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On Meal Delivery Services — Trying out Hello Fresh
Now with Aia gone, I decided to try a meal delivery service. I ran into quite a few hurdles but finally tried Hello Fresh. I probably won’t be doing this again. Choosing the Service Meal delivery services come in two types: Prep and No Prep. I looked at both but eventually went with a service…
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Wrestling with Demons
I’ve spent the last year in revision hell. Rewriting book one was a good choice, but understanding what I’m doing with it? Well. We can’t all be prodigies. I think I’m finding that groove, though I still confuse the readers. Amid the pitfalls of EXPLAIN ALL THE THINGS and god we hate her…I’m finding that…
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On Being Hacked
I’ve been struggling since last summer as my websites have been hacked over and over again. This week came the big one, where they tried a full on take over of all sites. They completely brought down my series bible, nearly erased Denver Fiction Writers, and finally the main site went down completely resulting in…
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So she brought the cheese
I go early on Sunday’s to write. I usually get a drink and a lot of time I get the deviled eggs. Everything was mostly fine. I finished the eggs and was eating the puddle of cheese and bacon left on the place. Taking a bite, I set the fork down on the plate, engrossed…
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Relearning Command Line
Trying do more with programming, I finally had to admit to myself that my command line skills were a bit rusty…Windows 3.1 rusty. Other than some pings, ipconfigs, and maybe a cd or two, I haven’t really worked with anything on that level since maybe 2005. And why would I? I could get around just…
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Listen Published Today at Circlet Press
My short, Listen, was published today at Circlet Press. The link is NSFW, but when you have time, please check it out. I wrote this several years ago as part of a challenge. It’s a fun little story.
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Your Team is Not Agile
The concept of Agile teams is a something that can be freeing. It’s an ever rejuvenating approach to creation and can be great to make large project manageable. You can apply the concepts to all kinds of planning. For example, I use it for how I outline what I write. At certain stages, I reevaluate…
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Abadon-syntax: a new syntax theme for Atom
I did it. Finally. I hit publish and everything. It’s been such I long time since I contributed to something. And it feels small, but I created an Atom theme and published it to Atom package repository. You can install it by searching for Abadon under themes. Abadon-syntax theme page Abadon-syntax repo Things I learned:…
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Meat & Veggie Package
Grandma Pat made this for me. She got the original recipe from some magazine and it used chicken and green beans. We’ve messed around with this recipe a lot. But you can use any combination that you find tasty. You need four things for the filling: meat, cheese, a veggie, some lemon juice (or other…
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Why Being Mistaken For a Younger Age is Not a Compliment
People frequently think I am 10 to 20 years young than I am. At first you may think it’s a compliment. I have no wrinkles, I dye my hair, I suffer from cystic acne, I use the latest tech and coding techniques, and I can move very fast. These are all young traits. A man…
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Setting Up a Raspberry Pi – Things I Learned (Woot! Node.js!)
I bought a Raspberry Pi. This little make device, toy, stuff, right? Well I wanted to have a dev environment, and this was best choice. I learned some things that I thought I’d share. Like most dev things, there seems to be a contingent that wants to keep things hard. And like most of the…
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And So I Twitch
The truth is I pretty much lost it. I want to do things, but as things spiral out of control, even when they are going well, there is no end until you bounce. So, in January, I hit and bounced. Now I understand that this year has been shitty for a lot of people, and…
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A Colorado transplant to Washington, I’ve occupied a little corner of the Web Development space since 1995. I’ve had a whole spate of jobs where I did some variation of secretary/reception/call center AND built apps for note taking, sales data, sales person management, AND built/maintained company websites. I’ve been the web master of nonprofits, corporations, and small business organizations. In 2015 I became a full-time email developer working on clients in Tech, Retail, Hospitality, Entertainment, Financial, Pharma, Non-Profits and more. Today, I’m a Solutions Architect. I tinker in code, dabble in paint, carve out worlds, pound out words, cast spells, and save a universe or two. I have been creating art and writing all my life. In 2019 I moved from digital art to traditional with a story telling bent. When not creating I am hanging with my dogs, reading cards, traveling, playing video games.
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