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One good thing about Covid19, it kept me out of my usual dives for most of last year. Instead, I had a year of writing. Lots and lots of writing. And t…
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Turns out I don’t know my apocalypse from my armageddon. I totally thought it would all be about flesh-eating demons spilling out of the UnderRealms, o…
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Feb 23Comment 27Share
New mateThe arrival a new dog should always be a happy event, but this fine fellow comes to us in bittersweet circumstances. He’s a rescue dog, technica…
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From the Department of Predictable Consequences...… comes the Facebook decision to turn off access to its platform for local news orgs. (And hundreds of innocent bystanders like the weather bure…
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Feb 18Comment 16Share
IKEA for killer robotsI built myself some shelving for the gym today. It’s a three deck garage workshop piece from Bunnings. The manufacturer is a local mob called Pi…
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Feb 16Comment 6Share
Whisky tango foxtrotted.Had a week in Yamba with Jane. It was great. I’m not allowed to tell you how great it was because nobody who knows anything about Yamba wants an…
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Feb 15Comment 6Share
The Stand, 2020.The Stand was the first book I bought with my own money, and the book I have read more often than any other. I’m well over a dozen times through…
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Feb 10Comment 12Share
Road foodA long time ago The Age paid me to fly to Sydney and have dinner at Tetsuya’s. The dinner cost about a grand, the booze about half that again, a…
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Feb 9Comment 16Share
There are some friends you will forgive almost anything. You lend them favourite books you will never see again. You bail them out at three in the morn…
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Feb 4Comment 5Share
Dopamine Jones.So I’m sitting in this cafe. Right now, writing this entry on my phone. Because I’m trying to stay off Twitter and FaceZuck. It’s like jonesing …
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Feb 4Comment 5Share
Ukrainian FelafelLast year I had a request from a Ukrainian company who wanted to translate Felafel and release it upon that long suffering country. It is now ou…
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Feb 3Comment 11Share
Manuscript away!I hit send on the manuscript for The Shattered Skies, the second book in the Cruel Stars series last night. That was a relief. I'd hoped to fini…
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Feb 3Comment 7Share
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