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Category Archives: Personal

Journaling, photos, letters home, and other little mementos to remember me by.

2007 Goals: Thrilling Conclusion

by Rob Friesel

Personal goals for 2007: after last quarter, let’s see where we landed for 2007 overall: Write approx. 80,000 40,000 new words of fiction. This goal morphed so many times over the year. First it was focused on 80k words in my novel project; then it was 80k new words on any project; then 40k new […]

Grudge Match

by Rob Friesel

Final score: Me A. 533 432 A good strong game all around with some solid plays and clever word choices on both sides. A. had a great opener with “DAZE” and kept the lead for several rounds. Wasn’t her fault that I managed to play “SQUIRE” and “QUEER” back-to-back. And then drop “KNAVERY” two turns […]

mid-December perblog

by Rob Friesel

Between the dreams and linkdumps, it’s been a while since I’ve put any written stuff down on this here web shingle. Quiet isn’t always bad, I suppose. No ends of busy lately… The thermometer stayed in single digits all day today. F-ing brrr… Interest certainly waned for outside activities today; and alas, didn’t make it […]

sayonara

by Rob Friesel

Well, it’s official. My old Shadowrun sourcebooks are all up for sale on eBay in one big lot. Feels a little weird to be giving these up (assuming someone will take ’em) — but as I was telling A.: they’ve been sitting in the basement for a year and I haven’t touched them. And before […]

Sunday night

by Rob Friesel

Sunday night. Weird weekend. Sadly, took down most of the garden yesterday. Turned over the soil, etc. Going to need to pull the carrots and beets on Thursday whether they’re ready or not. Same with the last couple butternuts. Going to be sad. Then (this morning) dropped a bunch of cookbook reviews into GoodReads over […]