…oooh, pretty dice
I just wanted to let y’all know that I am working on all sorts of writing projects, including new Doclopedia entries and exclusive stuff for my Patreon backers.
I also plan on having some Reader Participation stuff on here in the coming weeks and months. You’ll find out about it on my Facebook page.
That’s it. Short post, I know, but I’m trying to get back into a daily posting mode.
…well, unless you are reading this now or in the future
I did some more editing of past blog entries, this time related to our disastrous 2004 GenCon trip. Just look for this tag in the tag cloud. NOTES FROM THE FUTURE
…and I ain’t ready to walk
Quick post today. Been looking at the early years of this blog, which were ported over from LiveJournal. Think I’ll be redoing some of them to either remove LJ references or to replace entire entries with something more interesting.
And now, time to ice my knee.
…featuring her new kitty cat, Bessie
Yes, I know, I suck at doing new posts here lately. I hang my head in shame and blame it on my sucky new work schedule.
HOWEVER, I have finally started my new storyblog here: https://doccross.wordpress.com/
Those of you who have read my DogCon/CatCon reports or my Facebook or Twitter posts OR the post on either of those sites by the Critter Avengers, will find the new stories familiar, yet different. It’s the tale told from a different reality starting in 2009.
So check it out. My current plan is to update it three times a week, Monday, Wednesday & Friday.
This blog may go on an official hiatus for a month or so as I build up a bunch of Doclopedia entries to post here. And yes, I WILL continue to post DogCon/CatCon reports, at least for a couple more years.
…with a side of snake squeezins!
I’m Not Dead Yet!
This is just a wee bit of a post to let y’all know that I’m still here, even though I haven’t posted in 12 days. I took a few days off from most writing and am now using my limited writing time to work on the fiction that I promised to put up on here. Should have the first piece ready in about a week.
In the inevitable other news, everyone here is pretty healthy, except our Basset Hound, Sasha, who got bit by a pitbull last night on a walk. Grace took her to the vet this morning. The bites weren’t too severe and she is feeling better tonight, thanks to antibiotics & pain pills.
OK, I’m done here and getting back to writing. I’ll try to post again soon.
…they called him “The Shark” because he liked to bite people
Subject Line: Promotions, Retirements and Vacations
Since I’ve decided to go all balls out with the blogging and tweeting and facebooking and stuff starting on my 58th birthday and going until my 59th, I figured I’d try to add a bit of freshness to my subject lines, too.
Those of you who have been reading my blogs since early 2004 know that I try to never have my subject lines have anything to do with what I’m writing about. In fact, I’d say only 25 or 30 out of the near 2,000 posts have anything to do with the content. The rest are shit that just pops into my head about 30 seconds before I hit “publish”. I’m 99.9999% certain that I’ve never exactly repeated a subject line.
Still, over the years I have created some subject lines and styles of subject lines that appear on a regular basis. Starting on my birthday, some of these old friends will go on hiatus while others will be retired (possibly forever, possibly not) and the remainder will get promoted to regular usage. Details follow…
Mostly Purple Patty: I have started most months with an MPP subject line since October 25, 2006 and I see no reason to stop now. Patty, you are like the bizarre children’s book daughter I never had.
Bucky & Squint: You guys have been with me since the beginning, but it’s time to retire you. Go back to Fargo and enjoy yourselves. Oh, and your cut from that cathouse in Juarez will arrive by courier every month.
The Ten Blue Budgies: I’m shipping you lot back to Australia with a lifetime supply of budgie chow and mirrors to fight with. You did good work, mates!
Doc Tempest: Of course, your work is never done, Doc, so you’ll be sticking around and taking up a position at the start of the first week of each month, unless Patty has dibs on.
Mrs. Wangdoodle: Retirement…and the many gentlemen at the East Wixby Senior Living Village…calls to you, my dear. Please, no tears. We’ll always have Flatbush.
Handsome Joe: It’s a promotion for you, my little fictional children’s book Basset Hound! I will try to use you a lot more that I have in the past.
Potawango Island: No way am I done with you! So many wonderful species of flora & fauna still left to introduce to the world.
Dr. Silkmelon and Mr. Porkwaffle: If I cannot give up Potawango Island, how then can I turn my back on the hearty men who discovered it? Onward, gentlemen, ever onward!
The Chapters: I am not yet done with you, but I think we shall give Our Hero (if not the French and the wicked and corrupt Church) a few months off. However, we shall await your eventual return with bated breath.
The Flying Spanaducci Sisters: Go, ladies, and tour with Billy Rose’s Big Show. You knocked ’em dead here, girls.
It’s All Fun & Games: Not done with you by a long shot.
Harry Potter: You get a nice long break, Harry. Give Ginnie my love.
Ok, that’s it for now. I might have missed a couple, but I’ll deal with them as they pop up. Now I’m off to work. Y’all stay out of trouble.
After The Change Came: Series 2
Sin And The Fishing Trip
I am just a couple of hours back from a short camping and fishing trip with Doc, his dad Bill, his uncle Carl and Roscoe. At first, Doc and I were just going to fish here locally, but his mom, his aunt, his sisters, Grace, Lily, Babe and GiGi told us all that they wanted some woman (or, in Babe and GiGi’s case, doe and bitch) time, so we were cast out into the wild. Doc’s gnomish brothers were sent off on some sort of Gnome Scout function. Nick, being just a puppy, stayed home with GiGi.
So off we went into the chilly, but sunny and dry wilds of the Placerville area where we set up camp and spent a couple of days fishing, drinking, eating camp food, swapping lies and generally being guys. It was totally fun and at night, Bill and Carl would get out the guitar and fiddle and serenade us. Sometimes we’d join in, although my singing voice will sour milk and Doc’s is barely passable. Roscoe, on the other hand, has a great voice that is not unlike that of George Jones.
We caught a fair number of fish, including a bunch of Golden Trout. We ate some and salted the rest down to take home. At one point, I hooked something big way out in the middle of the American River, but whatever it was, it snapped my line like it was sewing thread. Bill thought it might have been a Giant Carp.
About halfway along the trip home, Doc got a Wizard Summons and was teleported away. Knowing how much he hates both of those things, I expect he will be in a pretty foul mood when he finally gets home. On the plus side, he will no doubt have invented several new curse words.
Well, friends, I’m off to take a bit of a nap before I do the domestic thing. This apartment looks like a gang of teenagers lives here. After that, it’s QuestWorld for me while Babe catches up on some episodes of the third season of Firefly. I’ll blog at y’all later.
…no pie for me
A Message Dealing With Things To Come
Changes are afoot here on the Dociverse Blog, Gentle Readers. First off, starting on my birthday (Jan. 29) I’ll be doing more Doclopedia posts. how many more? Well, this year’s theme is 365 Days, 500 Entries. Yeah, I didn’t learn my lesson with 365/365.
Not all of the entries will be long ones. Many will be quite short, and not all will be part of a multi-day theme, although I will be tackling the alphabet again. As before, I will ask for reader submitted theme ideas every once in awhile on Facebook and/or Twitter.
I am also vowing to do at least one non-Doclopedia post per week and I hope to hell y’all will comment on them.
Finally, there may also be the odd bit of collaborative world building, which will benefit from, you know, your collaboration.
I hope y’all enjoy what will, no doubt, be a mind roasting 365 days for me. I can already predict that January 29, 2013 will find me partaking of strong drink and cackling with laughter.
PS: There will be some slight changes at the Fiction Blog, too. More on that later.
After The Change Came: Series 2
Sin In The City By The Bay
As you can see by the title of this entry, I’m in San Francisco. I’ve only just arrived a couple of hours ago after yet another day of painting butterflies and flowers for Mage Daphne. About noon, I had made up my mind that I needed some mental health time, so after knocking off work at 3:00, I went home to clean up, pack a few things and gather up Babe for a little jaunt to the Greatest City On Earth! A quick trip on the Sacramento to San Francisco Express and here we were.
Now, although The City is way different looking than it was back before The Change and my untimely death, it’s still a vibrant and exciting place…only greener and more like a bunch of small villages collected in the place where a big city used to be. All of the various neighborhoods are still here (Noe Valley, The Castro, Nob Hill, The Marina, Chinatown, etc) but they’re separated by greenbelts and woods and streams and such. You can still take public transportation just about anywhere 24/7, so you won’t see many cars.
And of course, there are still a zillion great places to eat, drink and meet up with people of your preferred sex. In my case, that person this visit would be Gina Torrance, fellow artist and QuestWorld teammate. Gina works primarily in watercolors and does some of the most beautiful landscapes you’ll ever see.
I’m ending this post because now that we’ve finished eating some fantastic Thai takeout and have Babe and Newton (Gina’s Smart Dog) set up with movies and snacks, we are getting dolled up and going out for dancing and drinks. I’ll be wearing pre-Change Vera Wang and looking good doing it.
More bloggage sometime tomorrow after sleeping in and then shoe shopping!
