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Recent entries july 4, 2018 - 2018-07-04 the triangle continues of courtney, boobear, & nyota - 2018-07-03 Cookie so cute telling, "Hello" to sparrows - 2018-07-01 lovebirb in love - 2018-06-30 wren with fluffffff - 2018-06-24 Read my new book, The 10 Best Things You Can Do For Your Bird at Amazon or at many other fine distributors like Barnes & Noble, iTunes, Kobo, and more. By public demand, and after a delay of an embarrassing number of years, I've finally put my notorious essay, Ender and Hitler: Sympathy for the Superman, free on the fabulous internets. A bibliography of my published books and stories. Here's a simple card-counting FAQ to get you up to speed on the basics. Here's the true story of the notorious DD' blackjack team, told for the first time on the fabulous internets. No other team went from a starting investor's bankroll of zero to winning millions of dollars. A Sadean take on Asimov's classic Three Laws of Robotics can be found in Roger Williams' NOW REVIEWED ON SLASHDOT!!! The Metamorphosis of Prime Intellect. Adult readers only please -- explicit sex and violence. For updates on the "Dead Tree Project" and other topics, you may visit the official fan site, Passages in the Void.. My Bird Lists -- My Louisiana State Life List, My Yard List and, tah dah, My World Life List. HEY! What happened to the Peachfront Conure Files? The world's only OFFICIAL Peachfront Conure site now features free peachfront conure coverage, including a magazine length Intro to Conures previously published in American Cage-Bird Magazine, now free on the web. I offer the best free Peachfront Conure information on the internet. If you have great Peachfront Conure info, stories, or photos to share, contact me so I can publicize your pet, your breeding success, your great photograph, etc. on my site. Thanks.

a sunday drive 2012-12-31 - 8:23 a.m. Visited J. yesterday to play Santa Claus and drop off my handmade bottle of organic satsuma vodka. Her landlord, for whatever reason, picked December as the month to start renovating the house. Result: J. was unable to start the picture framing business. The contractors were still hammering and banging even as we visited. What a mess, but the place already looks great on the inside. She has decided to go back to full time work and buy a new car in the new year. A wise decision, methinks. It sounds like they already have extra work lined up for her at the college... I bid on a rush job at Elance. $490 or so for 7,500 words, with a hard limit of I'd want to be finished on January 4. I get back a "congratulations, you've been awarded the job" email. However, when I opened the contract, he'd changed the dates and numbers. I wouldn't have noticed if he'd just shaved off a tiny amount but he changed the bid to $180. For a rush job? Not from anybody as good as I am, she said modestly. I declined. He also changed the date, to January 6, which suggested to me that he didn't even read my bid, since I made it very clear that I had a hard limit of wanting to be done before I left for Argentina. I'm not going to haggle over a rush job anyway -- it wastes his time as well as mine -- but the second red flag was enough to let me know that this guy is probably a problem client. I read somewhere (I'm paraphrasing) that in life you can have it done right, you can have it on time, or you can have it cheap -- pick any two because you're not getting all three. There are too many "writers" today working for free for me to compete on cheap, so I'll focus on doing it right and doing it on time. I only got two clients in 2012 once I decided to open up to freelance writing again, one of them a micro job, but I'm encouraged at how quickly I got any paying clients at all in this business climate. In the new year, I'd like to get at least three -- hopefully not to include any micro jobs! Stay tuned. later While playing in her window playpen, Nyota -- to her horror -- just spotted an Orange-crowned Warbler playing all by itself on the troubled satsuma tree. She can't quite understand why it's allowed. That's HER tree. She can see it. So it's HERS. back - next All Rights Reserved, Copyright 2002-2017 by Elaine Radford