The Catmage Chronicles
Andy thought he was going crazy when a talking cat showed up at his front door. He couldn’t have been more wrong.Goldeneyes is a Catmage – a cat with human intelligence and magical abilities. Andy is an eighth grader who is smart, impulsive, and trying to avoid the school bully at all costs. A prophecy threw them together. There’s just one problem: Goldeneyes can’t stand humans.The Catmage world is heading toward war. Goldeneyes and Andy must try to stop the enemy from getting stronger. And they must save a powerful Catmage who’s been kidnapped. For Goldeneyes, it’s personal. That Catmage is her grandmother.Andy and Goldeneyes must try to put aside their differences. If they can’t, the enemy will soon be too powerful to defeat…
Category Archives: Life
Semper Fi
My nephew arrived in boot camp sometime early Tuesday morning. His parents got the “I’m here safe and sound” phone call at 1:20 a.m. I’ll be visiting Parris Island in about three months, watching a group of young men and … Continue reading
Updating
Yes, I finally updated the site. There should be a new theme coming along soon as well. As always, Jay was my go-to guy to help make things happen. We’ve been friends since the beginning of my blogging days, which … Continue reading
Holiday weekend things
Thing 1: There was a fair amount of G. family crossover with Y. family (that would be me) this weekend. Let’s see, Sarah came over for Little Big Planet 2 time, um, twice last week. Then we went shopping on … Continue reading
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Some recovery
Got my new assessment today. My condo dropped another six percent in value. Got my W-4 this week. Yes, I’m earning more, but I’m paying more in total taxes than I grossed during some years of my working career—including just … Continue reading
It was 24 years ago today
Twenty-four years ago, I opened Through the Looking Glass BBS to the world, thus starting my blogging career without knowing that I was a blogger. I would argue that BBSes were early forms of blogging. TTLG featured message boards of … Continue reading
Little Big Planet
So how many of my readers are also Little Big Planet fans? I haven’t quite finished LBP 1, but I already started LBP 2. Sarah comes over for gaming lunches from time to time. Since I lent her my PS3 … Continue reading
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Striking down Obamacare
Ilya Somin of the Volokh Conspiracy has analysis of today’s Federal Court decision ruling Obamacare unconstitutional. Jen Rubin has a biting rundown of the administration’s incompetence. And now, I’m going to finish watching my soap and go to bed. With … Continue reading
Sick day
Yesterday afternoon, I was really hoping that the occasional chill I was feeling was because my former student, Andy, was doing that good a job during his bar mitzvah service. Well, he was doing a good job, but that’s not … Continue reading
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Left behind
(All the lefties are going to freak about the title of this post. ZOMG! She’s one of those rapture freaks!) I left my good microphone in Virginia, and I am in NJ. With a kick-ass script and a crappy mic. … Continue reading
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In response to Tiger mothers
You can’t read this first bullet point without laughing out loud. Leave it to a Jewish mother to show a Tiger mother how it’s done: Here are some of the things that my four children of a Jewish mother were … Continue reading
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When mental illness ruptures civility
The rush of politicians, pundits, and bloggers trying to blame Sarah Palin and “inflammatory” speech for the shooter who killed six and wounded many more while trying to murder Congresswoman Giffords is just plain stupid. Jared Loughner was batshit crazy. … Continue reading
Finding my words again
Those of us who are no longer (sigh) young have all experienced this: You’re in the middle of a sentence, or writing a post, and you get to a word and there is a blank. You had the word while … Continue reading
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Three days left
You’ve got three days left to get your charitable donations on your 2010 income taxes. Now’s a good time to choose your charities and donate your extra money. I put my money where my mouth is and sent out checks … Continue reading
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The Verizon green screen
Now here’s something I’ve never seen before. I turned on my TV and the screen was green. Completely. Panic-stricken, I tried playing something I had recorded on the DVR. Still green. Turned things off and on. Still green. Finally, I … Continue reading
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This is my life…
I was looking around the blog for some posts, and wound up staying up a bit too late last night reading some old posts from the Life category. I don’t seem to write about myself nearly as much as I … Continue reading
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