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[cancer] Closing in
Surgery is in two days. Nothing like a nacho-ectomy to brighten one's holidays. Still, I think this is a good time to have this surgery. I've been narrowing more and more. It's increasingly difficult to respond to email, and I've become almost utterly single threaded. I know from last year's ...
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[photos] Your Monday moment of zen
Your Monday moment of zen. Mushroom, photographed by the_child . © 2009 B. Lake This work by B. Lake is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 United States License .
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[links] Link salad stares down the barrel of a difficult week
The Torque Control post on my book Green has spawned a fascinating coments section — Go check it out. I'm not saying anything there for obvious reasons, but I'm pleased and a bit amazed at some of the careful consideration of my book going on. Company Wants To Drill For Whiskey Lost In ...
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[personal] Early turkey and sweetness by road
Very nice early Thanksgiving dinner at my parents' with the_child , shelly_rae , Mother of the Child and lillypond . Which was good, as I'll be eating via IV whilst in a drug-induced post-surgical haze this Thursday while the rest of you (Merkins) are chowing gallinaceously. But best ...
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[photos] Amanita Muscaria
Taken at my parents' beach house on 11/21. Amanita Muscaria . Diameter of the cap was about 6 inches. As usual, more at the Flickr set . © 2009 Joseph E. Lake, Jr. & B. Lake This work by Joseph E. Lake, Jr. & B. Lake is licensed under a Creative Commons ...
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[photos] Your Sunday moment of zen
Your Sunday moment of zen. Me in 1971, probably Hawaii. © 1971, 2009 J.A.K. Lake This work by J.A.K. Lake is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 United States License .
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[links] Link salad hears a high lonesome sound
A bit more on Interzone 225 — With novelette "Bone Island" by calendula_witch and me. Get Fuzzy on the perils of authorship (again) The Extraordinary World of Ex Libris Art — (Via Dark Roasted Blend .) Best Use of Exploitative Tactis — Drawn! with a very strange, short ...
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[personal] Heading for the coast
the_child , shelly_rae and I are about to head for the coast. See you all on the other side, hopefully with pictures.
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[photos] Your Saturday moment of zen
Your Saturday moment of zen. jtdiii ca. 1981 or so. © 1981, 2009 Joseph E. Lake, Jr. This work by Joseph E. Lake, Jr. is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 United States License .
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[links] Link salad takes the last train to the coast
The Good. The Bad. The Ugly. — Kameron Hurley riffs on a recent comment of mine about copy writing vs fiction writing. Two Lumps The Emerging Field of Biophotonic Communication — The growing evidence that cells communicate with photons is generating an exciting new field of ...
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[cancer] Generosity
I've been receiving some very kind emails, along with cards and letters and a few packages. tamiam sent an inspiration book and DVD. Deborah Ross knitted me a fine hat. And today, a very kind and thoughtful librarian sent me a generous monetary gift. That last gave me significant pause in ...
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[food] Knot rolls, per my mother's family
Single recipe (plus/minus 2 doz rolls). These are stupidly tasty, as well as being rather simple, as yeast breads go. Combine 1/2 cup boiling water with 1/2 cup Pet milk; set aside Combine 2 pks or cakes of yeast with 1/4 cup wrist warm water, dash of sugar, set aside to proof Cream 1/2 ...
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[personal|cancer] Counting down the days
the_child , shelly_rae and I had a very lovely evening with frogworth and his family yesterday. We met at [ Error: Irreparable invalid markup ('<a [...] ?powell's</a>') in entry. Owner must fix manually. Raw contents below.] <lj user="the_child">, <lj ...
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[photos] Your Friday moment of zen
Your Friday moment of zen. Another flower from the Bull of the Woods hike at Taos Ski Valley. © 2006, 2009 Joseph E. Lake, Jr. This work by Joseph E. Lake, Jr. is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 United States License .
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[link] Out on the road today, link salad saw a Black Flag sticker on a Cadillac
jaylake.livejournal.com — A reader reacts to Green [  Powell's | Amazon | Kindle | Barnes & Noble | Borders  ] — And she likes it... The Guardian on best science fiction titles — In which I am favorably name checked. And title checked. Enterprise ... (more) [link] Out on the road today, link salad saw a Black ...
[travel] My mom, on getting to know you
tillyjane , a/k/a my mom, recently spent three weeks traveling around the West, much of at the Grand Canyon doing trail maintenance and habitat restoration as a volunteer. When she returned to Portland, she began writing up her days as a sort of irregular journal. The emails were so ...
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[photos] Your Thursday moment of zen
Your Thursday moment of zen. Flower on Bull of the Woods trail, about 9,500 feet, Taos Ski Valley, NM. © 2006, 2009 Joseph E. Lake, Jr. This work by Joseph E. Lake, Jr. is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 United States License .
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[links] Link salad files its nails while they're dragging the lake
A reader reacts to Green [  Powell's | Amazon | Kindle | Barnes & Noble | Borders  ] SFWA with a podcast of the Google Books Settlement panel I was on at WFC The Polish Army in France — WWI poster from Vintagraph . What the Future May Hold — Bob Herbert on ...
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[personal|cancer] Randomosity
Nice walk up Twin Peaks this morning. I'll miss it, as I don't know when I'll be back in SF in the foreseeable future. I'm likely under a travel restriction through about July, though I may be able to sneak down to California briefly over the holidays. I'm returning to Portland this afternoon,  ...
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[photos] Your Wednesday moment of zen
Your Wednesday moment of zen. © 2009 Joseph E. Lake, Jr. This work by Joseph E. Lake, Jr. is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 United States License .
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