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Still here….

Wow, I’ve sucked at posting here lately…sorry about that! It’s been a bit on the busy side the last few days, and making matters worse, the air conditioning at Casa Jaquandor decided to take a nose-dive, so things there haven’t been too comfortable and it’s taken a lot of effort just to work up the proper enthusiasm for writing in the first place. So, what energies I have been able to summon on that front, have been devoted to the book, which is kind of slow-going right now anyway because I’m in the stage of the game where the pot is a rolling boil and I don’t wanna screw things up too badly.

Anyway, we’re still here! How are you all doing?

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Geekapocalypse Soon!

It occurs to me that this fall is going to be a mite busy.

The new Thor movie comes out in November.

The second Hobbit movie comes out in December.

Season three of Sherlock comes along in October. (It’s not set to air in the US until 2014, from what I’m reading, but that won’t stop me.)

Scott Lynch’s long-awaited third novel in the Gentleman Bastard sequence, The Republic of Thieves, arrives in October.

JW Rinzler’s The Making of Return of the Jedi also hits shelves in October.

Along with all this is the usual season returns of teevee shows I already watch.

Oh, and our annual fall getaway, which will be the first weekend in October.

And NaNoWriMo in November.

And in December, I should be able to start the editing of Princesses In Space II: The Fall of the Planet Reichenbach (not the actual title).

I guess I’d better enjoy the next 2.5 months, because I suspect that starting mid-September, things are gonna roll!

UPDATE: My friend and former college roommate and best man at my wedding, Mr. Chris Gustafson, points out that the title of this post should be Ageekalypse, and not that abomination that I actually used in my pre-coffee stupor. Ach!

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A Very Public Service Message

Blogging in this space, which has been kinda sporadic anyway, will be even more sporadic over the next week, because I am on vacation. I’ll probably still have some stuff up, but don’t hold your breath.

And now for something completely different:

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Busy Busy Busy Busy Busy

Heckuva lot going on this weekend, folks. I’ll barely be able to scratch out time to write, much less post anything here. Keep faith! Content will one day appear here again, THIS I SWEAR BY THE BLOOD OF — well, that’s too weird. Back to the mine shafts!

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On being less mean

Yesterday I had one of “those days”, when much of the external stimuli with which I had to deal seemed purposely placed in my path by some higher being in order to really test my resolve to think more positively. And yes, I found myself slipping back into old, familiar thought patterns, which left me feeling pretty icky the rest of the day. Maybe I need one of those wrist-snap things that Larry Hagman used to hawk for the Great American Smoke-out, and snap my wrist every time I feel myself slipping into familiar, but not undesirable, negative thoughtspace. (Here’s a quick Instagram reaction I had to yesterday at one point.)

Anyway, I just read a message on Facebook by SF author David Gerrold (whose place in SF lore would be secure if the only thing he’d ever written was the Star Trek episode “The Trouble With Tribbles”), in which, in the course of explaining why he doesn’t like laughing at photos of morbidly obese people, he says something that lines up with my thinking these days:

As human beings, we have the capacity to stand for each other, to support each other, to be compassionate and nurturing. We have the very human capacity to make a difference for everyone around us — not just friends and family, but everyone we come in contact with. Other human beings deserve to be treated with respect and dignity.

This isn’t a new realization for me. It’s merely today’s recognition that toxic behavior of any kind makes me uncomfortable. (Last year, I edited out of my life a friend of twenty years because despite her unerring moral compass, I couldn’t stand the way she bullied and abused anyone who dared to question her unerring moral compass. Instead of teaching, she attacked. Her unerring moral compass was applied to everyone else’s behavior but her own. I also culled her enablers and yes-men.)

I’m not perfect, I make mistakes, we all do. But as a rule of thumb — I make a continuing effort to NOT judge people by who they are. Instead, I respond to what they say and what they do. I look at their behavior. Because what a person says and does is the clearest expression of what he or she is up to on the planet.

I think Facebook (and all other social media) has the power to transform who we are as a society. We can learn from each other. We can learn to listen to each other. We can learn to respect each other. Or we can be a global circular firing squad.

Every time we post, we’re making a choice. We’re choosing to elevate ourselves and the people we connect with — or we’re choosing to kick ourselves a little bit farther down the muddy slope. I choose not to be an enabler.

Agreed.

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