I put them under the heat lamp. two could not stand on their own and I started giving them water with honey and vitamins. The sugar shot woke them up. The temperature is about 90 in their box, now, and they are cheeping away.

Here is a picture of one.

I would love to own this painting.

Spring Sale Richard Powers Original Surreal Painting “A Break in The Clouds” | eBay.

The Man Responsible For All of Your Favorite Monsters, Ray Harryhausen, 1920-2013 | Tor.com.

1. Log On: Making the wood stove hotter
2. Log Off: Don’t add any more wood
3. Monitor: Keeping an eye on the wood
4. Download: Getting the wood off the truck
5. Megahertz: When you’re not careful getting the firewood
6. Floppy Disk: What you get from trying to carry too much wood
7. Ram: That thing that splits the wood
8. Hard Drive: Getting home in the winter time in the snow
9. Prompt: What the mail isn’t in the winter time
10. Windows: What you shut when it’s cold outside
11. Screen: What you shut when it’s black fly season
12. Byte: What those dang black flies do
13. Chip: Munchies for the TV
14. Microchip: What’s in the bottom of the munchies bag
15. Modem: What you did to the hay fields
16. Keyboard: Where you hang the keys
17. Software: Those dang plastic forks and knives
18. Mouse: What eats the grain in the barn
19. Mainframe: What holds up the barn roof
20. Port: Fancy wine
21. Random Access Memory: When you can’t remember what you paid for the rifle, when your wife asks.

via Making Light: North Country Computing.

We have never brought old Gruff to the vet before. He did not try  to kill anybody, even though he has tried to kill me. In the last few years he has calmed down quite a bit and has become pretty snuggly.

He fights with our cats and marks his territory so he can’t be allowed to wander the house. The wound is stitched and has a drain for the infection so he can’t go outside. We compromise by letting him stay in an old dog cage we bought at garage sale. Needless to say he doesn’t like it and I don’t know how we will handle his bathroom issues.

For now he sits in the box and glares at us. I think, though that he likes being in the living room with the people and the other cats. He is rather handsome.

Bradbury books for the Kindle have only been available from some Russian sites where they were sloppily scanned and full of mistakes. I am looking forward to paying for “Something Wicked This Way Comes”. I owe it to the master.

via Ray Bradbury Classics Finally Coming as eBooks – GalleyCat.

I opened up the bee packages to check them and I put on a second box on all three. The picture shows capped pollen (the tan cells) and the rest is uncapped honey. The bees have to reduce the moisture content of the honey until it is thick and then they cap it. There was capped honey along the top of some of the frames that I could see. The goal here is to have the bees put away enough stores to last through the fall and winter.

These bees are doing all right. I did not do much poking around as I do not want to disturb the bees too much and I did not want to accidentally hurt the queen, so I did not see brood. The bees generally do not work this hard though if they don’t have a queen. The number of bees means to me that new bees are hatching out now.

Tomorrow is another interview.

I have to be careful not to want it too much.

Goodnight Dune.

The new Star Trek Continues Web Series carries on the original 5-year mission. Star Trek Continues begins right where the original left off. To bridge the original series to Star Trek Continues, we have created some vignettes to catch us up on the crew as they begin the 4th year of their 5-year mission. The first full episode begins filming in January 2013.

via Episodes – Star Trek Continues.

It is mid-April. Perforce, whatever terrorist acts we see this time of year are not presumed to be perpetrated by overseas religious fanatics. Oh, sure, our agents and satellites are scurrying about, sniffing in those directions for clues and signs, as well some of them should. Still, I’ll wager that the core of investigative attention is being paid to our home-grown monsters. Angry men whose fixations, hallucinations, grievances and heroes revolve around this week. Tax Day. Waco and Timothy McVeigh’s murderous bombing in Oklahoma City. Hitler’s Birthday. Columbine, the Virginia Tech Massacre. And warped interpretation of the Patriots’ Day anniversary of Lexington and Concord.

If you have a crazy uncle or former roommate who mutters horrid fantasies, keep a special eye open during early April, from now on. In this coming era, our paid protectors will not suffice. As I portray in EXISTENCE, we will all be (in the far truer spirit of 1776) citizen soldiers, using our cell-phone cameras and networks and noses and instincts to help protect America and civilization from lunatics. Whether it is North Koreans smuggling in a dirty bomb or your cousin waging war against his own nation, we will be the front line.

Get used to it.

In the meantime, at least the site works.

All in all, February was bad and March is working out to be just as bad. I stopped pushing the book in my plugins and the purchases just stopped. I just finished my taxes and recorded about $500 in sales for 2012. I don’t expect there to anything like that this year.

I have several books pretty much ready to publish, but it seems a total waste of time.

I subscribe to the feed I have created of Free Kindle Science Fiction Books, and I realize that there are litterally hundreds of thousands of SF books out there. Everyone who has ever written a bad SF book is published on Kindle. I can’t write a book that stands out. I downloaded a few books that looked that they might be good and believe me, they are very very bad. They make your eyes bleed.