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I’m not dead! Today’s Ebony’s birthday. She’s 19 today, which has kind of put some things in perspective, but I’m still advancing forward. After 22 years, I am finally closing on a construction loan Monday (4/20 amuses me far more than it should, kind of like 6-7…). After all this time, the house is finally…
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It has been nearly seven months since I went on hiatus, and I am sorry to say that I feel no closer to being ready to start back up today than I did on the day I started the break. After trying for months to get back in the mood, I think it’s time to…
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The last six months have… sucked. The day after I went on hiatus, Casper died. Kitty disappeared three days ago, and I probably will never see her again. And yet, after all the philosophy I’ve read, the most profound, soul-crushing realization I’ve had is… … None of it matters. In 20 to 30 billion years,…
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I had a request come in several months ago for a Jack’s Blacks story featuring a double date between a human couple and their dogs. The date doesn’t exactly go as planned, but it proves memorable for everybody involved! It is available on Amazon here, and I’ve also added it to the Books and Links…
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Welp, 2024 was an eventful year, a year in which I bought a shipping container and had it fitted out to be a lab and writing space separate from the house. A year in which a cat (Kitty) adopted me, and I adopted a dog (Sarge)—though the jury is still out as to whether I…
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I went back and reread my latest post on here (good grief, it’s been 4-1/2 months already?), and I realized I’m due for an update. Where to start? Well, first off, I’m not managing anymore—not officially, anyway. I’m back to designing circuits, and I have really missed it. There are tedious bits—I just completed the…
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I wish the thoughts would coalesce… My mind is going several different directions: I’ll tackle the last one first because it illustrates how intertwined all of these disparate trains of thought are. I have been watching a lot of historical documentaries lately, mostly on the history of the United Kingdom (specifically, the Stuarts, Hanoverians, and…
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Today, I am taking a mental health day. It’s the first time for me, taking a single day off for mental health and using sick time to do it rather than taking a longer vacation and calling it “mental health” tongue-in-cheek. But, although I have called my vacations “mental health” tongue-in-cheek before, I am taking…
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Jack’s Snacks Some of you might have noticed my newest experiment: Jack’s Snacks. I was inspired the other day when I read a particularly short story (under 350 words) that managed to actually tell a whole story with enough details to be interesting, but without the usual, large investment in building up to “the point”.…
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(For those coming just for the poll, it’s at the bottom of the page.) Status Update I have just been on a roll lately, haven’t I? It’s crazy what happens when the urge to write strikes and for the first time in a long time, I don’t have any commissions pending. A fair bit has…
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So, someone sent me a message on FA who’d found my profile on another site that I had completely forgotten I had, back from the days when I was into pony play. The person started asking me about it, and I have to admit that I really don’t remember a whole bunch of it since…
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Ahh, it feels so good to have broken through that writer’s block. This one has been on my list for a really long time, and I even had a poll up about it (thank you to the one person who voted), but I lacked the motivation to actually, you know, get started. Coming off the…
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Hey, all. I’m happy to announce that Amazon did indeed accept my latest submission. Here’s some info about it: Synopsis: Aimee is awoken roughly her first day of adulthood and made to go through the ritual all females of the tribe must endure. Will she be brave and rewarded, or will she be cowardly and…
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Welp, no takers on my request for commission ideas, so I finally figured out something to write about. Hopefully Amazon will accept it—I’m always nervous when I submit stories involving animals and non-animals—but I’m hoping that I skirted the line well enough that they’ll let it go. Other than that, diverticulitis sucks. I was supposed…
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So, I realized that I hadn’t updated my commission info page on here, even though I did update it on FA and IB. I fixed that, but as I was reviewing my changes, I thought, “Gosh, there’s an annoying amount of wasted space on this page.” Truth be told, it’s been a minor annoyance to…
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First, I’m happy to announce that Amazon approved the lasted Jack’s Blacks installment, In the Air Tonight. It can be found here. Synopsis: Roberto has come to Heimville trying to start over after a tragedy. But Heimville has its own problems, and whether he likes it or not, he will be called upon to overcome…
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Hey, all. Been a while since I last posted an update (other than a Jack’s Blacks announcement). First off, some sad news: I had to put Cloudy (one of the horses) down a couple of weeks ago. It’s a long story, but the short version is that the vet I contacted was unresponsive, and I…
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Hey, all. Not sure exactly why this one popped into my head, but it did, and so I set out to write it. It went a lot faster than Contract Breeder, but then again, it’s less than half as long, so it was a pretty quick write. Here’s the synopsis: Desperate for food and shelter…
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So, you guys know how I was gonna quit doing commissions so I could focus on writing Jack’s Blacks? Yeahhhhh… work has pretty much sucked up all of my free time, but I’m on vacation this week (only two more days… sigh…) and managed to knock one out, Setting Him Straight, available on Amazon here.…
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Tl;dr: I’m stopping commissions (except for ongoing commissions) in favor of Jack’s Blacks prompts. If no prompts come, well, I’ve got a number of my own to work on. A week before the start of 2023, I listened to an audiobook that described the difference in intrinsic vs. extrinsic motivators. Without going into great detail,…
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