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Australia!

Nick — Tue, 07 Jan 2020 04:22:05 +0000

My family and I just returned from holiday in Australia. Traveling so far and being so far out-of-time with our friends and family in the Northern Hemisphere was a dramatic experience and I have no doubt my family will remember for the rest of their lives We were fortunate to have “missed” the terrible fires …

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Back to writing

Nick — Mon, 18 Nov 2019 02:11:17 +0000

After a bit of a hiatus, I’m back to writing my novel, The Harvester, although this time around I have the working title, The Spacetime Gambit. The process is more or less the same. Write a crappy first draft, one chapter at a time. Endlessly massage the pros like I’m kneading dough when I’m stuck …

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Rewrite Planning

Nick — Sun, 20 Oct 2019 02:02:00 +0000

I’ve been doing a lot of “planning” ever since I decided to rewrite my book from scratch. This planning falls into these broad development categories: Characters Themes Plots I also have a large number of “notes” that I take throughout the day, either audio voice notes, written notes, emails, or bits I tell Siri or …

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Smoking pork shoulder

Nick — Wed, 10 Jul 2019 12:17:56 +0000

Today I’m experimenting with smoking a pork shoulder on my gas grill. I’ve been meaning to get a smoker “one of these days” but today I couldn’t wait. So this week I had the idea to try and smoke wood chips on my gas grill. Sure enough, there were plenty of videos on YouTube on …

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Star Wars

Nick — Mon, 24 Feb 2014 04:36:45 +0000

Giovanni and I have been re-watching the Star Wars saga over the past week or two. We are watching the episodes in the “Preferred Order” which is: IV, V, III, VI. We’re skipping I and II since, while gorgeous films, are simply a chore to watch and don’t add much substance. Episodes I and II …

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Long Island Broncos Yearbook

Nick — Tue, 11 Feb 2014 13:00:15 +0000

I just finished the final draft of what was one of the largest projects I’ve ever worked on outside of business. The project was the annual yearbook for the pee-week tackle football league Antonio and Marco have been in for four years, The Long Island Broncos, aka The Seaford Broncos. Why was the project large? …

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Free Bird

Nick — Fri, 07 Feb 2014 06:14:53 +0000

This coming Sunday, Giovanni and his band InfinityÂ² will be performing at K.J. Farrells in Bellmore again. They performed last year as part of Music Emporium’s band program. Last year, Giovanni had been playing for about a year. He’s now two years into guitar and he’s really starting to become comfortable with the instrument. I …

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Lots of basketball

Nick — Thu, 02 Jan 2014 05:35:31 +0000

Antonio has been playing a lot of basketball. His coach entered their C.Y.O. team into a few tournaments and they did really well. They made it to the championship game in the Bayhawk Christmas Classic hosted by St. Dominic but fell toÂ Sacred Heart, a stacked team from North Merrick that didn’t seem to belong in …

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InfinityÂ² – Giovanni and his band rock K.J. Farrells in Bellmore

Nick — Wed, 13 Mar 2013 04:55:52 +0000

Giovanni has been taking guitar lessons since January 2012 so he’s been playing for a little over a year now. He has also been in a band class since November. For this additional hour a week, he and a few other kids his age practice playing songs together. The band who call themselves InfinityÂ²Â played their …

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Science Fair

Nick — Tue, 12 Mar 2013 02:07:43 +0000

This past weekend, we finished up Giovanni and Antonio’s science fair projects. We wound up doing two projects dealing with electricity. We had changed plans a few weeks ago as our original idea was to grow plants. I don’t know what the kids were thinking when they picked those projects. Electricity is so much cooler …

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