Mood:
happyI've been away from this site far too long.
A lot has transpired since I last wrote here. I stopped trying to write my books the hard way: in HTML on a Linux machine, moving first to Power Writer on a Windows machine and recently to Scrivener on a Mac Mini. I've set aside my two novels, Chosen and Healer, which take place over a period of six billion years, to write a shorter novel, Sam, which will take place over just a couple of years. The first books were just too difficult.
My health has deteriorated. I now wear an insulin pump for my diabetes. What the doctors were treating as a possible kidney problem has turned into severe arthritis of the spine that severely limits my ability to walk or even to stand comfortably for more than a few minutes, a disability that earned me a handicap placard and license plate.
I still write Weblogs (I dislike the word Blog and its derivatives), mostly LiveJournal; there are links to most of my Weblogs on my site Am0.us. I even have one Weblog dedicated to writing. I was annoyed at the lack of programs to facilitate writing to a variety of systems (Xanga, LiveJournal, Blogger, WordPress and even Lycos/Tripod). I had been using a Windows program that would send my submissions to about three machines I use often. Then the nice people at Mozilla developed a social browser called Flock which allows me to prepare material for a variety of Weblog machines. Flock has become my preferred browser as well as the composition machine for many of my Weblogs.
It has been more than four years. Who knew then that we'd see a woman and a nominally black man both running for president? Who knew than that our president would become the Terrorist President by declaring war on two basically innocent countries rich in petroleum as a tool to attack our civil liberties? Who knew then that a search engine company would contribute to the fall of the world's richest man to third place? Yes, the world has changed considerably in that short period. I'm sure nobody has missed me here or even noticed my absense.
I'm back.
