http://blog.ksaugustin.com The somewhat disconnected ramblings of author KS Augustin Fri, 04 Jul 2008 23:11:50 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en So you already know about J and myself. And our two kids, The Wast and Little Dinosaur. But we have two other well-loved family members, nicknamed Fluff and Squeak. Fluff is a blue-point Ragdoll, a grumpy and morose cat with an unhealthy attachment to J. Despite his lack of any sense ... http://blog.ksaugustin.com/2008/07/05/introducing-two-new-members-of-the-family/ I yearn, bereft of juicy pork bits and parsley. My stomach rumbles. So, I'm on the hunt for a slab of smoked pork and a bunch of parsley, goddammit! It's almost three weeks and no luck. This part of the world doesn't use parsley as a matter of course. Coriander is the ubiquitous ... http://blog.ksaugustin.com/2008/07/02/things-i-miss-and-war-games/ Just a note to any Total-E-Bound customers out there that TEB have revamped their website. Among the many new features is a free reads section. There are two pages of free reads there, which includes a contemporary short story of mine, as well as contributions from Desiree Holt, Sedonia Guillone, ... http://blog.ksaugustin.com/2008/06/26/grab-pouch-of-news/ Chapter Seven should have hit the pixels the day before yesterday and I'm following it up today with Chapter Eight. TW had a nightmare and I couldn't get back to sleep, which explains why the chapter posting is extra early this morning! What happened in Chapter Seven: Koul Grakal-Ski finds leverage ... http://blog.ksaugustin.com/2008/06/25/chapter-eight-of-war-games-now-up/ I know, I was supposed to be back online by Wednesday past, but it just didn't happen. And it's still not happening. At the moment, I'm on a borrowed machine on a borrowed connection, after J had some interesting conversations with the General Manager of a nationwide telecommunications company. He ... http://blog.ksaugustin.com/2008/06/23/nope-not-back-yet/ We're moving! To another country! I'm already stressing and I've done this more times than the average bear. Customs forms, statutory declarations, inventory checklists, insurance brochures. You'd think I'd have everything down pat by now, but every country has its own forms and procedures. Here is one area where the ... http://blog.ksaugustin.com/2008/06/07/blog-on-break/ According to the Australian Broadcasting Corporation, I should have died at the age of 8.9. Here's the proof, in case you were wondering: This is part of a Greenhouse calculator in the children's "Planet Slayer" section of the website. Actually, when I first ran the quiz, I found out I was ... http://blog.ksaugustin.com/2008/06/04/chapter-six-of-war-games-exploding-pigs/ The world news is all about rising food and oil prices around the globe at the moment. Different countries have tackled this problem in different ways. In Indonesia, for example, the price of petrol is rising by 30% but the government will be handing cash to low-income families to temporarily ... http://blog.ksaugustin.com/2008/06/01/let-them-eat-wonton/ THE STORY SO FAR: There is a strong attraction flaring between Cheloi Sie and her driver, Garza Yinalña . But after their first heated kiss, Garza flees, aghast at how she has succumbed to her passion for her superior officer. Besides, it wasn't in her mission plan to find Cheloi ... http://blog.ksaugustin.com/2008/05/29/chapter-five-of-war-games-is-up/ I was waiting on confirmation of this, because there's nothing worse than people ranting on about a dead author when s/he isn't. But it appears that Robert Asprin is dead. Asprin wrote the Myth (comedy fantasy) series of books, as well as the Phule (comedy military space opera, if you can ... http://blog.ksaugustin.com/2008/05/28/aw-hell-robert-asprins-dead/