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Book Review: “Under the Dome” by Stephen King
There have been precious few books published in the last few years that are anything close to being readable, and I have many times tried to read a Stephen King novel only to put it aside and never pick it up again. Most of the books written by Stephen King since IT have been pretty [...]
Karma comes in the form of little old ladies
Back when I was living in NYC, I had an unfortunate encounter with an African-American woman who was just a bit on the far side of the “psychopathic bitch” line. I am thinking she crossed that line at about age 3 and just kept going until the moment I happen to come across her, about [...]
Is the Flash Drive dead?
Before I get into this topic, let me just say up front that I am not a tech blogger, nor do I have any knowledge about Flash Drives, other than my own research and use, and that this post is just my opinion. A couple of days ago, I was doing some organizing of my [...]
Hooray for Live Writer!
Maybe I am just an idiot, maybe the last update to Live Writer (about a year ago?) made the change. Maybe it’s a little of both, but when I first started using Live Writer I could only edit those posts which were written using the program. Tonight, I discovered that I can now pull posts [...]
Yet another update
I finally had the stitches taken out of my eyelid, but I am still having complications with my eye. There is a slight double vision issue going on, that I can only describe as taking a printed piece of paper,and laying the same printed material on clear plastic over the top, then slightly shift the [...]

New Site Design!

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Jun 112010

My plain, boring website has undergone a dramatic transformation from ho-hum to hoo-boy!

I was in the back end of the site adding some behind-the-scenes features when I decided to take a look at some new themes that were available. I found this one and decided to give it a try, and boy am I glad I did!

This theme incorporates all of the stuff I have been wanting on my website for a long time – 3 columns, the scrolling posts, the handling of pages, the thumbnails in the posts, even the color scheme! It was as if someone got into my head and looked at all of the things I wanted and decided to design a theme just for me! There are a few small things I still need to look into (like the pictures in the scroller above that come and go as they please), but this is the best theme I have ever come across.

The stuff I was working on behind the scenes doesn’t affect you, the reader, so I am not going to bore you with any of the details of that.

I hope you like the new design as much as I do, as I plan to keep it for quite some time!

So much to do still!

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Jun 102010

So, school is finally out for the summer, and I received 5 A’s and a B+ as my final grades. I am happy with those grades, especially as there were a few classes I was REALLY worried about!

And while it has been a few weeks since I have written anything (since school let out, actually) I do have a reason for that.

I am not home, I am in Brooklyn, packing up the Brooklyn apartment and preparing to move it all back to my house. Situations change, and we have decided that there is no need to keep the Brooklyn apartment (and it’s high rent!) any longer.

So that’s what I have been doing. Packing!

Who knew you could fit so much stuff into such a tiny apartment?!?!

Writing added

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May 212010

So, now that my older writing website is no longer working and does not seem to be fixable, I have added all of the writing from this semesters Creative Writing class here.

I will be adding the older writings as I get time.

Hope you enjoy them!

It's all gone...

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May 202010

How this happened, I have no idea, but my writing database (the place where all of my writing was stored and linked to this site) has disappeared.

Everything is gone.

All my poems, all my stories, all my essays.

So, now that I no longer have that database to use, I have permanently removed the links. Now I just need to decide if I want to put those pieces of work onto this website or not.

I will let you know what I decide.

Snow and Poetry

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May 092010

So, I have finished my final portfolio for my Creative Writing class, and have added my six poems to my writing site. I also updated my short fiction piece “Chapter’s End” with the changes that the professor wanted added.

Another non-fiction piece, called “Surviving ‘My Death Sentence’” was added as well. It is a short essay on how I came to write the non-fiction piece “My Death Sentence.”

Hopefully I won’t get too burned out with all of the work I still need to do to finish this semester that I can write a little more and add it to the site as well.

You can go to my writing section by clicking here. The writing site is down, permanently.

Now, onto other news. IT’S FREAKING SNOWING!!!

It’s May 8th, and it’s snowing! It was nearly 90 degrees a couple days ago, and now we have snow! No wonder the phrase “global warming” is being replaced with “climate chaos.”

The semester is coming to a very quick end, and I have so much I still need to get done, but fortunately I have finished one class already, gotten my portfolio finished, have almost finished one of two final projects for another class, and have started working on another project I have to do.

I also have three tests to study for that are coming up in the next 10 days.

Will I be getting straight A’s this semester, like I have the last two? Probably not. My Algebra/Trig class and Marketing class are more than likely not going to be A’s this semester. Hopefully they will not be low enough to keep me off the Dean’s List. They shouldn’t be, but I am not positive. We’ll have to see.