Yet Another Journal

I saw my recording of this last night.

I was a little disappointed at both the major singing numbers were already featured in the commercial. there were 2 other numbers within the show, but neither was as big a deal.

I'm biased to Katherine McPhee. I think she should have won American Idol her year, not "Mike McDonald II". Here she's getting well-deserved exposuree.

 Today is already a heavy one as Remembrance Day, as we honor the soldiers of  too many wars...  but today is also the 3rd anniversary of the death of my brother-from-another-mother, Emru Townsend.

My novel is dedicated to him.

It's bad enough that they remade Footloose (maybe Kevin Bacon will sue); bad enough that Dirty Dancing is  being remade. One remake I've seen a trailer for upsets me even more:

The Thing

John Carpenter has already made a legendary version of this. Why would we need another?

 Pan-Am. Two episodes in and it just doesn't grip me.

It's about 33 days away now.

I realized that my original plan will be too complex for a month's project. Instead, I'll be using another idea. It seems that I'll be doing a western with SF concepts... but not Cowboys and Aliens.

I originally posted this in print, and it's a memory on my Livejournal, but it bears repeating today:

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The architect of this evil act is now dead, but the act still happened, and I'll never forget it.

I write fiction, but I realize and accept too my strengths in non-fiction.

Not only am I an award-winning fanzine author, and a 7-time published RPG author so far, but I've also had articles in many newsletters over the past 15 years... and I've recently written the text for a promotional pamphlet for work.

Many popular fiction authors today collected rejections for their tries before. I'm not near that level yet; hopefully I will someday. Until then I'll continue to work at it -- in both fiction and non-.

 The part of my nervous system that governs my vision is messed up, so I see double a lot. I bought an eye patch on the weekend to help focus my sight.

The timing is perfect: Talk Like a Pirate Day will be soon; now I'll be able to act with conviction on it!

I didn't quit. I don't do that!

I had a major power failure in my building in mid-June, and my PC was down because of it.

A friend got me back on  and I now have a strong new surge protector on it. I've been rebuilding it since, restoring data backups and reinstalling apps.

Hopefully this won't happen again.