It’s cold and grey in Brisbane this morning. My alarm just went off, alerting me that it’s time to get up, which would be awesome but for the fact that I have been awake for two and half hours now. There are very few things I miss about having undiagnosed and untreated sleep apnea, but […]
Right. It’s morning and I haven’t yet coffee yet. When that situation arises, you get what you get, know what I’m saying? Being on the internet without coffee seems like an incredibly bad idea, but there it is. No coffee. I am here. Writing this post. Badly. (I have coffee now. It hasn’t helped. I […]
I got nothing today. Well, actually, that’s not true, I got plenty of things on my mind, but a shortage of things that are suitable for sharing with the internet as a whole. So instead, I’m sitting here thinking about the course that I’m writing for work at the moment, which is unlike most courses […]
I am teaching a whole bunch of writing courses in the coming months. This will roughly coincide with a two-month period where I am much more likely to show up at this blog and goof off, rather than talking about writing and publishing, because there is only so much writing and publishing talk I can […]
Things I have done today: Woke up. Listened to Welcome to the Jungle on Youtube. Showered. Breakfast (Porridge) Fucked around on Facebook. Made coffee. Drank coffee. Instagramed a photograph of comic books going into storage. A photo posted by Peter M Ball (@petermball) on Apr 12, 2016 at 2:59pm PDT Answered questions about said photograph […]
I visited my PO Box earlier today and discovered that lo, my author copy of the Flotsam Trilogy hard-cover has arrived. I have just gotten it home and begun coveting like it was the goddamn precious, because this book is so goddamn pretty. I mean, look, here it is, perched seductively on my brag shelf: […]
Last night, I went to an after-hours forward planning meeting at work. I had a sinus headache when I went in that got worse as the evening went along. This is not uncommon: one of the side-effects of CPAP treatment is the occasional night where you throat and nasal passages are…well, insufficiently humidified. Then irritated. […]
I wish I knew what to post about today. I would claim that my brain feels spectacularly empty, but that would be a lie. My brain is brimming with things I could write about, I just lack the confidence of articulating them well within the space I’ve got allotted before I head off to the […]
By the time you read this, I will be on the doorstep of my local computer repair place, anxiously waiting for them to open so I can picking up goddamn laptop. They assure me it is fixed. And only two days outside their initial projections, which is something of a miracle given the way technology […]
I turn thirty-nine today. As is traditional, I am posting the first-thing-I-Do-On-My-Birthday-Ugly-Selfie, because no birthday is complete until my parents ring wondering why in hell I would put such a thing on the internet. This year, we celebrate the new reality of me and sleep: Occasionally, just for the hell of it, I will wake […]
There is a line in Joe R. Lansdale’sĀ novella, Briar Patch Boogie, that took my breath away when I read it. It goes a little something like this: It was still raining and you could hear the drops falling into the water like plums falling off trees. It’s a good line, in isolation. A clear, beautiful […]
Arrived home from Melbourne and discovered that something was very wrong with my laptop. The casing split open; it sparked when I turned it on; the hinges that allowed me to open and close the computer madeĀ ominous noises. All things that probably should have worried me more than it does, but I go through laptops […]
