Right now I’m sitting in a cabin just outside Phillips, WI. Crysta and I are spending the week at the resort she went to growing up, just like we do every May to both celebrate her birthday and do something[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
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So this situation just honestly amuses me so much that I had to share. It also requires a lot of background, so please bear with me as I try my best to explain. I actually got this email a couple[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
My grandmother died last night. This wasn’t a shock or a surprise. Her health has been on the decline, and she’s been in hospice for the last month. She lived a long life, and in her final days she was[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
On Monday night a storm rolled through town. It only took a half an hour for the rain and wind to hit and leave, but in that time a tornado passed by about fifteen miles south of where I live.[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Even though I just got home, it’s time to hit the road again — as on Saturday (April 26th 2025) I’m going to be at Concinnity in Milwaukee, WI. Concinnity is a one day con held at MSOE downtown. This[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
So I just got home from traveling out to Maryland to visit my sister and her family for the Easter weekend. We got in the truck and drove the almost exactly one thousand miles to her home in Rockville, MD.[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
One year ago, on April 16th 2024, the first page of Peregrine Lake went online. One year since we first met Bev as she drove through a snow storm and said the exact thing most of us have said in[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Fandom is something we all get into because we, frankly, like something. I feel like that shouldn’t be something that I have to spell out, but every once and a while I find myself in a fandom space where that[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
So Meta/Facebook apparently used millions of books to train its AI model without the permission of the authors or publishers. These aren’t even books they purchased, but books they illegally downloaded. I’ve known about this for a few weeks (and[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
I love living in Wisconsin. I really do. I love living just south of the 29 divide between “up north” and the rest of the state. I love living in a smaller city too — all the advantages of civilization,[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
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