Tag Archives: Wump and Toop

Ten

Posted on June 24, 2020 by

Today my impossible dork of a firstborn, who we have nicknamed “Wump” for the purposes of social media, is ten years old. Last weekend, we were up at the family cottage for midsummer. A few of the adults decided to … Continue reading →

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Birds of Prey (and the Fantabulous Emancipation of One Harley Quinn) (a review)

Posted on February 10, 2020 by

This review has some spoilers. So here’s your warning. I did a lot of directionless ranting and waffling in this post. Without even any pictures to break it up. But here’s one.

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Random thoughts again, only now it’s Thursday.

Posted on January 30, 2020 by

I’m probably going to take another little hiatus while I work on the next book of The Steal of Time. For reference, that will be Grifter’s Heart and at latest draft I had five parts of it ready to post. That … Continue reading →

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Random … Tuesday thoughts? Yeah, Tuesday.

Posted on January 28, 2020 by

I sat and read the first two chapters of Tales of the Always Night to Wump and Toop tonight. It was an interesting experience. I became aware that the first main chapter was rather too much waffling and politics without … Continue reading →

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Random Saturday Thoughts, 2

Posted on January 25, 2020 by

Burns Supper tonight. I’m piping a little bit, although I don’t really want to anymore. I don’t want to do anything, I’m just so fucking exhausted all the time. Feeling okay this morning but it was a Hell of a … Continue reading →

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Return of the Jedi (a mini-review)

Posted on December 14, 2019 by

In preparation for Episode IX: The Rise of Skywalker next week, and given our extremely packed schedule for the next few days, I decided to give Wump a crash course in Star Wars. Basically, we watched Episode VI: Return of … Continue reading →

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Write Weekend 2019

Posted on August 4, 2019 by

Well, work starts in a few hours and that means my Write Weekend is over for this year. My Write Weekend, in case I haven’t mentioned it before, is the 2-4-day stretch where Mrs. Hatboy goes to the summer cottage … Continue reading →

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Ropecon 2019, with pictures

Posted on July 30, 2019 by

This year Ropecon was mostly about the cosplay. Which it often is anyway, for us, but this time I was really too worn out to do anything else. Plus the weather was dismally hot (despite the airconditioning in the convention … Continue reading →

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Post of thanks

Posted on July 25, 2019 by

It doesn’t look like I’m going to have time to do anything much this week, although there’s a lot going on and hopefully sooner or later I’ll be able to share some of it with you. Normally I’d leverage this … Continue reading →

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Interlude: The Fairy Tree

Posted on January 3, 2019 by

Over the Christmas break, I undertook a little creative project that I’m rather proud of. Now, I suppose I need to first offer a little background. My daughters, who I have nicknamed Wump and Toop for the purposes of this … Continue reading →

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