Author Archives: Bob Evans

A quite busy life

I’ve been away from the ‘net, but it is because real life has been ratehr hectic and busy. Not all of this busy has been a bad thing. I am continuing work on my new Seth jackson novel, today I passed 25,000 words and I still have not grown to hate it, I’m awaiting results for Q2 Writers Of The Future, I saw a dear friend during Comic-Con (which I did not attend but she did) and I have started work on a space RPG system building off the D20 open game content.

I have also been a little stressed at the day job has been very busy and my arthritis has been acting up, however I will not cry into my soup.  I am on the whole happy and productive.

 

 

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My sister has a blog

I’ve added it to my blog roll like a good little brother. It just launched today so we’ll have to see where she goes with it.

http://thomjoy.us/musings/

 

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I think it is going to be a nail bitter

Looking at data like this, I’m seriously thinking of taking the day after the election off from my day job. Because my typical election party may go well into the night like it did in 2000. (Now I have jinxed, but for whom?)

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A pleasant holiday

Even though the 4th fell in the middle of the week, throwing off my internal clock, I had a quite pleasent holiday.
The evening of the 4rd, we had friends over for board and card gaming. Afterwards, when my sweetie-wfe had gone to bed, it turned into a lively politicla discussion with two progressive, two conervatives, and myself.
The 4th itself was a day spent with my sweetie-wife. We walked over amile through trails where the regions natural biome had been preserved. Then we played a card game of Dominion, she won, but our skills are so closely matched that most of the time it is the luck of the deck that makes the difference.
We finished with a nice dinner, hmmm steak, and watching the second half of 1982’s Cat People. I hadn’t seen the film since the early 80’s and my sweetie had never seen it unedited.
We did not go out to fireworks – I stayed in and watched a classic Noir film Naked City –so we did not see san diego grad goof.
Hope everyone had a fine and fun fourth.

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Happy 4th of July

Today we celebrate an action of congress. Today is the celebration of our declaration of Independence, when the thirteen British colonies on North America announced their divorce from their mother country and proclaimed themselves a new nation.

This nation was not created perfect, it was created under the taint of slavery and without a concept of equality as widely applied as today, but it did proclaim the principles that have set the course for ever increasing freedom and equality for mankind.

I am immensely proud the be an American. I am passionately devoted to equality, and while perfection can never be achieved by mortal man, in my opinion no nation has done more for the betterment of humanity, ethically or materially than the United States of America.

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Do not be alarmed

That sound you hear, like muffed popcorn cooking in the distance, is nothing more than conservative heads bursting as they learn that it was Roberts and not Kennedy that gave the court its 5-4 decision upholding the ACA.

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