Excuses, excuses
The big problem about living with ME—all right, one of the big problems, but for me they’re all kind of organised around this one—is that you have no slack. None. Zero. Or sub zero. −459.67 °F ,...
View ArticleSFWA Grandmast . . . clunk
The SFWA doohickey arrived yesterday. Trumpets and shouting. This is the actual award itself, this massive great Perspex, or similar, thing with embedded planets and galaxies and my name on a plaque...
View ArticleIt’s the fourth of July*
[OKAY SO IT’S THE FIFTH OF JULY BY THE TIME I GOT THIS POSTED. IT’S STILL THE FOURTH OF JULY TO ME. I STAY UP LATE.] Which means it’s the anniversary of the death of William Byrd. This year is the...
View ArticleA New Low in Blog Content Is Reached
I’ve done my back in. Somehow. I think it’s done me in, I don’t think I had anything to do with it. I can just about wiggle my fingers on a keyboard without screaming. I expect to hear a giant...
View ArticleContinuing Skeletal Vagaries
The problem with having back trouble when you’re this old is that it turns you into a little old lady. Arrrgh. When you’re 30 or 40 and you have back trouble and you’re hobbling around*, you’re a...
View ArticleDOES ANYONE KNOW A REAL, LIVE, HUMAN BEING WHO WORKS AT FACEBOOK?*
AAAAAAAAUGH. Several people I recognise from the old blog are kindly posting FB links via the contact-me form.** THERE’S JUST ONE SMALL PROBLEM. I CAN’T GET ON FACEBOOK. I suppose I could start a...
View ArticleAPOLOGIES. Again. With trumpet flourishes & bagpipers (this is Scotland after...
When I started this post a very long time ago* the title was Another Day, Another Technological Disaster, & the problem was this was so overwhelmingly true that I couldn’t force myself to stay...
View ArticleIf All I Ever Blogged About Were the Endless Shortcomings of Technology I...
I was rushing around because the Mongol Horde & I had to get going early because I was having my SECOND SEWING LESSON in the afternoon.* The having-to-get-going-early would be why iPhone from...
View ArticleTechnophobe
I should be out there hurtling Genghis but it’s SHEETING RAIN & I’m looking for excuses to put it off.* So I thought I’d tell you my next The Insanity of Technology story. I should rename this...
View ArticleI didn’t move to Scotland for this
. . . weather. So yeah. We’ve been having a hurricane. All the official news sites & forecasters & blah blah were calling it a storm but that inadequately describes the experience of living...
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