So, I finally got home yesterday evening, lasted long enough to unpack my car, and sat down on the couch. That was all she wrote. The next thing I knew, it was morning.
All in all, my publish...
2024-09-04 19:31:55 +0000 UTC
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Yesterday was a long day. I wandered through PART of ONE of the buildings hosting the vendor halls. The sheer volume of nerdy, geeky, niche stuff is enough to stun a rhino. I kid you not. I also sp...
2024-08-31 12:03:16 +0000 UTC
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So…life happened. The apartment move ran up hard against the deadline to leave for DragonCon. How hard? I quite literally turned in the keys for my old apartment right before I loaded my car and ...
2024-08-30 01:58:59 +0000 UTC
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Sen managed to impose one day of not being bothered with anything by anybody. It was a decision that would normally get a lot of resistance from all those people who were vying for attention and ap...
2024-08-24 09:57:20 +0000 UTC
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Even getting the displace villagers into temporary shelter turned out to be a monumental and time-consuming task. There was a lot of, to Sen’s thinking, needless confrontation about that temporar...
2024-08-23 07:50:11 +0000 UTC
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“What is that?” Sen asked as he peered skyward.
“That’s my big bird, Papa!” exclaimed Ai from her perch on his arm.
“Well,” said Sen thoughtfully, “it certainly is big....
2024-08-22 04:09:00 +0000 UTC
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After a hiccup or seven (as per usual), my internet service has been successfully moved to my new apartment. My new office is 90% of the way there, although that 90% is only as of 5 minutes ago whe...
2024-08-21 04:11:55 +0000 UTC
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Okay, so I've got a few things to throw at you guys. The furniture assembly phase is not complete, despite my best efforts. Shipping delays have slowed that, but it is mostly done. Do...
2024-08-18 23:11:17 +0000 UTC
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“What happened to you?” asked Analina as Terry approached his house.
Terry stared at the Adventurer’s Guild admin and thought, Oh, dear god, why is she here? ...
2024-08-16 09:30:10 +0000 UTC
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At first, Terry just had to focus on doing what he could to heal up. That meant dragging himself far enough away to find some dire wolves there weren’t frozen straight through. It wasn’t really...
2024-08-15 04:21:02 +0000 UTC
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While the burning pain in his leg did diminish over time, giving credence to the healing theory, it was also sapping his energy in a frankly alarming way. He supposed that was to be expected. Pain ...
2024-08-14 09:53:37 +0000 UTC
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Okay. We're rolling up on the middle of the month, which is when I tentatively guessed that I'd be starting the next Unintended Cultivator book. So, I'd venture that a lot of people are rather impa...
2024-08-13 07:57:53 +0000 UTC
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Okay, self, let’s not fight pack predators in the future, thought Terry. Because this fucking sucks. He pressed a hand against his leg where one of the dire wo...
2024-08-13 07:23:31 +0000 UTC
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Terry’s jian had already taken on that ominous red glow that, he belatedly acknowledged to himself, he should have asked other-Terry about two seconds after the first time it happened. That blade...
2024-08-11 14:30:40 +0000 UTC
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The next few hours were an exercise in frustration for Terry. While his intentions had been good, his skills at forest craft were somewhat subpar. He’d spent enough time in that forest while flee...
2024-08-09 06:56:49 +0000 UTC
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“What do you people do with your time when you’re at home?” asked Terry as they sat around the table and ate breakfast.
Jaban looked over at him with a curious expression and said, “T...
2024-08-08 07:39:56 +0000 UTC
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Okay, so in an unusual turn of events, things happened faster than I expected. I got the keys to my new place yesterday. On the whole, that's a good thing. It means that furniture and appliances I ...
2024-08-07 09:57:47 +0000 UTC
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Terry had half-expected some kind of fallout for dismissing that contract from that random lord. When nothing terrible had happened after a few days, though, he started to relax a smidge but only a...
2024-08-07 08:40:33 +0000 UTC
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Terry stood by the stove and stirred the stew occasionally while Analina gave him the scant few details she had about the contract. He could boil it down to one, very uninspiring sentence. A re...
2024-08-06 08:35:51 +0000 UTC
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So, last night was an adventure. I had a bit of plumbing problem that involved a lot of water all over the floor. The problem itself wasn't that hard to fix, but it was also something that couldn't...
2024-08-05 06:58:24 +0000 UTC
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It turned out that making a house that hasn’t been occupied for a while actually livable was more work than it looked like on the surface. Terry had assumed that it would just need a sweep and ma...
2024-08-05 06:35:32 +0000 UTC
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Terry stood in the middle of an empty room and tried to wrap his head around the idea that he owned the place now. He’d come from a place where closing on a home routinely took a month or more. H...
2024-08-03 07:29:53 +0000 UTC
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“And that was when Master Marrek told me that I was never going to be a good adventurer, but that I would make an excellent administrator,” said Analina in a rush that had been going on for the...
2024-08-02 08:50:11 +0000 UTC
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“You can’t come into the town,” said Terry for the tenth time.
Drumstick made pitiful squawk-roars and gave Terry what he’d come to recognize as it’s version of sad eyes. Dusk was n...
2024-08-01 07:01:17 +0000 UTC
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With the prospect of Adventurer’s Guild assholes looking for him to join their factions, Terry became even more invested in getting south and finding somewhere to hole up. The grim specter of pol...
2024-07-31 07:28:02 +0000 UTC
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With his deepest secret in the open, Terry got a much more thorough, if wildly haphazard, education about the place where he’d landed. He also recognized that most of the information would have s...
2024-07-31 04:24:36 +0000 UTC
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Okay, so the brief trip out of town has been successfully concluded, and I've returned to the safety of my... Cave? Socialization avoidance domain? No, that's not it. Oh! Right! My apartment. And a...
2024-07-30 04:04:29 +0000 UTC
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Terry still found himself debating about exactly how much to tell them, but they were right. They did need to know and there probably wasn’t a safer group to which he could reveal he true origins...
2024-07-28 21:07:46 +0000 UTC
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Terry ended up walking past the market on his way to leave town only to find Haresh, Ekori, and Jaban there looking around with vaguely horrified expressions on their faces. He walked up behind the...
2024-07-28 06:29:21 +0000 UTC
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Hey everybody. So, I spent most of my day behind the wheel. I got where I was going, but I also got myself a nice little migraine. I'm going to take some medication to see if it'll take the worst e...
2024-07-27 04:01:20 +0000 UTC
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