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We made a long-overdue trip to our favorite little used book store today. I yielded the following tall tales from my to-be-read list:

Virtual Light
by William Gibson

Crystal Express
by Bruce Sterling

Farnham’s Freehold
by Robert A. Heinlein

Night of Light
by Philip Jose Farmer

The Call of Cthulhu and Other Weird Stories
by H. P. Lovecraft

Mice are nibblely little creatures. They chew anything that tastes good, like cheese or peanut butter, which is a very effective lure to use as bait for the trap. I would have never expected todays turn of events, though.

Dena’s car was having troubles running. Some days it would be fine, others it would die every time it came to a stop. We ran through fuel cleaner, water remover, etc. We exhausted our meager non-mechanical options and took the car to the dealership to be looked at. The problem turned out to be that a mouse had chewed through some wires and the moisture in the are was causing them to make some kind of electro-erotic connection. The computer was getting hot and bothered and shutting itself off.

There was also a recall on a fuel pump or gasket or something, so we got that replaced and got out of there for a measly $210, a far cry from what I was expecting to pay.

Time to make the cats earn their keep and toss them in to the garage for a couple of hours.

Wordpress, the software that powers this blog, released a new version recently and I, like many others, upgraded right away. As it turns out, there’s a minor bug in the XMLRPC handling that breaks my favorite blogging client Ecto.

If you’re using Ecto and Wordpress, you can apply the patch or you’ll have to wait for the next maintenance release of Wordpress.

Now that I’m all settled into my new office I’ve been able to organize my work flow a bit better. I’ve setup one workspace specifically for writing. Having a dedicated area to go where I can write undisturbed for an hour or two should help. I’ve already participated in my first Flash Fiction challenge at Absolute Write.

I’m happily back to using WriteRoom for my first drafts. I’m also looking at two other applications: Scrivener and Storyist. I’m going to give each of them a try and see if either one is useful to me.

I’m considering going to Confluence in July. We’ve been meaning to take another road trip to the New York area to visit friends and family and a stop in Pittsburgh could be arranged. If anyone knows of any other cons that are worth going to, let me know.