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Hit the ground burnin and woke up frostbit

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Today was a Tuesday, in case you were wondering.  I don’t know what it is about Tuesdays.  But today was definitely a Tuesday.  I think I need a T-shirt or something.

At any rate, on the way home from work the following two songs flashed into my head.  I still have every syllable of both songs memorized.  I probably haven’t listened to the Kool Moe Dee song in the larger part of a decade.  It’s really weird how the music that you were listening to when you were in middle school and high school sticks with you forever.

Or maybe it’s not, I dunno.  It’s not like I’m not still listening to the same stuff.   🙂  At any rate, enjoy some old-school hiphop while I go to bed early and try to recharge enough to make it through Wednesday.

Shoulda written a post yesterday 

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Today I have a lunch with relatives, a high school graduation, and what will certainly be a very busy work shift tonight.  So this may be all you get.  

Saaaaaturdaaaaaay

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1) Managed to make it through last night without any old high school acquaintances drunkenly stumbling to my front door or anything like that.  So that’s good.  I gotta make it through work tonight without anybody finding me but they’re all supposed to be at a baseball game so I figure the chances are minimal.

2) So far this has not worked out as swimmingly as I might have hoped.  You guys seem to enjoy it when I humiliate myself (seriously, posts that boil down to “here’s some dumb shit that I just did because I’m an idiot” dominate the top 10 around here) but not many of you are spending money to make it happen.  🙂  You still have about thirteen hours!

3) I’ve been having a real problem with Amazon removing positive reviews of The Benevolence Archives— there are currently four reviews listed on the site, two five-star reviews and two four-star reviews.  There should be seven; three four-star reviews and four five-star reviews.  Luckily for me, I’ve got copies of the deleted reviews, and I think I’m gonna post ’em on the page later today or tomorrow.  I need to redo the BA page anyway, so I may as well get all my reviews up where people can actually see them.

Plans for the rest of the weekend include getting the damn Baen story done arrrgh and Redgarding the bathroom, or at least preparing the bathroom for Redgarding, with painter’s tape and plastic and such.  How are you?

In which I parent effectively

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10398420_1176432005526_3036154_nIt’s Friday, which means it’s Daddy Day; the boy didn’t go to day care today and he and I are spending the day together.  Which, so far, has meant flipping through cartoons and various animated things on Netflix while I have discussions with strangers on Twitter.

I am a lousy parent.

Good news is I’ve got all day today plus Saturday and Sunday to get about 2000 words out to hit my target for the week, so it’s not like I’ve got a ton of other stuff to do.  Maybe I go really nuts and not pay too much attention to things with screens today.  🙂

(Yeah, right.)

Oh, also: turns out my 20th high school reunion is this weekend.  I would rather be fed to sharks than go, but I’m really glad that I actually looked at the schedule yesterday, because I was considering taking the boy to the zoo with my parents tomorrow and one of the reunion events is tomorrow at the goddamn zoo.  So that could have gone quite poorly.  God, I hate that I still live in the town I grew up in.

And yes, I’m in that picture up there, but I’m not telling you which one I am.

Possibly all you get today

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It’s going to be a busy day– I’ve been invited to my first high school graduation, as some of my kids who were in my sixth grade classes when I started at my current district have insisted that I attend their high school graduations today.  Which makes me feel insanely old.  I have former kids who are older than that, of course– I started teaching in 2000-01, after all, so my first former students graduated high school ten years ago– but none of those kids sent me graduation invitations.  That’s at 2:00, and I ought to leave 45 minutes or so early if I want to get there and be able to get a half-decent seat, and I work at OtherJob at 5.  It’s gorgeous outside, so it’ll be at least 11:30 before I get out of there, and we’re probably going to be busy as hell tonight.  In between now and then I’d maybe like to hang out with my son a bit.

So, yeah.  That’s Saturday.  Then (hopefully) relax all day tomorrow and then power through the last three days of school.

Oh, and I started the new novel last night.  Here’s the first sentence:

The halfogre couldn’t shake the idea that he’d made some poor decisions.

Enjoy your Saturday, y’all.  I may be able to post a picture or two but it seems highly unlikely that any additional blogging will be happening.