Gads. Spent the last week working on my application for Literary Arts’ Oregon Literary Fellowship. Turned it in today. This is my third attempt at the yearly award, the first year I hand-delivered my application about an hour before it was due, last year about two hours before. This year, I actually had all the [...]

Just updated to the latest WordPress software from 2.2-something to 2.5.1. Mostly backend stuff, but heck, it’s something to blog about. Also still tweaking the theme. There’s a laundry list of things I’d like to fix in this, over the upcoming weeks, but it’s still sooooooo much better than the generic WordPress theme.

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I went up to New Seasons to get some groceries and was whistling along to the classical music coming over the store speakers. The checker looked up at me and said, “Is this Bach?”
“I’m pretty sure it’s Vivaldi,” I said.
He says, “1812.”
“No,” I say, “The 1812 Overture is Tchaikovsky, this is Vivaldi’s Four Seasons.”
“No,” he [...]

Alright, it’s been over a year that this has been sitting stalled. Now that I’ve quit my job to write (more on that later — really), I can spend some time spiffying this blog up. Posts and explanations to come in a few days, with a redesigned theme to follow in coming weeks hacked together [...]