In the middle of EMERALD BLAZE release, Gordon told me, “I booked a vacation.” I just sort of turned around and looked at him. COVID is going on, we are on a crushing deadline, we’d have to board seven animals… He said, “It’s a house on Santa Rosa beach. It has its own private access
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Long Week, Factories, and Kids
A terribly busy week. We wrote Ryder on Monday and Tuesday, and then on Wednesday, after a discussion with Avon, a decision was made to write Arabella’s very short story bribe. By the way, thank you to all of the OB-GYN who responded. We got our two experts, but we deeply appreciate your help. We
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Life, Surprise Guests, and Stress
Guests Gordon: Hey, come outside. Bring the phone. Me: ? They hung out in the front yard for hours. We were fifteen feet away. Stress Posted with permission from Kid 1. We are all a bit stressed out right now for certain reasons, and I walked into the kitchen to find Kid 1 particularly freaked
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Office Repair: the Finished Product
By popular demand, here are the results of our office repair. if you missed the post, the previous owners of the house improperly ran the HVAC cables out of the wall straight into the rain trench, so when it rained and the water level rose, it ran straight into the wall, flooding the office. The
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Dog pictures and Admin news
Happy belated July 4th to those who celebrated. We had a nice time. It was just the family and we had all home sheltered for two weeks prior. Now on to boring admin news. We decided to limit the nature of our email form. If you look on the contact page, you will now see
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Are You Alright?
Personal post, do not read or you might get depressed. With rising coronavirus numbers in Texas, I just wanted to know if you are alright. Rita Thank you for checking. See that big red circle? That’s us. We made national news by going from 4 cases a day to 210 cases a day. For a
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Bombas: Part 2
O_O Which one of you forwarded my blog post to Bombas? Because I just Googled and I don’t see it anywhere in the recent google results, so how did they find it? Own up. Ummmmm…. A quick examination of the email confirms that Bombas sent us free socks. Well, now I have a moral dilemma.
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Stupidest Thing I Bought
We all make stupid purchases from time to time and so I made one this Christmas. I bought Bombas socks. Bombas socks advertises itself as the maker of the best socks ever. I first saw the ad on Facebook. And then I saw it again and again, advertising “amazing” socks and “the most comfortable socks
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My Nose
Late last night, Gordon steps out of the shower and opens the door. I am parked on the chair in the corner of the bathroom. Gordon, big smile: Hey there. Were you waiting for me? Me: Hmm. Can you walk into the bedroom, please? Gordon, in a towel, walking to the bedroom: Sure. What am
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Finances and kids
Financing a car. Me: You are financing $12,000 on a car. You have optional terms of 4, 5, or 6 years. Four years = $350 per month payment. Six years = $300 payment. Kid 1: Lower is better. It would give me more money left over from my paycheck. Me: Calculate it. Kid 1, whipping
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Website Woes
The website redesign is proceeding on schedule. We will be converting from a multisite to a single site and letting the blog posts and landing pages shoulder the load that multisite previously carried. The amount of work that has to go into conversion is massive, because categories have to be reordered. Currently there are 1,672
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Computer is here
The good news is that computer is finally here! The bad news is that it’s just now got here. I am sorry, we are looking at Monday for Ryder. I wanted to tell you about my Mom. She has been dead for over a decade now, but I still miss her. My grandparents had a
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