Morning Cup of Coffee

It’s been a long time since I’ve posted a picture of my coffee cup. Well, the long wait is over! It’s Friday, and I’m getting in a few hours of writing. I’m working on my second novel, trying to get all the parts to fit together. It’s about 10,000 words away from first draft. Not […]

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Dirty Coffee Cup and Tagging Test

This image is just a filler for this moblogging post, which is testing out tagging for Movable Type. I’m just trying to see if I can also submit tags using hashtags. If it works, you’ll see a section called Related Entries below it. #MovableType #coffee #web #hacking Update: No tags or tag functionality in this […]

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Coffee and some writing

Got a writer’s night coming up, so I have to write an X-mas horror story. Not a literal horror story, per se, but something that personifies all that’s wrong with the season.

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Death Valley’s Little Brother

A new whisky/espresso bar in Waterloo is opening up, just at King and Bridgeport. Sounds like a refreshing new idea in K-W. Also, they have a jackalope as a mascot. However, they’re a little coy about their hours of operation: We’re open most days about 8 or 9, occasionally as early as 7, but some […]

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Coffee and a Devil’s Star

Reading another Jo Nesbo book (is that ‘Joe’ or ‘Yo’?) and grabbing a cup at Williams on Northfield. I’m all out of order on this series, so I know how the book ends. Still, it’s a page-turner. Some great Norwegian crime fiction here.

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Iron River

Just read T. Jefferson Parker’s book. Says it’s a “Charlie Hood Novel,” but I’m not sure where I am in the series. It was good until about halfway through when the plot veered into the supernatural. Yeah, I came in late in the series. He’s done 16 books before this one.

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