Steven E. Wedel

Kim and Jacob both got sick late yesterday. Both were sick most of the night. So I was up taking care of them and stayed home from work today to continue. They’re a bit better, just tired from all the puking. Kim was supposed to go see Billy Idol in concert tonight with her sister.…

In The Prometheus Syndrome the mad scientist tells Josh, the main character who is a guitarist, that music can capture emotion. I’m getting a sweet reminder of just how true that is. Judas Priest’s latest release has had me jonesing from some of the older stuff, so at lunch today I went and bought the remastered…

Since I didn’t walk in graduation at OU in December, I’m technically still a student until the end of this semester. As a student, I can buy the full version of the Sophocles software I’ve been using for a screenplay of Murdered by Human Wolves at half price. That’s sweet. I’m a cheap bastard, I…

I’ve spent much of the morning reading over the comments made by people who read Shara as part of Kelley Armstrong’s online book club. With Scrybe Press planning to re-publish Shara sooner than I expected, I need to get my butt in gear and make whatever corrections I want, and some of the readers at…

Damn, it’s a gorgeous day in Oklahoma. Winter is gone, without ever giving us a significant storm. You can feel in the air that spring has arrived. It’s about 80 degrees F, sunshine, blinding blue sky and today I saw a woman in shorts so short her ass cheeks were showing. Does it get any…

My little Mandy is sick now. Not what I had, what Sara had … vomiting. Poor little baby. She told me throwing up tastes yucky. Nothing I can do but rub her back and wipe her angelic little face. It ain’t easy being a parent sometimes and watching your little girl get sick is one…

One of our students died late last month. Brooke Haley had been fighting ovarian cancer for quite a while and, friends say, she was in a lot of pain at the end. She was 23 years old, a former Miss OCU and third runner up in the Miss Oklahoma Pageant in 2003. Her major was…

Back at work today. But last night Alex began coughing and complaining about his throat being full of snot. He woke up this morning with a sore throat, so it looks like I’ve given him strep. Sara finally got over her stomach issues but stayed home to eat and recover. Kim was complaining about not…

Went to the doc today. Saw a nurse instead. I was right … I have strep throat. Damn, swabbing for a throat culture is p-a-i-n-f-u-l. He gave me a rather weak antibiotic that hasn’t done much for me in the past and recommended I take Sudaphed for the congestion. The Nyquil hasn’t done anything for…

I’m at work today. Probably shouldn’t be. Will go home at noon. Couldn’t sleep again last night. Strange dreams of mundane things. I’d wake up thinking I needed to do some little task around the house. I wouldn’t be here today but I had an appointment this morning and have a couple of little things…