“Your legacy will be one of obscurity. Everyone succumbs eventually. That’s a given.” #writing #life

Have you ever decided to grab a programming framework and decided to just use it without reading the “tedious” docs, and sample code? Yeah, that’s me and PIL. The height of understandable/readable programming documentation was “Macintosh Revealed”. Fight me! #programming

“What do you fear most? The thing you won’t tell anyone, or yourself, that you fear? Tell me.” #writing

Some days I wish I had a writing mentor. #writing

People who hate on the Comic Sans font are the same ones who insist you wear a suit and tie to business meetings, then get drunk at the office party. #life #failure

Tentative short story title: “Wolf’s Den”. #writing #shortstory

“What are friends for?” “To kill your dreams, to hold you to reality, and wean you from your misgivings.” #writing #throwawayline

Yay! 1st draft of the short story is complete. It needs a bit of tightening up, but it’s pretty solid with a good message, which I didn’t plan on initially. Tomorrow, I go full-bore on working on the thriller. #writing #shortstory

You need to hold yourself accountable. If you can’t do that you need to find someone who will hold you accountable. #life #success

I’m still waiting for warm weather.

Banana custard cooked.

Happy National Tweed Day

Good morning. Step back to see your way around. Time for the ceremonial coffee.

Tomorrow, I’ll do more of what I did today: no mutilated bodies, no vicious animals, and no late night meetings in sleazy smoky bars full of underworld thugs intent on killing me.

What is your origin story?

Cool. A couple of people decided to order my books while chatting with me at the restaurant at lunch. #writing

I’m slowly narrowing my choices for a folding ebike… Aventon Zizzo GoCycle #ebike

#phillyete is this month… I’m looking forward to it. It lets me get out of the house. Well…forget that this year.

“When I grow up I want to be a swindler. I’ll make a list.” #writing #throwawayline

“They met by the river. He drowned her.” #writing #throwawayline

“I’m no longer associated with the dumb ones.” #writing #throwawayline

How short was your shortest hike?

Sigh (not really). I’m still not done the short story. It wants to keep going. No, it’s not a novel/novelette. It just needs to answer questions and that takes words… #writing #shortstory

“My mom always told me, ‘Men are no good.’” “Your mom has been dead over 30 years. I think you’d learn to think on your own by now.” “You always hated my mother.” #writing #throwawayline

“A 46 year-old white male body was found floating in the river this morning. The police identified it as that of Jonathon Brainbury of Oakmont. Cause of death was determined to be excessive ear wax.” #writing #throwawayline