Illuminatea

This has not been one of the best weeks I've had. That's not to say it's been all fire and brimstone -- it hasn't been an Old Testament kind of week -- but the victories and good things have been few and far between. One of them happened last night; I passed a needed certification test on my first try. I just got word that my grandmother died. ...

We found out today that Alaric has a second set of armpits. No, it's true. You and I would call them ''elbow joints'' but in Alaric's world, they're ''second armpits.'' Bet you didn't know that.

Yesterday evening, I found out that author James Oliver Rigney died yesterday after a long struggle with amyloidosis (a disease where your body deposits insoluble proteins in its own tissues and organs). Mr. Rigney was better known under a variety of pennames; the one that touched my life the most was Robert Jordan, author of the best-selling ...

Edit: Started NFSMW last November, not April. It's been a long time since I posted on any of my blogs. Between lots of travel in April into May, a lot of work, and starting a new technical book for Sybex -- not to mention still trying to make time (and more often than not failing) to be a good supportive husband and loving, patient father -- ...