 I wasn't in Miami when I took that photo; Don Ameche and Betty Grable were no where in sight. I've never seen the movie, but I plan to do so.Spent my first week in Byzantium. Is the incumbent's withdrawal from the race inexplicably tied to...
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"An aged man is but a paltry thing,A tattered coat upon a stick, unlessSoul clap its hands and sing, and louder sing"--Excerpt--Sailing to Byzantium --KeatsI have in fact sailed to Byzantium. I'm at a new locale across the state where we're temporari...
&nbsp;The weary miles betwixt Le Chateau du Chat Gris and the UCC prevented me from posting last week. Today I'll recount what I can remember with help from my recent newsletter. What I can't remember, I'll fabricate to the best of my recollectio...
"How dull it is to pause, to make an end,To rust unburnish’d, not to shine in use!"--"Ulysses" --TennysonThe sentiment above is true, but Bugs in the System has reached an end, and it's not dull. It's action-packed and heavily stacked with excitement...
&nbsp;&nbsp;Les Freres Corses finally completed the level--I forget the number, but it was the one with the dragons and glitches. Unfortunately, the time traveling DeLorean was killed in combat with a dragon or some other mean beastie and our...
&nbsp;Sometimes things don't go as planned:&nbsp;The bugmageddon novel isn't complete, but I did get it nearly finished on Saturday as my fingers danced over the keys while episodes of Magnum P.I. (the good old one) played in the background.&...
"I am a part of all that I have met; Yet all experience is an arch wherethro’ Gleams that untravell’d world whose margin fades For ever and forever when I move."--"Ulysses" - TennysonDo you have a favorite line from that poem? If so, let me know.It's...
&nbsp; I saddled up and loaded the steel steed with requisite equipment and bags, including a sandwich for the road. We passed the first brief leg of the trip racked with doubt and trepidation. If everything went as planned, it would be our longe...
"We hope that, when insects take over the world, they will remember with gratitude how we took them along on all our picnics." -- Bill VaughnThat's not happening in the bugmageddon novel. Those insects have no gratitute. Here's an excerpt from the fi...
&nbsp;Who can foresee the future or weave it from the past? Who knows what a man will speak or when he'll breath his last?The future lies hidden in impenetrable cloud, while the past, with each expiring second, passes beneath a shroud.The present...
&nbsp;Interview with Amanda MuratoffAuthor of The Pantracia Chronicles&nbsp;Please tell me a little about your current work in progress. We are currently working on Book 12 in the Pantracia Chronicles! It is the second book in the final tril...
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;My, my, my, look at the time. It's that time of the week again. A blank blog whispers for attention. Time is slip sliding away, and slipping, slipping, slipping into the future. Who invented time? Was it a conspiracy by...
Things are somewhat turbulent in my neck of the woods with the primary election happening in a few days. I won't give the particulars, but depending on the outcome of a local contest my day job may be coming to an end. Big changes could be just aroun...
&nbsp;Fun Fact:&nbsp;Bohemond and his Norman troops scale the walls of Antioch,&nbsp;in an engraving by Gustave Doré Gather round and hear the tale of the taking of Antioch in the spring of ten-ninety-eight. A fair Norman prince, Bohemond...