Status Update

AMA #1

The first question for my AMA is from L. Jagi Lamplighter Wright:

You’d think someone who knows me personally would just ask me directly. But whatever. A deal’s a deal.

Then a later comment was

Yikes. I didn’t realize my silence was THAT concerning.

So, first things first. How I’m enjoying Texas.

I finally found spring.

For parts of my youth in New York, I have distinct memories of the spring. They were warm, but not too warm. They were gentle. Occasionally cool. But it was a perfect.

I don’t know when spring in New York stopped being that, but for years, New York spring just got cold. There might have been a week of “spring,” but what we got felt more like we jumped from winter to summer in a matter of days.

I had to come to Texas in order to get spring.

Of course, while everyone wringed their hands about snow this winter, we got nothing. And I mean nothing. We got a thin layer of ice that shut down Dallas for a five days, from the schools to my church, but aside from that, it was nothing at all. We didn’t have to shovel. We didn’t have to salt. We didn’t even leave the house.

So yeah, the weather is perfect. As for summers, we have air conditioning here, which is more than I had in NYC.

Let’s see, my gun collection is doing okay. I’m thinking about pairing it back a little. It has gotten a bit out of hand. But my wife never wants to get rid of any of them. So we’ll see how that goes.

And we’re going to have to hunt down rental shotguns. I figure I’m going to have to get a Mossberg 590, or 590S. The cheap side of me says get a Maverick 88 and be done with it. But I really like the 590 sites, and not the stupid little bead at the front of the gun. The rentals come into play when seeing if my wife wants a semiautomatic. She hates the recoil on a shotgun.

As for how I’m doing “In general.”

I’m doing better than I had been. People might remember this:

Since then, I think I’m back to normal. I had legionaries, and that caused me to expel all my electrolytes. I’ve taken to keeping up with hydration drinks. I finally found one that will go with my diabetes. My walking is better. I rarely have bouts of fatigue anymore.

I’m just annoyed that I lost 25 pounds in water weight while I was sick, and gained it all back. I liked having abs for a while. We won’t go into the bad decisions in clothing I made while I was down at least one pants size. But that’s a challenge I’m tackling for Lent. I’m down to one meal a day. We’ll see if that has any long term effects, or if I’m just screwed to be fat forever.

And yes, I’ve been busy writing a military science fiction novel for Blaine Lee Pardoe’s Land & Sea series. So, that’s a thing. I’ve just finished book two.

I think that’s about all I have for right now.

Again, feel free to ask me anything in the comments. If you get an email, you can ping me through the comment button at the top.

And please, feel free to buy a book, or leave a book review. Either would be greatly appreciated.