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Read this before you email me for the first time. Personal mail only. No spam. No mean people. If you can't say something nice, I'm not interested. Recent entries photo essay: a baby great horned owl grows up - 2012-04-08 loyalty card box - 2012-04-07 crane box - 2012-04-06 shiny - 2012-04-05 my amazon reviews for "alex and me" and "a crack in space" - 2012-04-04 INTRO OFFER: Read my new book, The 10 Best Things You Can Do For Your Bird, on your Kindle, PC, or smartphone by purchasing directly from Amazon. It's on the Nook, from Barnes & Noble too, so click right here if you've got a Nook or Nook app. It's specialized information for pet bird owners, so the price can only go up... Drool on my personal collection of stones by clicking right here. By public demand, and after a delay of an embarrassing number of years, I've finally put my notorious essay, Ender and Hitler: Sympathy for the Superman, free on the fabulous internets. A bibliography of my published books and stories. Here's a simple card-counting FAQ to get you up to speed on the basics. Here's the true story of the notorious DD' blackjack team, told for the first time on the fabulous internets. No other team went from a starting investor's bankroll of zero to winning millions of dollars. A Sadean take on Asimov's classic Three Laws of Robotics can be found in Roger Williams' NOW REVIEWED ON SLASHDOT!!! The Metamorphosis of Prime Intellect. Adult readers only please -- explicit sex and violence. For updates on the "Dead Tree Project" and other topics, you may visit the localroger diary. Visit Peachfront's Cookbook, for recipes that are fast, cheap, and good. A work in progress. My Bird Lists -- My Louisiana State Life List, My Yard List and, tah dah, My World Life List. HEY! What happened to the Peachfront Conure Files? My wordpress site now features free peachfront conure coverage, including a brief Intro to Conures previously published in American Cage-Bird Magazine, now free on the web. I offer the best free Peachfront Conure information on the internet. If you have great Peachfront Conure info, stories, or photos to share, contact me so I can publicize your pet, your breeding success, your great photograph, etc. on my site. Thanks.

goals and resolutions quarterly check-up 2012-04-03 - 8:51 a.m. Loud, scary, terrifying storms last night. The power was apparently out for 90 minutes. Peachfront's Note: I actually wrote the rest of this entry on April 1, but I didn't feel particularly like posting on goals and resolutions on April Fool's Day. 2012 Resolutions Exercise 6 days a week for 45 minutes per day. So far, so good, although it has been pretty low impact exercise. I usually go the whole hour. Learn to write in the Kindle format, so that I can reprint my previously published short stories as a collection. Maybe I can also reprint some of my nonfiction to which I still hold the reprint rights. Great progress here, as I've updated, edited, formatted, converted, and published my first ebook for Kindle and Nook. Either find a mirror site for my diaries or start to Kindle-ize my journals so I'll have a back-up. Some progress: I discovered that I can mirror my diary on Wordpress, but the conversion is going to be a PITA. A key skill I need: Learn to drill a hole in rocks. Great progress: Still real shaky but I have drilled four stones. Spend a minimum of 50 hours using a Dremel or flexshaft tool. Not much progress here, as I've spent about an hour, all on the hole-drilling project. Complete three more stone mosaic projects, with at least one project to involve some more advanced techniques such as a soldering a stained agate lampshade or box. Progress: OK, I've made one great project, the owl picture frame, and I have experimented with a glass project that will be a prototype for a more challenging project. Sell or swap 400 pounds of stuff I have too much of. Use the money and supplies generated to improve my stone-cutting art. Decent progress: I have sold or swapped 143 pounds of mostly stone and books. It is actually getting decently difficult to find stuff I need to sell or swap, so I'm making great progress in clearing space and picking up a few extra dollars or stones. Every month, take an action to increase our future financial security. Great progress: In January I fully funded our IRAs with some closed checking accounts and DH's bonus. In February, I did a complete update of our financial profile, including a major paper shred of outdated accounts and useless paper. In March, I verified the accuracy of my credit report, tested the psychic reading venture, completely updated and published my first ebook, and registered for eLance. Also got R. a small free checking account with a debit card that he can use for withdrawing foreign currency. Bonus: The new account is giving him $50 incentive for giving them a try. Whew. back - next All Rights Reserved, Copyright © 2002-2012 by Elaine Radford