Pre-emptive Happy December 25th

Posted by Paul Raven @ 24-12-2007 in General

Yup - because I’m all about keeping it non-denominational.

Whatever your plans are - and whatever the day/season/festival means to you - I just hope you have a good time.

Now if you’ll excuse me, there’s an open fire and a half-read book demanding my attention. VCTB will be back to semi-regular business on Friday.

Hasta luego!

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Productivity versus procrastination

Posted by Paul Raven @ 27-12-2006 in General

Now, don’t misunderstand me, I love a bit of time off work. Hell, I’d like a whole lot more of it. But free time brings its own dilemmas, as illustrated below:

Too Much Coffee Man by Shannon Wheeler

(This cartoon ©Shannon Wheeler; click through on image for original location.)

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If you came here for a serious post on science fiction, press ‘one’…

Posted by Paul Raven @ 29-08-2006 in General

OK, so there’s nothing clever or interesting (or even masquerading as clever or interesting) to read here today. What can I say? It’s been a bank holiday weekend here in the UK, and I’ve had other demands on my time that didn’t involve hammering at this keyboard. Normal service will be resumed tomorrow - in the mean time, I’m sure you’ll grant a guy who doesn’t actually make any money from writing having a day off from posting on his blog.

Oh, you won’t? Well, that’s me told off…feel free to call me all the bad words under the sun in the comments. It’s been a while since I attempted to throw an open thread, anyway… ;)

What did you all get up to this weekend, if you weren’t at the WorldCon in LA?

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