Fun and refreshments along the way.
Spent most of the day in bed. That’s about it. Next week, my goals for the year in review. Merry Christmas, Everyone! Dennis 196th blog completed. First Steampunk novel: 75,970 words. <– Past 75,000. Goal: 80,000. Second Steampunk novel: …
Last year, Kris and I volunteered to set up the Friday night Ice Cream Social. This year we did it again. I think this is going to be an ongoing thing. Once you volunteer for something and you’re good at …
Vincent Reinhart, the Cherry household food critic in for Dennis. Dennis and Kris are out at Loscon 49. But before that, there was Thanksgiving. Dennis still managed to make a big dinner in his small kitchen – what he calls …
Part of the Loscon blood drive has always been buttons. This goes back to our dealers’ room days with the U.S.S. Alliance when we first got the button maker. Sometimes I’ve done the artwork when it’s of a more graphic …
Kris and I used to have a dealer’s table, both of us were in the art show and working the blood drive. And once at Phil and Ed’s Excellent Convention I also did camerawork at the masquerade. Now, without the …
As the one who does all the cooking in the household, I also do all the shopping. It’s been a challenge this year, especially with inflation as high as 8.5%. That’s why I’m grateful for Costco and buying everything I …
This is Yogurtland in Chatsworth on Nordhoff near DeSoto. Kris is getting more mobile, so we went there for frozen yogurt yesterday. It is one of Kris’s favorite hangouts. She loves to go there during the week, get some yogurt, …
I’ve been a One Piece fan for years. Maybe not as long as it has been around, it has over 1,050 episodes, but at least for twelve or thirteen years when it started airing on Cartoon Network’s Toonami block. Kris …
Considering Kris is writing her novels, “The Dragonfly Temple Chronicles”, it’s not surprising that we ventured off to CSUN (California State University Northridge) to see dragonflies. CSUN has a meandering stream that starts at a man-made waterfall and ends …
60 Years? How can that be? I remember when I was little, we lived in the city of Bell, California. One day we got a small box of cereal in the mail. You know, one of those boxes that come …