms. B. Well, maybe not the whole house, but damn near. There was no shortage of Thanksgiving Day feasting at the ...
Tuesday, November 21, 2017

So F'ing Suave!

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C'mon, you gonna tell me you wouldn't fall immediately in love with this guy? I have a confession to make. Back in my college...
Tuesday, November 14, 2017

Damned Rodan's Beast Bolognese

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It's recipe time again! This one is not killer spicy like most of my concoctions; it's a bit more true to its Italian heritage, wi...
Sunday, November 12, 2017

Trailing and Quarrying

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View of the old Salem Quarry, facing north from the overlook After a months-long dry spell on the geocaching front, the past three weeke...
Monday, October 30, 2017

Sojourn at Gettysburg

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Somber. Whimsical. Intriguing. Hysterical. Profound. That was our trip to Gettysburg, PA, this past weekend. Generally around Halloween...