by Nina | Apr 19, 2021 | Uncategorized
This past weekend I took part in the virtual convention Flights of Foundry. It was put on by The Dream Foundry, and it was the first really, truly international writer’s conference that I’ve take part in. Programming was basically around the clock and...
by Nina | Apr 12, 2021 | Uncategorized
I was on holiday last week and I got into a rut. I woke up around 10 AM, wrote my morning pages and caught up on news and my slacks while partner walked the dog and made breakfast. We watched a movie together before I went off to work my todo-list for the day. That...
by Nina | Apr 5, 2021 | Uncategorized
This past year I’ve started to get lots and lots of scam phone calls. By the time the scammers got around to me, they had already gotten to local news. My partner had also gotten scam calls, so I knew to expect them. I was a bit miffed how they got my phone...
by Nina | Mar 29, 2021 | Uncategorized
I’m taking part in a writer’s convention called Flights of Foundry April 16-18. I’ve got a panel that I’m participating in and another I’m moderating. You can find my schedule here. Programming Because it’s a virtual convention, it...
by Nina | Mar 22, 2021 | Uncategorized
My sewing machine gave up the ghost this past week. Or rather, I gave up on my sewing machine. Before we moved from our previous place, I managed to mess my machine up somehow. Last spring, when I wanted to start sewing again, I had it serviced and it worked fine...
by Nina | Mar 15, 2021 | Uncategorized
I am tired, y’all. I’ve had a few frustrating weeks at work, compounded by a worsening Covid situation in Helsinki and a few other personal setbacks. So it’s not really that much of a surprise is what I’m saying here. I spent this past weekend...
by Nina | Mar 8, 2021 | Uncategorized
I might have mentioned before that I’ve been taking the Revision Season class by Elana K. Arnold. Yesterday was the very day of the class and I can honestly say that it has been one of the best learning experiences of my writing life. One question still niggles at the...
by Nina | Mar 1, 2021 | Uncategorized
It’s the third month of 2021 and boy it’s been a long couple of years. Helsinki is going – and partially already has – back into lockdown. And this time it’s even more restrictive than before. On Friday, I got word that my gym would be...
by Nina | Feb 22, 2021 | Uncategorized
Spam Nation is cybersecurity journalist Brian Krebbs’ journey into the darker parts of the web. While most of us think of email spam as primarily a nuisance, Krebbs lays out all the ways that it’s a much bigger problem than we generally think it is. Before...
by Nina | Feb 15, 2021 | Uncategorized
I have spent pretty much all of last week in pain. Thankfully, not on my wrist, which is a much more worrying kind of pain. No, this pain has been pretty much entirely focused on my lower body. There’s no new injury, just trying to fix a very old one. You see,...
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