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Carbs are the enemy??

I was at the gym today, as I am four days each week.  I saw a fat guy sitting on a treadmill, huffing, puffing, face red and arteries ready to explode.  I wanted to tell him that he was going about this the wrong way.  But 75% of the time, I would simply come across...

I’m going on a jet plane…

Many jet planes, actually.  The first stop is Vegas for my Mom’s retirement party.  September 23rd-27th.  The second is San Jose for October 29th-November 1st for the World Fantasy Convention.  Much like the World Science Fiction Convention in Montreal,...

Women of the Apocalypse (updated)

The webpage is up and running: womenoftheapocalypse.com.  Excerpts, bios, etc.  Still a work in progress but check it out.  Let me know what you think.  Brian Garside did the banner, and the guts of the site are a wordpress design called Connections Reloaded (with a...

Call me Mr Runner-up

I’m doing the ‘con’ thing (wandering aimlessly through the parties, trying to find someone, anyone, I know) when I’m stopped by Renee (whom I had not met) and she says ‘you’re Ryan McFadden’.  Ummm, yes (not knowing whether it...

Damn, lost my hard drive

I’d like to say that it cratered, or that it broke, or that a virus killed it…but nope. I lost it. Gone, baby gone. All is not lost (err, whatever). I have backups on top of backups. But I did lose my digital rights management for songs I bought from...

Influenza

Seasonal flu has killed 36,000 in the US this year. Swine flu has a LONG ways to go to match that. Let’s keep things in perspective.