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Just Shelley

To not have a child

Recovered from the Wayback Machine. In a quiet moment of sharing, Jonathon said the following in a post today: Though I don’t believe in regrets, I have just one: that I don’t have a child. All my closest friends have children and every time they invite me to their homes, I feel a sense of gratitude that […]

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Just Shelley

My first and only hydroplane race

Recovered from the Wayback Machine. At the Ford Service Center waiting on my 5000 mile service and thought I would write a story into my nifty energy efficient wireless weblogging tool, and download to the web later. Chris asked for stories of pain. He is one sick puppy…probably why I like him so much. Well, I never […]

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Writing

The Writing Mystic

Recovered from the Wayback Machine. There’s some form of mystic associated with writing professionally that, in some ways, I don’t understand. It doesn’t exist with, say, web development — there are scores of web page designers and developers who would be appalled at having to do what they do as a hobby, as a job, […]

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Writing

Editing goals

Edited two chapters today, meeting my goal. However, my goal for tomorrow (later today I should say) is four chapters. That little poof you just heard was my head exploding. All I can say is, it was nice knowing you before I fried myself to a burnt little cinder and a tiny bit of leftover ash that […]

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Just Shelley

California business costs

I just had a call from the San Fran tax collector. I didn’t need to pay one tax fee, but I didn’t pay my city business registration fee. So now they’re holding the one check until I send the other. I’m not sure if there’s something else I’m missing, somewhere. Checking my finances, I find […]