Welcome to my Project 365! This year I will be posting a photo a day with a wee bit of explanation. You can follow along via email or RSS (with the links in the left-hand sidebar) or on:
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Here are my three favorite posts from this year so far:
(If you are here to find out more about my stories and games, please head directly to my “Fiction &c.” page.)
I love my notebook, but on days like today I worry that my analog to-do list isn’t capable of handling everything I throw at it. Occasionally I flirt with a digital task manager …
And then I think of all of the ink I’d be missing out on.
Writing from: my study in Portland. Listening to: FunkyPlaid watching NFL.
FunkyPlaid and I watched the first two episodes of “Stranger Things” tonight. It is taking every shred of my adult willpower right now to go to bed instead of watching another.
Writing from: my study in Portland. Listening to: nothing, even though I really want to listen to the “Stranger Things” soundtrack. I don’t want to stumble across any spoilers!
Nearly twenty years ago she crash-landed on Earth. I couldn’t pronounce her alien name but “Tazendra” works all right. If I promise to fork over the food she begrudgingly allows me to cuddle her for a few minutes at a time. It’s a good arrangement.
Writing from: my cuddly study in Portland. Listening to: Zen take a vigorous bath.
FunkyPlaid and I hosted our friends C & R for a wee Labor Day cookout. After we ate lots of grilled meats and veggies, we retired to the game room for a go at Mystic Vale, my new favorite game. Mystic Vale is similar to Dominion as it is a deck-building game, but it goes one step further and allows players to craft the individual cards in their deck as well. I found the mechanic ingenious and much easier to learn than I expected it to be.
This is a photo of the best card I crafted. I can’t wait to play again!
Writing from: my study in Portland. Listening to: my inner adult telling me it is well past bedtime.
Work today was rather instructive: I researched a plant that grows outside the library which turned out to be Solanum dulcamara, also known as bittersweet nightshade. It isn’t as toxic as deadly nightshade, but still isn’t anything you want to be snacking on in a parking lot.
Pretty, though, isn’t it?
Writing from: my non-toxic study in Portland. Listening to: so much “Prison Break”. It’s over soon, and I’m glad; Season 4 consists mainly of gratuitous vengeance interspersed with structural engineering puzzles. Only not as exciting as I just described it.
