A few odds and ends…

I’ve been editing/polishing up CONQUERING PREHISTORIC. I think it’s finished, but I’m waiting on a couple more readers’ feedback before I send it to Severed Press.

Letting the book sit for a couple of weeks and getting some reader feedback is always an immense help. It gives me fresh perspectives and lets me catch things I didn’t notice before… as well as add a few more details in as I think about what I could have done better during this down time.

And just a few odds and ends worth mentioning…

First, we were never allowed toy guns while growing up. It instills bad safety habits and you inevitably break all of Cooper’s Gun Safety Rules. My wife and I kept the ban in our house, yet somehow…. a pair of these nerf pistols showed up yesterday with my 8 year old daughter from Walmart…

So we took some time for a new lesson.

Which is, don’t arm your father with a nerf gun and tell him Cooper’s Safety Rules no longer apply…

I’ve been hunting my children for hours.

They live in fear.

Lesson learned. Now the nerf guns will disappear.

(Also, my daughter shot me in the eye within the first hour. It freaking HURT. Honestly, there were tears. These things really sting, which makes it all the more fun…)

Second, I have a new writing buddy. He’s a Betta and he sits beside me at my desk.

His name is Rittenhouse cause he’s a cool kid and Captain America was taken.

I’ll have to get a picture of him flared up in front of a mirror some time. He’s a stud and available for breeding. I just want pick of the litter.

Third, my daughter has been HUGE into bracelet and necklace making. I’ve managed to avoid the necklaces so far, but today I was rocking three very gaudy… I mean… beautiful… bracelets.

It all started so innocently too with some pony beads. Now its… all sorts of things.

But look, we made our dog one too.

Fourth, if you haven’t watched Fallout yet – you should. I played the games and they were fantastic. And whoever did this TV show did it right. No weird woke garbage, no need to have played the games previously to understand, just cool end of the world/alternate 50’s timeline desolation and violence.

Fifth. There was a gun control debate. Normally not worth mentioning, it’s the same old crap over and over again…. but David Hogg was asked by a communist survivor the following question:

“I am a Chinese immigrant who survived communism, and under Mao, you know, 40 million people were starving to death after he sold communism to them, and 20 million people died, murdered, during his cultural revolution. So my question to you, David, is can you guarantee me, a gun owner, tonight, our government in the U.S., in D.C., will never, never become a tyrannical government?”

His response?

Video below:

Awesome. Just awesome.

Anyways.

It’s 11:30pm and I need sleep.

Tomorrow, we write!