Steven E. Wedel

Can I get an amen? The air conditioner is back on. That’s the good news. The bad news is we’ll have to drop another wad of cash on the unit before winter. Long, long story with lots of tech stuff I didn’t fully understand. The important thing is, I’m sitting under a vent blowing cold…

I slapped a new thermostat on the wall late last night to see if that would fix the air conditioner. Nuh-uh. Repairman came out today and it told us the blower motor is shot. But wait! The news got better. There ain’t a Lennox dealer in the state what’s got the one we need, so…

How do I know it’s summer? Because the air conditioner decided to quit today. A valve at the heat pump unit outside keeps freezing up. The heat pump runs. The inside unit will kick on and blow cold air for 30-45 seconds, then it quits. We turned it off, let the valve thaw, changed filters…

I took the older kids and a friend to see George A. Romero’s Land of the Dead at the Oklahoma City preview this evening. Incredible movie. I wrote a review that will appear in Friday’s edition of The MidCity Advocate, so I won’t go on and on about it here. But, I’m telling ya, unless…

“It’s Father’s Day, Bedelia. Where’s my cake!” I do love Creepshow. And yes, I realize Father’s Day has been over for about 24 minutes now. So what? I scored a copy of Joseph Campbell’s The Transformation of Myth through Time and Claude Lecouteux’s Witches, Werewolves and Fairies: Shapeshifters and Astral Doubles in the Middle Ages.…

Major revisions of BB are finished. 87,692 / 90,000(97.0%) I’ll look over suggestions from Gayleen and Paul over the next week or so, as they finish reading the book. I already know of a couple of places Gayleen thought I should elaborate. I’m sure I’ll hit that 90,000 mark. Getting that last chapter done was…

I broke the 85,000 word barrier on BB today. So, naturally I upped my goal to 90,000, which will make the book much more marketable. Keep in mind these numbers are for the novel as it stands, which is basically a completed rough draft that I’m beefing up. That said, there are two chapters left…

Who did that song? J. Geils Band? Maybe? I dunno. I didn’t set foot out of the house today. Not even to get the mail; Alex got it. I’ll really go nuts here if I don’t get a job soon. Yeah, yeah, it’s only been a couple of weeks. Ghandi would lose patience over the…

Will I find a job before I go insane? Who knows? For years I’ve toyed with the idea of getting the alternative certification to teach high school. I think this week I’ll drop the $40 registration fee and start that process. Because, ya know, I just ain’t around enough kids here at the house. I…

The little kids just came in. They went to the front yard … and got into the van and closed the door. Scary stuff! It’s about 100 degrees F here today. No harm done, just two red-faced sweaty kids. And now the van is locked again. Call to the Hunt is at No. 7 on…