Weekly Word Count

In case you missed the very brief post, the fiction behind Steven is done! Forty-seven chapters, each about the length of a short-short. That made 24 issues, intended to be two years’ worth of comics, in three story arcs. I have yet to type it up, but it will be done soon. And in celebration, I have posted another chapter of Steven’s story on my short fiction page.

What’s next? Well, I wrote a short bit in a back-and-forth series for a White Wolf LARP that I’m in. Moving is nearly complete and unpacking is underway, not to mention OBGYN appointments (I did mention that I’m going to be a father, right?) meetings regarding the web comic, that nagging desire to write the Mayan Steampunk piece, but, rest assured, The Glass Crown is the next focus of my attention. Oh, and I’m not abandoning Adam’s Name, either. If I remember correctly, I’m about a third of the way through the Chicago chapter.

What? Web comic? Did I say web comic? Maaaaaybe. ;)

A note about the Google Group – anybody can post, it’s not just an announcement list. If you’d like to start a new topic, or respond to one in progress, feel free. :) If there’s something of mine you’ve read, or a direction that you’d like to see taken, or a question about a character you enjoy that I didn’t cover, feel free to ask and/or comment and/or post. For instance, I know somebody got emotionally attached to the main character of The Remembrance and cursed me for it. :) “Damn you, Dave!” I know someone else who wanted to lob it through the window long before finishing up the first five chapters. Once she got through that part, she enjoyed herself.

Anyway, I’m always looking for input.

Relevant links:

Steven – http://steven.davidmcrampton.com/
The Remembrance – http://remembrance.davidmcrampton.com/
Short Fiction page – http://www.davidmcrampton.com/fiction.php
Google Group – http://groups.google.com/group/DavidMCrampton

I sense a pattern in syntax.

My groggy day.

A link: To the media: Do your job. Long article, but worth the read.

We’re moved in to the house! Holy cats. We keep finding more little things that need work, and our landlord/repair guy team are being responsive and actually seem happy that we’re relaying this stuff to them. They’re not annoyed that they have to fix things. They seem to -want- to make sure the house is up to par. It seems that they get that fixing things now means less work than having to fix a cascading failure later.

That sounded geekier than intended. In that vein, Ubuntu installs have a habit of being at 33% of whatever they’re doing when I look at them.

Yes, I’m a little sleep deprived, why do you ask?

While , Cassie, and Aidan were napping, and while Hunter and Killian were playing, I sat upstairs in the finished attic and finished up a piece. When I get a chance, I will be typing it and Steven up.

Prepping CentoS for a Xen install now. Man, this post keeps swinging back toward the geek-centric content, doesn’t it? Why am I even a little bit surprised?

Much of my computer stuff has already been moved into the basement, where a wall-mounted workbench and metal shelving unit await their transformation into the SETI@Home for Twilight Computers. I’m not sure if any of the 486 machines survived, or if my oldest down there is a Pentium. In any case once Comcast (some would say, the devil) comes by on Wednesday, I’ll finally have the wired connection I need to sink my teeth into that project. Not that I’ll have the free time to nurture it, but whatever. Debian pretty much runs on its own, once it’s set up.

Maybe some of the cardboard forest will be defeated tomorrow. Wish us luck! :)