To paraphrase Mark Twain, "The rumours of my prolonged absence here have been exaggerated." Dearest apologies for the long, long lull away from this nest--on account of what have been four and

Vervavim, biviēntés! (Or in RFM, "I'm back, folks!") In the three months I've been away, renewed commitments towards the Adanson Jukebox have taken up so much of that time, I can't even process

Were it not for the events that transpired this afternoon (Eastern Daylight Time--DST happened a while ago), my next long-in-gestation post (for the Nerday community) would've been dedicated to all raccoon

Originally posted on April 21, 2020, 11:27:00 GMT (per SteemPeak). Finale in the "Lost Five" series; see the intro in post #1 for details. After 27 long days on the job, a supplement to a still

Originally posted on 2020-04-20, 12:30:21 GMT (per SteemPeak). Part of the "Lost Five" series; see the intro in post #1 for details. With @partiko on mothballs at this writing, and the developer(s)

...if only because today's counter is the most mildly interesting it's been since we left G+. (Originally posted on 2020-03-26, 03:27:42 GMT per SteemPeak. Part of the "Lost Five" series; see

Originally posted on 2020-03-25, 03:27:15 GMT (per SteemPeak). Part of the "Lost Five" series; see the intro in post #1 for details. As per usual, I won't go ahead with the following tasks unless

Originally posted on 2020-03-24, 22:00:06 (per Steemit timestamp). Early in 2020, the original Steemit platform was sold to new management (viz. Justin Sun of the TRON blockchain), whose controversial

Joalanovaubrat, biviēntés. (Stands for "Happy New Year, folks" in my conlang of Tovasala, né Relformaide, whose official wiki was swept away in Referata's September 2020 database crash, and whose

...a sneak peek of part of my creative future, XPosted at haste from r/DrawForMe. (As usual, wish I had far more time on my hands, but too many expectations from what I'm about to delve into--and a couple

Below are the first 1300+ words of the new first-draft manuscript of the first volume of Unspooled, a project that began life as Marigot Magic during NaNoWriMo 2012. The forthcoming Unspooled series concerns

Just as the title says, those first 1,000 words of our new manuscript for Unspooled #1 finally came to pass--on Tuesday afternoon, between 11:53 a.m. and 2:48 p.m.--and were e-mailed to my upstate New

Struggled to get this written--first at hive.blog, then @Ecency's draft queue, and then (when the first attempt to save turned out rather impossible) back at Hive; the Ecency app was lagging away while

...enough to bring me back to Ecency/Hive for the time being. (Sorry, no Notebook entry till further notice.) Early on Sunday afternoon, another round of music stockpiling came to a rest, and as usual,

Told you we'd make it--but with just half an hour to write this post, and a ton of music in KLPC's archives to take care of, I really wish it were much, much more. Had things gone better earlier today,

Yes, you saw that right (once again). Last month, entry #409 in the Marigot Notebook set a record for most votes in the Hive era of this Captain's Aground feed. (In case you can't see the image: 345 all

An earlier version of this entry resided in this contributor's @eSteemApp draft queue during the month of July, but inexplicably disappeared by the start of August following the client's interface

It happened that I stayed on the last post's editing pane; a five-minute buffer warning came up as I was about to give it one more tweak; and then--bah!--this had to happen. What I had in mind for the

"'The time has come,' the Walrus said, 'To talk of many things, 'Of shoes and ships and sealing wax...' " --Lewis Carroll And the very hashtag you may be noticing right now, effectively taking

Saloutard, bíentés. There's a reason why I began with this carryover from the Google+ years: Because, starting yesterday morning at 10:57 EDT, I've been invested in reviving the Relformaide Dictionary