http://playtesting.net From the Company that Brought You Critical Matters and the Echoes of Heaven Fri, 18 Jun 2010 18:05:33 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Still unemployed. My mother had a couple surgeries last week, related to the cancer. They went well, but took a long time. They removed half her thyroid and a tumor. Both turned out to be benign. I'm nearing the end of my edit for the novel I'll ... http://playtesting.net/?p=64 One bit of good news this week. Friday I found out that my old employer has a job opening for a tech support supervisor. I'm not sure if there's any layoff stigma attached to me, but if there isn't, I think I have a pretty good shot at ... http://playtesting.net/?p=63 The job hunt continues. No big news on that front. We've (Howard Tayler, Dan Willis, and I, plus friends and Sandra Tayler) started a writers group that meets on Wednesdays. I've started running the Echoes of Heaven novel through the group. It's nice to have something ... http://playtesting.net/?p=62 My birthday was Tuesday. Monday night I received a call about a job interview, so I scheduled it for Tuesday morning. It was the only birthday present I was expecting on my birthday, so I thought that was a nice little present to myself. I was up ... http://playtesting.net/?p=60 So we're now past the third week of me being laid off. I've received my severance check, but if I get rehired by the same company within 60 days, I have to pay 75% of it back. Since my best lead right now is a job that opened ... http://playtesting.net/?p=59 So, I was laid off last week. Just now getting my head above water and thinking about it. Anyway, this has some implications on anything that requires me laying out cash (paying artists for new art and sound techs, for instance), but I'm hoping to get rehired by ... http://playtesting.net/?p=58 This is my schedule for LTUE this weekend: Thursday 10:00 AM - Fantasy without Magic (Paul Genesse, Brandon Sanderson, Robert J Defendi, Lary Correis, James Brown) 2:00 PM - The Howard and Bob Show. What do you get when you get two prolific writers together on a panel? Come and find out! (Howard Tayer, Robert ... http://playtesting.net/?p=57 My mother had a double mastectomy about two and a half weeks ago. She's recovering nicely and the although they found cancer in a lymph node during the surgery, the pathology came back with no cancer beyond that (this report came last week, and it's the first "good" news ... http://playtesting.net/?p=55 Hi. I was planning on posting an update on status this week. However today I discovered that a lump my mother found in her breast doesn't look good to the doctors. They've drawn the biopsy, but they aren't expecting good news. I might be a little out of ... http://playtesting.net/?p=54 Jake Black is a local comic book writer.  He is a dear man and I love him deeply.  I don't follow his blog (bad me!) so I just discovered that he has cancer.  Our FLGS, Dragon's Keep, is holding a fundraiser to help pay for treatment on Saturday the 12th.  ... http://playtesting.net/?p=53