Two of my favorite people.

At age 22 I read "The Dispossessed" by Ursula Leguin.

I excerpted a chapter from my first book, put it onto a separate doc, and followed the prompts "Spelling and Punctuation" and "Grammar". The result didn't even sound like my characters, or like me.

LOL. Three women baking cookies all day from 9 to 6:30. "The Road of Excess leads to the Palace of Wisdom."—Wm Blake

Black-eyed peas are ready; we have "too many cookies." All set, I guess.

Well, happy new year to those who celebrate it. May yours be productive and enlightening.

I have a story in this anthology.

Yes. Nuns, With Guns.

Since Sam Bond's Garage is closed (at least until the old and new owners close on the deal) I will hold my Friday evening office hours at *Serpent and Sparrow* on Washington St in Eugene. Let's see how that goes...

Usual places today, usual times:

Portal tea from 12:30 til two; World Café from 2:30 til 4;
Sam Bond's Garage until I get bored.

This being Halloween, I'll be costumed.

This being Last Friday Artwalk, I'll be displaying my books. maybe I'll sell some, who knows?

After it comes back from the beta reader(s). All I have to do now is consider their advice, make what changes I think are merited, and then publish. Right.

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Office Hours Today @ Dark Pine Coffee (Eugene OR) 12:30 -2PM.

TODAY is Stanislav Petrov Day. Hoist a glass in memory of the "man who saved the world"

Lotta folks don't know what the Luddites actually stood for. This can help.

The Future Encyclopedia of Luddism A glimpse of an alternative economic and industrial history and future, in which the Luddites were successful in their battle against alienating technology.

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Office hours today: Palace Bakery, Pearl St in Eugene, 12:30 til 2-ish.

Park St Café is closed.seems like for good (or bad). I am at Palace Bakery, on Pearl.

OFFICE Hours Today at Park Street Café, Eugene: 12:30PM til 2-ish.

There will be no office hours on Friday. Back on Monday 8/11 as usual.

@ Dark Pine Coffee, Eugene, til 2-ish.
See ya.

The legislature of the State of Oregon voted a bunch of money for the help of the homeless, I think in 2021. Four years later 90% remains unspent by the bureaucracy. This from Willamette Week, IIRC.

Portal tea at Noon; World Café about 2:30; Sam Bond's Garage @ 4. See ya!

Park Street Café, 12:30 to 2.
Last Office hours til
Wed the 28th

Check your Chat, Bob.

“The ultimate, hidden truth of the world is that it is something that we make, and could just as easily make differently.”
― David Graeber

An Anniversary:

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Office Hours today, as usual: 12:30-2ish at Portal Tea; 2:30-4 at World Café; 4:00 on at Sam Bond's. It's Last Friday Artwalk in the Whit, so I'll have my books with me.

Usual Places today, at the Usual Times.

This is, I think, called propaganda. And it *may* be the solution to Fermi's Paradox.

In the case of humans, 10% are heroes, 10% are villains, and the other 80% can usually be counted on to follow whichever side seems to be winning. So if the villains can convince enough people that they are winning, then they win.