Last year, I wrote a review of the Glacier Tek Sports Cool Vest, explaining how much I enjoy it and how I highly recommend it. I actually loved the vest so much, I decided to purchase another vest from Glacier Tek - this time, the Glacier Tek Flex Vest. I must say, I like it even better than the Sports Cool Vest - I gave the Sports Cool Vest a 6 out of 5 stars, and I am giving the Flex Vest a 7 out of 5 stars.
CONvergence 2024: Everyone’s Invited is just around the corner, and I am very much looking forward to it. It will be great to see friends and acquaintances, go to panels and learn/experience things, be on panels and share my knowledge, and all the fun things one can do at a convention! I hope to see you there!
I purchased the Tenga Uni from Smitten Kitten here in Minneapolis; though it is available online, I prefer to make purchases in-person whenever possible. The Tenga Uni is advertised as being a disposable gender-neutral pleasure item.
I rather enjoyed Winning Colors; not quite as much as I did Hunting Party, but more than I did Sporting Chance. I still give it 5 stars - just a lesser 5 stars than I gave Hunting Party.
I had been considering reading Elizabeth Moon for most of my life, but I somehow never got around to reading any until now. I loved the characters and how they were all unique and yet believable, and found the concept of how rich peers would play at being Old Earth nobles and mix “traditional” names with “modern” names.
Hello all!
My apologies for not posting in a while. It is harder than I would like to admit to keep to a regular schedule of any sort, especially when I have to take the bus to work - I spend about 2 hours each day taking the bus, and as I’m already low-energy, I don’t have much energy to do much else.
I was planning on taking part in Inktober, at least to some degree. Where did the time go? October was incredibly busy, suffice to say. But I will still be taking part in NaNoWriMo. In fact, I was planning to post about NaNoWriMo on Wednesday, but the best laid plans…
If you are planning on doing NaNoWriMo (or already started), please be sure to friend me on there! If I can make the time for it, I will also be doing some writing streams on Saturday mornings or early afternoons (not this Saturday, though, as I am out of town). You can find me here: https://nanowrimo.org/participants/justin-grays
Keep on writing!
When a friend told me about the Glacier Tek Sports Cool Vest, I was thrilled. I overheat easily, and with record temperatures on their way again, I needed something to help keep me from overheating. This vest was a blessing, especially this last week.
Well, it’s almost Independence Day Weekend, and that means that it is almost time for CONVergence 2023: All Dressed Up. I am looking forward to it; I haven’t been to CONvergence since 2019, since just before the pandemic. I am eternally grateful to be able to go to CONvergence once again, to see those whom I don’t get to see often, to go to panels and learn/experience things and share my knowledge. It promises to be a grand time.
Hi, folks! Minicon 56 is a week away. This will be my first in-person convention since CONvergence 2019, and first convention since CONvergence 2020. I am looking forward to Minicon - I get to see friends whom I don’t get to spend much time with the rest of the year, I get to go to panels and learn things, and I get to be on panels and share my knowledge and experience on subjects that I find interesting.
Like with my reviews of Sonni de Soto and K.C. Silkwood’s works, my reviews for these short stories are also short; therefore I am grouping three of them together and sharing them all at once. If a story is on Goodreads, I’ll review it almost immediately - you can see my Goodreads reviews here.
I bought Donovan's Door directly from Sonni de Soto - I forgot the decision tree that led me to decide to purchase that exact volume, but that decision tree led me to this collection of short stories. As I am not a kinkster (I am quite vanilla, to be honest), a part of me was uncertain how well I would be able to relate to the characters in the individual stories, while another part of me was wondering if this would stir or awaken anything within me. And while I remain vanilla, I find I am loving these stories and am looking forward to reading more.
I review the first 5 stories:
One Man’s Treasure
Alter Ego
Maybe Because
Ready to Play
Full-Scale Fantasy
I hope you all voted by August 9th for the Primaries; now it is time for the General Election! Do you know what is on your ballot? Do you know how to find out? Did you even remember that there is an election coming up?
Well, there are a lot of elections coming up! Pulling straight from Wikipedia: “During this midterm election year, all 435 seats in the House of Representatives and 35 of the 100 seats in the Senate will be contested. Thirty-nine state and territorial gubernatorial and numerous other state and local elections will also be contested. This will be the first election affected by the redistricting that will follow the 2020 census” (2022 United States elections).
Because my reviews for these short stories were also short, I decided to group them together and share a couple at a time. I’ll be doing this for future reviews of short stories - putting 3 reviews together in the same post.
I give Take Shots 5 stars. That gives the Teammates Series an average rating of 5 stars from me so far.
This book perfectly builds off of On Ice, further exploring the relationships that the teammates have individually and collectively. I said in my review of On Ice that the characters are well-developed, empathetic, and true - this remains true in Take Shots. Each chapter is from the point of view of a different character, which adds to the story by giving us deeper insight into the main character’s interpersonal dynamics.
Last season, I started to take some time to sit down and talk to fellow POC folx in the geek community about our experiences. Now that we’re in season 2, the discussions continue. Today we have a returning special guest - writer and cosplayer, Sonni de Soto (she/her). You can find Sonni with the following links:
Twitter: https://twitter.com/sonni_de
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/sonni_de_soto/
Linktree: https://linktr.ee/sonnidesoto
Content Warning - Mentions or Discussions of:
COVID-19
Eyes
Religion
Spoiler Warning:
The Good Place
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