Robbert

Best laid plans… Will be shot to hell. Our initial plan was to drive over the border today but that did not happen. Why? ESTA. I need an ESTA record to travel and due to various possible reasons, ESTA has refused authorization. We are speculating it is partly because of some existing proclamations against the […]

Probably not a real curse, I remember this sort of joke way back when I was a kid. But the interesting times thing is that my life is, or more accurately my wife’s life and mine by association, is going to be a bit challenging the next 5-6 years. Late last year Denise decided that

Well I got the first shot. Quite impressed with the setup they had. A lot of personnel but very well organized. I felt they could have had less people and still perform the same task but however they felt was necessary the process was smooth. Mind you I scheduled at the beginning of the day.

Finally got a notice from the government that I can book my appointment for the first jab. Took a while. I was expecting it earlier since my brother had been notified almost 3 weeks ago and he’s not that much older than me. However, I am glad the web site worked. For a second there

It was interesting developing my own Blog software but I have come to realize, my time is better spent elsewhere. Hopefully this time my WP install will not get corrupted or hacked. That was the main reason for abandoning it last time. It was hacked I think, or at least my web host said it

What a pain. Windows update was in some sort of never-ending loop it seemed and eventually the system refused to boot. I’m so glad I have an official USB drive with an official Windows 10 on it because if I didn’t I wouldn’t know what the hell to do to get the machine reinstalled. The

50K Words! WOOOOOOOO… 2 days early too. I thought a few days ago I would be running short. My story back around the 15-day mark was like, shit, where do I go from here, it could pretty much end right now. I got to think of some ways to extend this if I’m going to

Halfway through November means people should be halfway to a 50K word novel. And surprisingly, I passed that mark yesterday. WOOT! I’ve been aiming for 2K words a day instead of just 1667 just so that I have some buffer to play with. Not every day has been reaching that 2K though but I have

I thought, “Why spend money when free should do.” So I tried my hand at setting up LibreOffice Write template for defining a character/location sheet, notes, and manuscript documents. One template to rule them all. Basically setting up paragraph styles for various text elements. Nothing too strenuous for a word processor. My god, LibreOffice is

Right now I’m playing around with software. What to use to write with. There are quite a few choices. Google Doc Microsoft Word LibreOffice Write Microsoft Write YWriter Scrivener Bibisco SmartEdit Writer Notepad++ Zekaric:Word I like Google Doc since it is online and connected to my Google drive so I expect it to be very