Blog Posts
I’m Out for Blood
Kris and I have been doing the Loscon blood drive for 32 years, but it’s been a long time since we were able to do another con like Worldcon or Westercon. This year, Westercon will be in Anaheim and we have the opportunity to do their blood drive. We had […]
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2023 GOALS
New year, time for new goals. Taking from what I learned last year, I’m trying to make more realistic goals, breaking them down into smaller sub-goals, and keeping in mind that discipline will be a key to some of these. SECOND STEAMPUNK SCREENPLAY: Finish editing through it: It stands at […]
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2022 Goals – the expurgated version (the one without the gannet). End of Year Edition.
For the full version, see my January 16th, 2022 blog https://dennisamadorcherry.com/writing/2022-goals/ POLISH OFF MY FIRST STEAMPUNK NOVEL: I plan to have this done by Presidents’ Day. Well… yes and no. It wasn’t by Presidents’ Day, but I did polish off my novel. The last step was to have Kris read […]
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Recipes in Review with Guest blogger, Vincent Reinheart
Greetings and Merry Christmas. I’m the Cherry household food critic, Vincent Reinheart. I’m filling in for Dennis this week so he can relax and enjoy the holiday. Of course, he will be cooking today, making roasted chicken, gravy, mashed potatoes, stuffing, peas and biscuits. None of those will be new […]
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It’s Beginning to Smell a Lot Like Christmas
Around here we have several traditions for the Christmas season. One of them is baking cookies! I have collected several cookie recipes over the years. Some are favorites that I always make, like the Hershey’s Kiss cookies. Sometimes I tinker around with recipes, like making the Hershey’s Kiss cookie dough, […]
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It’s beginning to sound a lot like Christmas
Around here, we have our own favorite Christmas songs that we listen to. Let’s start with my favorite J-Pop Christmas sing from my favorite J-Pop band, Puffy Amiyumi, “R.G.W.” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ggmWJoPiUdM Mostly, we like non-traditional versions of Christmas songs. Most of our favorites are from radio host, Bob Rivers. For example… […]
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Loscon 48 review
Actually, we didn’t see a whole lot of the con because we were busy. It started on Thanksgiving Day when I made cookies for the Blood Drive. Kris was also busy helping me with quality control. Friday, we did catch one panel we really wanted to see. Gene Turnbow and […]
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Back From Loscon
Just got back from Loscon and unpacked the car. Full review next week. Going to bed, now… Zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz… Dennis 139th blog completed. First Steampunk novel: 72,193 words. Need to expand to about 80,000 words. ß Didn’t work on it. Catching up on critiques and working on Blood Drive […]
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Well, one of them turned into this – It’s finally time to harvest some fruit. These were the first two to pop. They became chili last night. Not a new recipe, but one of our favorites. We harvested a total of 24 habaneros. Later these other ones will become […]
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Get Those Needles Ready
The Loscon Blood Drive is now two weeks away. And while the Red Cross is sharpening their needles, I have my own preparations to make. The flyer on the cover picture, for example. I also had to make the raffle tickets and the raffle ticket drop box. It’s actually the […]
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