Archive for August, 2008

August 31, 2008

Decatur Book Festival

by Josh at 11:50 am

This weekend, the Decatur Book Festival is taking place.  My experience of the festival started yesterday morning at 6:30 when I reported to the volunteer table to help with set up.  My primary task was to help unload cars for exhibitors in the pink zone (the area right in front of the current court house.)  [...]

August 18, 2008

What is rich?

by Josh at 10:17 pm

I was checking out reports today of Rick Warren’s big presidential forum this weekend, when I came across this article on Salon.com.
There was one line in this article that really jumped out at me.  It’s the kind of thing that you really have to write about to truly process.  This is a quote from one [...]

August 17, 2008

The return of pictures

by Josh at 11:54 am

Our digital camera has been broken for a while, so I’ve been unable to post pictures of veggies, pictures of hops, etc.  I noticed, about a month ago, that the viewscreen for our camera had gone completely dead and any pictures that were taken were just solid black.  Susannah did some research and discovered a [...]

August 16, 2008

Rewriting Windchaser

by Josh at 9:12 am

I began rewriting Windchaser on Thursday starting with a new prologue that wasn’t in the original manuscript.  The idea was to have a slightly better hook for the novel, but also to take a story related between two characters later in the story and allow the reader the chance to experience.  I wrote the basic [...]

August 14, 2008

Troubleshooting CPU problems

by Josh at 10:18 am

Yesterday, I tried to log into the site after having been effectively out of internet range for over a week.  I was greeted by a screen from my hosting provider, Bluehost, informing me that I had exceeded my CPU quota and my account had been temporarily suspended.  This is not as big a deal as [...]