If you don’t know what Stockholm Syndrome is, it’s defined as “…when hostages bond with their captors .With this syndrome, hostages may come to sympathize with their captives.” So, yeah. I’m starting to enjoy this. Wednesday and Sundays. Wednesdays are lower body (essentially your legs). Sunday’s are upper. I love leg days because it means the …
As little as possible, right? It’s fair to say it was a year. It felt like at least seven. It was a year that started in January, and god willing, will end at the end of December. Fingers crossed. It was a year that back-burnered murder hornets. They will probably fire their agent. 2021 would …
2020 is the first year I haven’t released at least one book in a decade. Matt’s War, my first, came out in September, 2010. My most recent, The Murder of Jeremy Brookes , came out over a year ago, April, 2019. But 2020 can take a flying fuck at the moon. Bushfires (actual start date, …
I need to preface this post (and consider it an update to the previous post) that there isn’t actual torture involved. At least not in the mind of the person conducting the torture. My son, the literal dungeon master, is well trained for this sort of thing. He plans the sessions based on our current …
It’s been a little while, hasn’t it? Things have conspired against my writing, like the world and the shit state it’s currently in. But it looks like that’s nearing some kind of conclusion (remarkable how low expectations are set when you’ve got COVID-19 *and* a narcissistic man-child with psychopathic tendencies running the country once thought …
I have to take a step back at least twice a day and remind myself that this is global. We (myself, wife, two kids and border collie) live outside of Sydney in a fairly quiet (and lately much quieter) suburb. We have always been a close-knit family, due in large part, I guess, because we …
I’ve been trying to game this out. The immense scope of this pandemic is sometimes hard to fathom. By definition it’s global. But the scope. Damn. It’s everywhere. And the growth, globally, isn’t showing any sign of slowing. We’ve seen the photos in Italy and China and, now, New York, of refrigerated trucks for corpse …
Two weeks into the WFH scheme (the company I work for made it a “strong suggestion” two weeks ago and “mandatory” this past week) and a few things are becoming apparent. Other than the fact we are all going to be well over our goal weights when this is over. Some of my observations surprised …
What an achievement! We passed the 1000 mark of COVID-19 cases a day early. Yay for us. Idiots. And this on a day when we find out a cruise ship allowed 2700 passengers to disembark in Sydney after they found over 300 with flu symptoms. Seven were found (after the 2700 dispersed into the Australian …
[EDIT: Sale is over. Thanks for your participation.] I don’t want this to come across like a money grab, exploiting the covid-19 pandemic for personal gain. And it really isn’t, because I’ll get a paltry $0.35 (or less) per book sold. But I recognise that there may be a couple of months of “stuck at …