Author: leilani

After a short nap I’m semi-awake tonight, but on my way to curl up with the sandman in a bit. Our cable TV is history.  After my last bill I sucked it up and ordered a satellite alternative, chopping away about $75 a month from our expenses.  The up-front kicker was painful but it won’t…

I m on day 4 of my 5-day vacation.  I am trying my darndest to get the rewrite done on my book.  The story’s there and pretty much in place, this is just the cleanup effort before I throw it out to the masses.  It’s a fantasy story I started originally when my youngest was…

No, I’m not angry or upset.  Just the opposite – I’m tickled pink, or at least pleasantly surprised.  I’m not losing my mind (no more than usual, anyway) but losing weight.  I knew by the way my shirts fit that I had lost some of the weight but the bottom half seemed stuck in neutral….

I saw an interesting article this afternoon. In it, DARPA is offering a cool half million bucks to someone who can build an interstellar starship. I think it’s an interesting concept and that DARPA doesn’t have the slightest wisp of a clue. Really, DARPA? Half a mil? For a project NASA can’t do for billions…

If you use RSS and got notice of a post that ain’t there, blame Apple. Posting via iPad can be a bitch and correcting their helpful spelling monster is impossible. To try again… Saw a friend I hadn’t seen in a couple of years. We go back around fifteen years but had lost track. She…