My Health and Fitness Plans (Including Successes!) A while back, I bought a BowFlex off some friends who couldn't get what they wanted out of it on CraigsList, and wanted to reclaim some space in their basement.  Originally, I wasn't…

It's been a decade since I released a game of my own. I've done contract gigs since my last game (Flip Panic! for Windows), and my most recent small contract game development project was less than a year ago. It's…

Money was really tight this year. At the same time, it Kat and I's first Hanukkah as a married couple, and I wanted to do something fun with it :-) Fortunately, fun isn't always expensive. So, a few bucks at…

I paused doing the weekly publishing for three books for a while - I had a couple of good reasons for doing it. One of them was monetizing my work. For quite a while I've had a plan, but haven't…

Another year, another Apocalypse, it seems.  People just generally seem to be in a hurry for the world to end.  I've had an interesting fascination with it, too - not the world ending, it will end when it end.  Instead, with…

For the last three or four years you can find me doing a "con" - the Great Plains Renaissance Festival. Now, the reason I do it is simple - I get booth space for free, and in exchange I run…

At the beginning of 2012 I got frustrated with contract work again, and I've remained frustrated pretty much the entire year. And I've got a whole list of reasons why contracting frustrates me: Customers don't bother getting the deliverables to…

OK, I'm way ahead in my writing - IZ is now over 13,000 words long, and Autobiography of a Super-Villain has passed 14,000.  Awesome :-)  A couple of weeks after the first I'll start publishing again:  IZ, Autobiography of a…

OK, it took a week longer to get all the supporting infrastructure up and running, but I finally have the beginnings for all three books online! Muse is mainly a matter of doing the edits that The Editor has indicated…

It's been decided - I'm going to be serializing three brand new books by myself here on MidnightRyder.org.  This should be fun ;-) First off is "Muse."  Book one of three, Muse presents a whole new take on the human…