The Life and Times of a Navy Husband

I set a calendar reminder for myself. People have been talking about it all week. Sean even woke us up an hour early this morning, and we still blew it.
Mission fail.

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Succubus
Last night I woke up at about 12:30, and I wasn’t wearing any pants. This is curious because I was wearing pants when I went to bed. After that, I did not sleep well. I just kept waking up.
And so this morning when the alarm spun up at ten past six, I actually got up. [...]

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Or, to put it another way, who has time to pay significant attention to the staggering amount of “serious” writing effervescing into the ether from the brains and fingers of Writers?
To put it still another way, who has time to pay all that significant attention and still write?
Because I pay a lot of attention. [...]

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The woman who provides the voice for the GPS on my cellphone is named Noreen. I’m not sure how I know this, I just do. I also know she wears her hair in a beehive and wears eyeglasses with severe 1950s schoolteacher frames. But she’s not a schoolteacher. She used to sit at a steel [...]

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I’ve got a new post at milhusbands.com about our recent car-buying experience.
Then Danielle had to sit down with the business manager and hear her pitch. And, finally, when everything was signed, when I was off playing with Sean, the manager (a great beast of a woman with terrifying hair) told Danielle she also lived in [...]

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The Zenith Angle by Bruce Sterling
My rating: 3 of 5 stars
The Zenith Angle was disappointing. I ignored other reviews that said as much because I’m a fan of Bruce Sterling’s work. Ah, well.
The ingredients of a good Sterling novel are here, but he over-seasoned the dish. Perhaps in an attempt at satire, he essentially [...]

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The Sot-Weed Factor by John Barth
My rating: 5 of 5 stars
This is a virtuoso performance. John Barth is a born storyteller, and The Sot-Weed Factor makes full use of his talents. There are tales within tales, here, and they’re all told with a seductive sense of humor.
The story follows a woefully innocent (you could [...]

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Is Calibre the take-down move I’ve been looking for?
I love my Kindle. I love it, but I want to love it more.
Right now I read the occasional book on my Kindle (although I’m finding myself buying more and more books for it) but primarily I read the New York Times. The one thing I don’t [...]

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Yesterday afternoon, as we drove home from Boston, I was complaining to Danielle that I hadn’t been getting any writing done. I said, I think I need to set aside an hour every day. At least.
We could set the alarm and actually drag our butts out of bed in the morning, she said.
Ah ha. So [...]

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Back at the end of September (!) I posted about my trip to Norfolk to find housing for our February move. I also hinted at another story at the end of the post. I think I’ve teased you long enough.
Sean and I stayed with friends from the old neighborhood while we conducted our search. I [...]

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