Estonia was cool, if a bit small for my tastes. On to more important matters: what’s coming up here, and everything I’ve been doing which is unrelated to my current location. First off, I’ve been getting my fix of British … Continue reading →

In the spirit of experimentation which led me to write my commentary posts only just before the actual post goes live, I’ve decided to try doing the weekend open thread posts a bit differently too. Being my place to soapbox … Continue reading →

Here we are again: a weekend! If my stats page is to be believed someone is going through the archives, unless it’s my regular playing a trick on me. Supposing you’re new here, I now address myself to you. Hello! … Continue reading →

It’s that time of week again! I have good news and bad news. The good news is that Rakel’s story heats up in the next entry or two, and then stays heated up until about the end of her chapter. … Continue reading →

Dear readers, salve of my soul’s constant yearning for the adoration of millions, I bid you good evening. There aren’t millions of you, and adoration is probably too strong a word (‘tepid ambivalence’ is both more redundant and more apt, … Continue reading →

Ladies and gentlemen, good evening[1]. Another week passes without much in the way of news. You probably failed to notice that the Recent Stuff box now shows five things instead of four, thereby always showing the last two entries and … Continue reading →

With the techno-magic of scheduled posts, I am now writing to you from the past[1]! Readership remains steady on the order of 100. Tell your friends. In other news, I haven’t written very much of the current story lately, but … Continue reading →

A return to routine. Readership is steady at the 100 level. You are cleared to tell your friends again. I’m going to be using the chapters following the current batch to work on particular elements of my writing. Since the … Continue reading →

“I’ll take Before and After for 1200, Alex.” “The days Saturday, Sunday, and Monday, often used as a blog post title to encourage comments on any topic.” With that unfunny Jeopardy joke out of the way[1], thanks for reading so … Continue reading →

And so we make it through another week. Apparently I haven’t driven any readers away since last week, so I guess we can put that down in the good news column. Either my sole RSS subscriber has started to read … Continue reading →