The weekend was mostly good. I never get as much done as I wish to (or ought). I was happy to get some research reading in both yesterday morning and this morning. Not massively driven to watch the Mayweather/McGregor fight, I found myself at my sister’s last night and watched it with all present,...
Read more →A week and some ago, I got an email from the UNM Library letting me know that the books I had checked out were due for return. I thought, hey, I think this script deal is a long haul project- might as well see if any of them are available as used books out...
Read more →I got up this morning a bit early to try and get a little more research done before heading into the office. The topic, again, was de Anza-related. I figure if I continue to hit topics around the substantial moments of his life for the next 5 years, the essentials of the story I...
Read more →After helping my dad briefly with some tree-trimming at his house this morning, followed by a Blake’s burrito break, I came home and relaxed for a few and then headed on down to visit the library at UNM today. My main goal was to get access to books in Zimmerman Library, and to also...
Read more →I started the day early this morning to try and get a little more research done on the Anza project. I was in the directory on my computer last night where I store notes from the book I’d been reading on the man, and I had four different documents there where notes from the...
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It is 8:15 PM and tonight there is no baseball on the tube since it is the day after the All Star Game. It is the proverbial All Star Break, which means the baseball addicts cannot watch professional baseball. It’s okay. This evening, the sky over the mountains to the east coalesced into a...
Read more →I regularly experience in my writing process that if, say, I tell myself I want to write a short story, I’ll have a quick clear thought about what it should be. In my head I see a character have an experience, and they are changed. BAM! There it is! The automatic short story is...
Read more →I spent a pretty good chunk of the day today researching a little more into early New Mexico history, and I certainly learned some interesting, but challenging, nuggets about Spain in the New World. It is well known that the main reason for Spain’s presence in the Americas was their quest to find precious...
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