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My First Birthday Party
Gracie and I had never had a birthday party with other kids at it. The most we got was Grandma and Grandpa coming over for cake. We wouldn’t have minded, except kids on TV had birthday parties full of other kids all the time, and then I was invited to Read more
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GDC
Last week, I attended my first Game Developers Convention (GDC). It was also, with the exception of IndieCade, my first game developers’ convention of any kind. GDC is… it’s big. Worldcon? Tiny in comparison. Like 6,000 people go to Worldcon. 28,000 people attended GDC last year. That’s about the population Read more
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What am I up to?
My whelm feels somewhat over, so I thought, rather than force myself to make a new blog post on some topic, I’ll list what I’m up to now. Tonight I’m reading at Appletree Books for National Poetry Month. It’s very kind of them to invite all the poets who participated Read more
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A Day In The Quarantine
Tuesday, May 12th, I woke up at 8:38am. I don’t use an alarm clock, I’m a natural riser, and I shoot for about 8:30 so I can get dressed and make a pot of tea and be at my laptop by 9. This morning, I’m not feeling it. I want Read more
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Day 146
“For the quarantine,” I said, “I can run the workshop via zoom.” “Yes, I’ll run the game devs meetup on zoom. For the quarantine. Sure, I’ll do the excuse-to-create meetings, too.”After all, it was temporary. I could run a few monthly meetings. What, just for a few months, right? It’s Read more
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Everything I’ve Bought in the Pandemic
March 13, we were sent home from work. That was a weird day and a weird week, and I recall mostly being impressed how the headlines kept updating just like in a novel about a pandemic, getting steadily worse. The first thing I bought from home was a planter and Read more