OK — I am not the one to be easily disturbed.  When I was little, I wanted to be a special effects artist and I had been advised on a program to familiar myself with human anatomy.  So, with all the glee that a small child could muster, I threw myself into the study of the human body.  Even after I learned that being a special effects artist required for more talent that I had at my command, I still learned about the human body and how it looked and how it functioned.

With the advent of the Internet, I learned many more things as my curiosity went from child-eyed owl of wonder to jaded accident vulture.  I learned horrible things.  I saw the depravity of man in its rawest form.  I witnessed the honest fragility of the human form.  I read about how dark our hearts can truly be at times.  “Man is a wolf to man” and all that… but this… wow!  I can’t stomach to listen to it.  It is unearthly.

It is this.  It’s on YouTube, so it is safe for work but oh… I have no idea how you’re going to take it.  There’s been a good amount of ink spread on the subject, but I have to know what rancid, voice lusty mind got the idea to take some child and… well… do that.  Its not as if there was a manual for that sort of thing being passed around for others to read (is that right? As I am writing this, my caffeine reserves are dwindling down to nil).  Bless their soul  — as some would say — to stain the whites of their heart with such… brrr…  I need to get off this topic and on to something else… and get some more caffeine.

There — I feel better now.  As I might have mentioned elsewhere, I am on vacation.  Have been for this week and will go back next Monday.  This week, I am planning on venturing out to the movies.  If “John Carter” is still in the local cinema, I will watch it.  If you ask me, I think it was doomed from the start.  It is as if people in Hollywood wanted it to fail, like the skit in Monty Python’s “Holy Grail” with the old man saying he was fine, but Eric Idle insisting he’s dead.  I’m wondering if there was some sort of incentive for this movie to flop.  I should read the trades to see if someone had a contract was terminated.  When I come back from the movie, I will give a full review.

This Sunday is also the premiere of Season 2 of HBO’s “Game Of Thrones” — and it is a series that I heartily recommend.  If you haven’t read the books, then get right on it.  If you haven’t watched the series — do that first.  With each book (5 out of 7) over 400 pages, if you start reading now, then you should finish the current series by the time he finishes book 6.  I love the series and I will definitely read it over again once I have the complete set… now, if I can only find a way to cryogenically preserve myself so that I can be alive when the final book is released.  Yes, Mr. Martin does take a while to finish and I have no complaints as long as the quality of the series remains the same.  I am certainly not rushing him on anything… not that I could anyway.

Well, I am off to bed now, so I can sleep in and continue my days off.  Maybe I should try to do something somewhat constructive.  Stop laughing.

Good Night, Gentle Reader.

Sincerely,

Seething With Apathy

Well, I got a new computer and I’ve been loading up games and other counter productive things.  I got the Steam stuff to load up OK, and I got my AD&D character generator loaded just fine.  However these two games won’t load up at all — and they are my favorite games.  Sure — I cheated after I played them through and three older games were able to work just fine, but it is the fact that I like these games and I can’t play them.  I still like pen-and-paper games, but groups are becoming harder and harder to find to play with on-line (especially finding people who like 2nd ed D&D [AD&D for everyone else] or even 3.0).  Dagnabbit.

On to other things.  As mentioned, I got a new computer that is will have nothing useful on it… until I decided to load in Microsoft Word and Screen Writer Pro.  I am still committed however for this

to be as non-productive a computer as possible.  I wonder if anyone else goes through this?  Being attached to the memory of old games, rather than ditching them for something new and improved.  Heck, I still have some old V:tM stuff that I use as a reference guide every now and then… although I have Changeling and Promethean with me, and I would love to find a decent online campaign for those (since they are also the reference books for my ongoing ‘Why I Should Write For White Wolf’ campaign) games.

But enough about games — I am going to go see “John Carter” next week since I finally have the week off (one of two planned vacation weeks, the other being during my birthday week) and personally — I don’t buy the whole ‘it’s gonna flop‘ thing.  What they consider a hit and a flop is as different as night and day.  Remember The Artist?  No one I knew had heard of that film save for one commercial… then it won the Oscar and now I can’t swing a dead cat without hitting an ad for it.  The day that Saving Private Ryan lost to Shakespeare In Love was the day that I quit watching the Oscars.

Anyway… the season finale for The Walking Dead was on, but I am going to save it for later (please, no spoilers!) so I can savor it in the quiet.  Also — next week is the season premiere of Mad Men!  This will be a great couple of weeks for avid TV watchers like myself.  I should do some stretches, I think.

As the theme for “Games Of Thrones” plays on my player (and I quiver in anticipation for the premiere in 2 weeks), I will wrap this small post by saying — watch this space for my first chapter in “Kith and Kin” now that I got the three World Of Darkness books.

Good night all, I should get to bed since I am going to be working 18 hours of overtime this week in preparation for my vacation.

Sleep well, one and all

Seething With Apathy

There are few games that I get genuinely excited about upon the announcement of a game, but this one hasn’t gotten me this excited since seeing the Halo: Reach trailer. In fact, when I play Halo: Reach, I still get that same little rush when I see the opening cinematic after playing it for the fiftieth time that I did when I first put it in the X-Box after getting it shortly after midnight opening day, and it was the only time that I took off of work just to play the game. I still jump when this happens. Before Halo, video games were a diversion for me – the real storytelling was when I was playing my pen and paper games. Now? I can’t wait for September for Borderlands 2 and Halo 4 is going to be like Christmas all over again because these games (especially Halo) actually advance a storyline. Games have come a long way from Pong (which I never really mastered anyways…)

On to other things – I got the main book for World of Darkness. Project: “Get White Wolf to Hire Me” is almost done. Now that I got the books, I can start putting the characters together and finish the plotting. I’m having a lot more fun with the building of the city, as I hate to say. I kinda like the game system and I think that the three best games are “Promethean: The Created”, “Changeling: The Lost” and “Geist” – the last two should have been in the old World of Darkness. Yes, this is also my Shou-Out: White Wolf Game Studio. They were far ahead of the “play a game to tell a story” curve that all the other games are desperately trying to catch up with. Support your local game company (and I have one now! Just down the street! I’ll have pictures next time) and get a game from White Wolf – or grab some of their fiction. Who knows? You might end up picking up my book.

I did go to the gym today – my schedule changed by an hour, so I am taking advantage of the new time to go to the gym. 60 minutes at 3.3 miles an hour and then straight home for dinner and try to get something written… which is why I feel so tired right now. There is little of anything else of importance to note – other than that I got assigned to my new desk over the weekend. I will try to take some before and after pictures and set them up here. I am not a fan of the new set up. It looks more like I should be ordering a sundae rather than taking someone’s call. I am not at all happy with some of these changes.

Well, dear reader – I am going to get some sleep and try to figure out a middle to one project, the end to another and how to start a third.

Sincerely,

Seething With Apathy.

I know that this post is coming rather deep in January, but I wanted to have something worthwhile to say… and if I couldn’t have something worthwhile, I’ll have something funny – and oh, brother do I have something.

This month, my homeowner’s insurance was cancelled because I had the temerity to be robbed and to have holes repaired in my roof. Well, I have new insurance and I was looking over what I am insured against and what’s not covered. As you read this list, keep this in mind: at some point, this had to have happened to someone.

Perils Insured Against

• Fire and Lightning (ok, that’s pretty straightforward)
• Windstorm and Hail (I’m in Kentucky, so tornado insurance is almost a given)
  • This peril does not include loss to the inside of a building or the property contained in a building caused by rain, snow, sleet, sand (sand? I’m not in the Sahara) or dust (is that a crack about my housekeeping?) unless the direct force of wind or hail damages the building causing an opening in a roof or wall and the rain, snow, sleet, sand or dust (another shot, sir?) enters through this opening (hole roof = good. Open door = bad. Got it).
  • This peril includes loss to watercraft and their trailers, furnishings, equipment, and outboard motors, only while inside a fully enclosed building (but, if I have a hole in my roof large enough for rain, snow, sleet, hail and dust [not my dust], then it’s not really enclosed, is it?)
• Explosion (another fairly straight forward one)
• Riot and civil commotion (yeah… Derby is coming up…)
• Aircraft, including self-propelled missiles and spacecraft. (OK, I don’t know what unnerves me more – the fact that someone said ‘what about missiles?’ and said ‘Wait, what about spacecraft?’… or that someone said ‘Wait, what about missiles and spacecraft?’ This doesn’t bode well for most first contact scenarios.)
• Vehicles
  • This peril does not include loss caused by a vehicle owned or operated by a resident of the resident premises. (OK – so I’ll just have to make sure I hit the driveway the first time)
• Smoke, meaning sudden and accidental damage from smoke. (Sudden smoke? Is there a gradual smoke? Am I going to wake up one morning and say ‘wait – is there smoke? When did this start?’)
• Vandalism and malicious mischief (as opposed to gregarious mischief? ‘I am gregarious and mischievous – let’s set this dude’s house on fire!’)
  • This peril does not include loss to property on the residence premises if the dwelling has been vacant for more than 30 consecutive days immediately before the loss (29 days, 23 hours – you’re good. 30 days, 1 hour – you’re screwed. Plan your tagging carefully, homies.)
• Burglary from within a building on the residence premises of which there must be visible evidence of forcible entry (hopefully they’re going to ignore the gaping hole in my roof and not track dust into my house.)
  • This peril does not include loss caused by burglary:
    • Committed by any insured
    • In or to a dwelling under construction, or of materials and supplies for use in the construction until the dwelling is complete and occupied; or
    • From any part of a residence premises rented by an insured to other than an insured (having been robbed, no jokes from me here – besides, I am saving up for…)
• Volcanic Eruption other than loss caused by earthquake, land shock waves or tremors (OK… umm… last time I checked, most volcanoes don’t just sprout up like mushrooms after a good rain. The ground is going to shake. Besides, if a volcano erupts near my home – insurance is the last thing I am going to think about. The first? THERE IS A (CENSORED) VOLCANO COMING UP IN MY BACKYARD! I AM SO KICKING MY REALTOR’S ASS!)

Here come the good parts…

EXCLUSIONS

We do not insure for loss caused directly or indirectly by any of the following. Such loss is excluded regardless of any other cause or event contributing concurrently or in any sequence to the loss.

• Ordinance or Law, meaning enforcement of ordinance or law regulating the construction, repair or demolition of a building or other structure, unless specifically provided under this policy (When adding a sunroom is outlawed, only outlaws will host summer parties).
• Earth Movement, meaning earthquake, including land shock waves or tremors before, during or after a volcanic eruption (umm… but volcanic eruptions are covered… so long as the volcano doesn’t make the earth shake. Burning hot lava? OK. Choking smoke? OK. Earth movement? You’re just out of luck… apparently they have more lawyers than geologists); landslide; mudflow; earth sinking, rising or shifting; unless direct loss by:
  • Fire
  • Explosion
• Water Damage, meaning:
  • Flood, surface water, waves, tidal water, overflow of a body of water, or spray any of these, whether or not driven by wind (umm… isn’t rain really just water driven by wind? So, is the rain covered, but not the flood, which is really merely an accumulation of rain water past a really safe point)?
  • Water which backs up through sewers or drains; or
  • Water below the surface of the ground, including water which exerts pressure on or seeps or leaks through a building, sidewalk, driveway, foundation, swimming pool or other structure (Thank God I have my secret underground glacier to supply me with water – wait, global what?).
• Power failure, meaning the failure of power or other utility service if the failure takes place off the residence premises (huh? So I’m covered if my neighbor’s power goes out and it drags me down?).
• Neglect, meaning neglect of the insured to use all reasonable means to save and preserve property at and after the time of a loss (look – I’ve had floods, volcanoes, earthquakes and spaceships hit my house. I know when I’m not wanted).
• War, including undeclared war, civil war, insurrection, rebellion, revolution, warlike act by a military force or military personnel (I know military people – this is also going to cover parties, get-togethers and beer runs), destruction or seizure or use for a military purpose (can you weaponize a keg? I know people who can…), and including any consequence of any of these. Discharge of a nuclear weapon shall be deemed a warlike act even if accidental (Hey, what does this button do? Dammit! I had two more payments!)
• Nuclear Hazard, to the extent set forth in the Nuclear Clause of Section I – Conditions (OK – if I wake up and my goldfish is sporting a third eye and I don’t have to use a night light to read at night – see my comment about volcanoes)
• Intentional Loss, meaning any loss arising out of any act committed:
  • By or at the direction of an insured; and
  • With the intent to cause loss (House? What house, sir? Oh, that – well, the soldiers got a little carried away. You know that I am covered against missiles, right? No, they’re not nuclear – good heavens, man – I am not irresponsible!)
• Condemnation. We provide no coverage under this policy if, prior to the date of a covered loss, the dwelling or other structure is declared condemned pursuant to local, city, state, federal or other government regulation. Upon date of condemnation, coverage will cease (so… after the earthquakes, alien invasion, volcanoes, windstorms and rain – do you think I’m going to actually look at my house and say ‘so spackle and primer and no one will know the difference!’)
• Criminal Acts, meaning any loss that results from the criminal acts of any insured, including tenants and/or their relatives, on the residence premises (What’s that smell? Oh, that’s the weaponized beer keg – pay it no mind…)

So – this is all the fun that being a homeowner can be. Just remember – they can take my nuclear, volcanic weaponized light beer anti spacecraft missile from my cold, dead and lava encrusted fingers.

Sleep well,

Sincerely to you, dear Reader,

Seething Apathy

Yes, I wrote these posts far before the midnight deadline. Just part of the “be ready to work” mentality I am trying to cultivate in my writing. A good example of what I am trying to accomplish is what this guy’s doing. He hasn’t missed a day since June of 2000. I am going to work for this novel – 70,000 words in 3 months (about 800 words a day Monday through Saturday).

At the risk of sounding like Tony Robbins – this is the time to do it. No one is going to do it for you. Hate your job? Find something you like to do. People play Magic: The Gathering, Halo and Gears of War for a living. People draw a salary by playing with Legos. Actors, writers, directors and artists all do things that we wish we could ultimately do: getting paid for doing something that you enjoy doing anyway.

This is the year to do it. Sure – the Mayans said that this was the end of their calendar. So – let’s not make them liars. Let the world that holds you back die a whimpering death. Let this year be the end of your old world and let the world you want to rise out of its ashes. The only thing that will ever hold you back is you. Let that part of you slip away with the morning (and the hangover).

Just do it.

Wishing you success, Dear Reader.

Sincerely,

Seething With Apathy

Well, this has been a good year for me. I got published. I know what to do now, so this next
project is going to be better organized. This is going to be the year I finally get something really going. Got a plan to be followed and a long list of ideas to be executed – there is nothing else that needs to be done other than the turn of the year and a clap of the hands.

I hope that everyone else has a wonderful New Year. 2011 wasn’t the best of years, but whatever doesn’t kill us… causes us great pain, but pain tell us we’re alive. Not the best thing to keep in mind, but hey – whatever keeps you going, right? I hope that this year for you will be as equally transformative. I hope that this will be the year that you will look back upon and say ‘that was the best year ever’… but let the other one be even better.

I want to thank the two people who read this blog – they have been very good friends to put up with the roller coaster that this blog can be at times. I hope to continue to entertain them as I expect for this to become much bigger in the year to come.

Good Luck to you. I hope to see you prosperous in 2012.

Sincerely,

Seething With Apathy

Everyone goes home and celebrates the holidays by ripping open presents and squealing in joy. Not me, good readers – I spend it watching horror films. This year’s lineup is:

• The Adjustment Bureau
• Ichi (not ‘Ichi: The Killer’ – I’ve looked for it here to no luck – which is rare because they specialize in the hard to find video. I might have to buy it before next year.)
• Cloverfield (I saw it before, so I’m not going to watch it on Christmas.)
• Slit Mouthed Woman (kicking off Christmas)
• Uzumaki
• Orphan
• Teeth
• Population 436
• Drag Me to Hell (hopefully wrapping things up by midnight.)
• A Christmas Story

Not all the films here are horror films, but when midnight rolls around, the screaming will start. J I am alone for the holidays, which is how I like to spend time when I’m not where fragments shook with a whir that creeps through my bones. I am not a huge fan of big parties or a lot of crowds, which is why I am staying home for the most part – just me, my menu and the movies. I might write reviews of these films after the New Year starts.

Speaking of the New Year – here are the traditional resolutions for the coming year. The tradition is I announce the resolutions on January 1^st and promptly forget them by January 2^nd. This year, I’m declaring them now, so I can forget them sooner – this way, I can fulfill the ‘no longer procrastinate’ resolution and actually get something done for a change. Now… on the oldies but goodies”

1. This will be my last year on the plantation (as it were). I will bend every effort to getting a book written and published (even if it’s through Amazon or Barnes and Noble).
2. Speaking of arduous labor… I am taking a couple of weeks off, but on January 3^rd, I am right back to the workout regimen – hey, I got to be up at five AM anyways, might as well do something with my time.
3. Procrastination… whatever…
4. I am actually going to put forth effort into putting a little more of my money aside. When I quit my job (and what a glorious day that will be), I will need to have something for when the royalties aren’t as high as they should be (not that I’m getting anything, anyways…).
5. Here’s an odd one – try to get more sleep. I admit, I try to pack in 26 hours in a 24 hour day and getting 4 or 5 hours a night might not be the best thing. So, with that being said, if I can keep #3 and #1 – hopefully #5 will fall in line. We hope.

Well – I wish everyone who reads this a Merry Christmas, Happy Hanukkah, Blessed Solstice and a Happy Festivus for the rest of you. As for me – more movies!

With all sincerity to you, Good Reader,

Seething With Apathy

I am going to say it and be done with it: I hate the holiday season. I get depressed… very depressed… during this time. I wake up to the darkness, and I spend all the daylight hours inside and I travel home in the darkness. All I want to do is stay home and play Borderlands and drink absinthe. I haven’t written anything outside of this for a couple of weeks. I have been working out regularly, but it’s now getting to be tedious. I just want to be left alone.

So in that spirit – I am making myself write something, even if it’s this dinky little blog. I’ve been getting some good ideas, but it’s a hassle just to get to the laptop to put them down. Thankfully, I’ve got some notebooks nearby, so I’m not losing anything – in fact, I got one for the ‘Pentateuch of Able’ and I am hoping to get some more traction on it… but really… who am I kidding? It’s a chore to get out of bed, much less psyche myself up to get to the gym and then work – especially work. Those of you who know what I do for a day job can understand why I am less than enthused to go there even on my best day. Now? *Snirk*

How tired am I? It’s not just ‘running on 5 hours of sleep’ tired. It’s something deeper than that. I’m just tired of being here, under these circumstances, with this life. If there was a way I could shed this life like an old coat, I would feel better. No pain, no muss, no fuss – just a step to the side and far better circumstances than what I have now.

I’m just tired.

Well – at this point, I would link something from YouTube with someone saying “Dead Man Walking” – but for some odd reason, the link function won’t work. Worked the last time I used it – not that long ago. Oh, well – that pales in the idea that I am going to have to go back to work on Tuesday. Heck, hell and hoolies – this was a fast week. Of course, I know why it was fast… I was enjoying myself. Waking up when I wanted, going to sleep when I was tired… bliss. On the up side, I only have to work Tuesday through Friday, and take the next Monday off. I get Thanksgiving off, and I only really have to work one full week – the last week of the month, which should be somewhat slow.

Anyways – I had mentioned in a previous posting that I was going to take my book down from $1.50 to free just to get some sort of traction. Well… as it ends up, I can’t do that. I can reduce it to 99 cents (did you know there is no cent symbol anywhere in Windows?), but I can’t make it free. Interesting… but at least I’ve gotten one additional sale so far. I told some friends of mine in the AHS and I think one person has bought it. Hey, each sale brings me closer of actually having a profit.

If I seem a little flighty, it’s because I am going to stay up rather late tonight to finish off the show Ringer on my DVR and try to squeeze in a movie. I need that space on my DVR. I was down to 70% from 95% last Monday – quite a feat since I got caught up on Homeland, Boardwalk Empire and watched Darkness (not a good movie). If I can get through Ringer and watch Tangled and Nikita, maybe throw in another movie for giggles – I should get down to 50%, and work on the other series (NCIS, Unforgettable) on the weekend.

As far as the other novel goes – a delightful cram session got up to average. Seriously, I re-did the opening and now everything flows better and I can even have an ‘incident’ on the first page gets everything moving. Feels great! I think this is going to be one of my rare ‘one-shot’ novels. No sprawling universe, no sequels – just one story to entertain you all for a few hours. I don’t want to get any more into it than I already have for fear of giving away too much, but you’re going to love it! I swear.

There is also another neat thing coming down the pipe – Halo’s 10^th anniversary edition is coming out next Tuesday, and yes – I am going to have my copy on that great day. Once I get Halo 2, Halo 3 (if that wasn’t stolen) and Halo Wars – I am going to play each one in order. It’ll be nice to see the whole story unfold from the beginning – from Halo: Reach to Halo 3: ODST. Good times – for me at least.

Well, I have one thing left to try in order to try to fix my Office problem. If that doesn’t work, then this computer will be just for writing and I’ll use my net top for blogging.

That’s all I have for now, Good Reader. Sleep well.

Sincerely,

Seething With Apathy

Well, it’s Wednesday here. Still on vacation, but like that trip to the doctor or your mom telling you that ‘we need to talk when you get home’ – or any woman in my case – there is a lingering feeling of dread. I know I still have 3 more days of vacation and Saturday and Sunday to get through… not that it’s been a chore. I finally got caught up on Boardwalk Empire and now going to work on Sons of Anarchy. When that’s done, I’m going to work on Homeland and maybe Ringer. I am going to give Revenge one more chance, but if it can’t hook me in the second episode, it’s going to get flushed out. I’m not obsessed with TV, mind you – but I have some films that I want to watch later on today and I don’t want to lose them. Just to show you that I am not obsessed with TV, I am going to go on to my other obsession.

I’ve started a new project, and I have to give an unofficial shout-out to the writing software Writeway Pro. There is setting in it that allows you to figure out how many words you would need to write a day to obtain a goal. You type in the number of words in your work and the deadline you have – adjust it so that certain days aren’t counted (I take off Sundays) and it figured out how many words you need to write a day to hit that deadline. I plugged in 30,000 words for my new project and the deadline of January 31^st, 2012. Get this… I have to type in about 400 words a day in order to hit my deadline. I can do that. Seriously, I can do 400 a day Monday through Saturday. The think that is going to be tricky is trying to stay under the 30K limit. I think that’s going to be enough to tell the story. With any luck, I can get it over to Amy for editing and get some cover art done and put it out there by summer. Expect a lot of updates about this to keep me motivated.

About the story: think of it as the frenzied three-way love child of Gaslight, Event Horizon and I, Robot conceived aboard the Mary Celeste. This is going along the idea of that the Three Laws of Robotics, while very sound; don’t cover the idea of paranormal phenomenon. I don’t know if Isaac Asimov was an atheist, but the laws, while they handle conduct very well, are not very metempirical. The First Law isn’t very friendly to the idea that there are corporeal and incorporeal humans – so, how it is going to differentiate between Uncle Bob and Recently Deceased Uncle Max? Of course, Isaac Asimov was a noticed scientist, so I doubt that the idea of ghosts factored into the Laws. That notion – the idea that there is no overt mechanism for a robot to acknowledge that the thing giving it a command is indeed a human – gave me the idea for the book which is going to be titled I/O Error for now. I did have to add some definitions to the Laws and added in a new Law, but the fundamentals are still the same:

1. A machine cannot harm, or allow to come to harm by either action or by lack of action, a human being
   

   1a) Human is defined as any non-permanent, non-essential person either aboard the ship or on the immediate vicinity of the vessel.
   

2. So long as it does not contravene the First Law, the machine cannot harm or allow to come to harm, either by action or inaction, a member of the crew
   

   2a) Crew is defined as a permanent, essential person charged with maintaining the continuing function of the ship.
   

3. So long as it does not contravene the First and Second Law, the machine will obey the orders of the crew.
   
4. So long as it does not contravene the First, Second and Third Law, the machine will obey the orders of the governing AI.
   

   4a) Governing AI is defined as the current operating system in the mainframe tasked with observing and operating the major functions of the ship.
   

5. So long as it does not contravene the First, Second, Third, or Fourth Laws, the machine will obey the requests of human passengers to the best of its abilities.
   
6. So long as it does not contravene the First, Second, Third, Fourth or Fifth Laws, the machine will obey the requests of any legal authority.
   

   6a) Legal authority is defined as any single person with power granted through appointment by properly sworn-in personnel at the city, state or federal level.
   

7. So long as it does not contravene the First, Second, Third, Fourth, Fifth or Sixth Laws, the machine will preserve its own existence.
   

OK – that’s a lot of laws to go through, but the idea is similar to Asimov’s Three Laws, but I added in more definitions that would suit a litigious society. That should cover all major points of interaction, and leave enough of a loophole for me to run about in. I did some research about ghost vessels – there are a lot more than the Mary Celeste and the Flying Dutchman, which is good for me. It gives me a wider pool to draw from story wise. This story is heading right to Kindle and Nook once it’s edited. For me, this is a pure profit book and I look forward to putting it out.

Well, I have a couple of errands to run and the 400 words. To show there is no doubt – there is about 1000 words in this post and I was only blathering about this book. Just think how much I can do when I am actually writing the book.

The caffeine calls.

Good Afternoon to you, Good Reader.

Sincerely,

Seething With Apathy