Absolutely! A pitiful bird urged me to do so this morning. No, really! It landed right by the sliding-glass door and looked in at me starvingly. So I shoveled off a little patch on the back patio and put out a bunch of bird seed and squirrel food.

I should probably refill that finch-feeder hanging from the garage eves, as well.

No school for two more weeks!

I spent hours watching videos of the last Seattle storm, including tons of cars sliding down Denny and one of a guy's commute from Redmond back to somewhere in the Ballard neighborhood. Made me so nostalgic for the old town!

Yeah, I have mixed feelings about the family of feral cats that live beside my garage....

Lots of plans for break:

• Complete the revision of Empire Ship and send it to agent. Finishing up right now!


• Write the first few chapters of my YASF novel. I've completed the plot outline - and also for the next, and the big picture for the third!


• That seems like plenty of writing goals, but also would like to get started on a story that I was invited to write for an anthology.


• Also a nonfiction piece.


• Hope to get started reading books for the Campbell Award, if they arrive soon.


• Make some progress on the hot-rod Newport!


• Prep for classes, including revamping one syllabus and updating the others. Also need to lay out a plan for my Advanced TC courses.


• Oh, and need to start promoting the coming summer CSSF program.

Lotsa stuff planned for Break! So not really "time off" ;-)

Chris

Whoah! Now that's some serious snow, as if you folks need more....

The weather-dudes suggest 3-5" more snow today. I wish they'd plow the streets in this neighborhood!

Yikes! At least we won't have to *fingers crossed* deal with that much precip. On the other hand, how cool would that be?

ba-da-boom, tsch!

Better luck next time! I suspect I'm still on for physical therapy.