Geek
Today I let the inner Geek out… I attended my first convention, it’s not that I didn’t want to go before now. It’s just that they are all too far away or too expensive. I got a ticket for Newcastle Film & Comic-con went with a friend yesterday and had a brilliant time. The venue wasn’t very…
I have a problem…
I was sent this image from the amazing How I met your mother tv show recently in response to the number of books I am buying, I don’t blame anyone for thinking that I needed an intervention, even if it is a joke. I have loved reading most of my life and it is extremely…
Vatta’s War – SF Series I have just finished
Book 5, Victory Conditions, Elizabeth Moon Warning Spoilers ahead… you have been warned! Vatta’s War is a military SF series that is comprised of 5 books. This one being the last. I will be the first to admit that I am easy to please when it comes to films or books. Its not often I…
Google and the Pi
I often remark to my grown up kids (18,19) at the lack of skills with computers in their generation, when I was their age I was playing around in DOS and writing silly little programs in basic, that is the kind of thing that got me into wanting to work with computers. If the PC…
Keep the Faith & Yahoo
I have managed to keep up the posting, although i’m not taking my own advice and still doing it last thing at night and so on some nights I have forgot. I really need to take control of my time management somehow. Anyway tonight’s post will be about Yahoo, you remember that site. It’s the…
A Happy Biker
Got rid of my baby a few months ago because of financial reasons, and as the weather starts to turn I began to get depressed…… I have scraped the barrel to get something to get me on the road again, tomorrow I go to pick up my new baby, not quite as pretty but a…
The Writers Bureau
I got tired of the endless Procrastination and the debilitating self doubt so I have signed up with the Writers Bureau for the Comprehensive Writing Course, I know some people do not like that sort of course but when people are useless like me at getting in gear and need the kick up the butt…
6th June 2017 – My Procrastination
After the last couple of posts I have been trying to think on why I Procrastinate so much and it’s not because I don’t want to write, I want more than anything to see my books in the local Waterstones next to my favourite authors. To be able to leave work and write full time…
Big Brother…..
I have been watching the big brother series this year and as usual its full of really strange people, this year it United kingdom of big brother and the people are supposed to be normal people from all over but I shudder to think that this is a representative of our country. There are a…