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I hope you are enjoying reading the first chapter of Eclipse of Her Heart. It's now available! Links at the bottom.
Shall we continue? If you have missed any of the installments – find them:
Start here.
Then read part II here.
And Part III here.
Nodding, she followed him along the pavement. It weaved in and out of the orange rush, finally taking them through tall green hedges. As soon as they stepped through, Seri's mouth dropped open. The term castle could mean so many things but she never would have expected an actual castle in the middle of this island. And yet there it stood; four stories high, with twelve large windows running along the first three stories. On the fourth, there were no windows at all. She wondered if it was an attic, or servant's quarters.
"Magnificent, isn't it?" Peter mused. "The first time I saw it, I was seven years old and I think the whole summer I played pirates with my brothers and cousins until our parents were sick and tired of us." Between them and the castle, was an expanse of green grass. "Now this we can step on," he grinned, marching across the grass. Laughing, she followed him, gazing at the castle as she did so.
"How large is it?"
"Huge. I will let Jinny fill you in. She loves this place and can give you far more information than I." He waved toward the windowless story. "The library is up there. Takes up the whole damned floor."
"Peter! Serendipity! How wonderful." The soft, joyous American voice brought Seri's attention back to the main entrance of the house where a woman with graying brown hair stood in jeans and a button-down shirt, grinning at them. "I wasn't sure when you would get here." She kissed him lightly on the cheek and waved toward the castle making him laugh but he continued on inside. Once he was gone, she turned back to Seri. "Oh, I am so glad you are here. I have spent so much time collecting the library and not nearly enough time making logical sense of it. It needs your touch, my dear."
The term my dear from anyone else would have seem condescending, but not from Jennifer Markham. She had a natural grace about her that made the term an endearment instead. Placing an arm around Seri's shoulders, she guided her toward the entrance to the castle as she chattered along. "I am sure this is all overwhelming what with all your flights to get here. I set your room up so it is ready for you to take a nap, or at least relax. Marta will unpack for you and once you are ready, I will give you a tour of the place. Well, the inside at least. I will leave it to Geoffrey to give you a tour of the grounds. I wouldn't know a pussywillow from a juniper tree," she sighed.
Laughing, Seri nodded. Rarely did she feel automatically comfortable with people and yet both Peter and Jennifer were such that she already felt as though she knew them. "I am excited to be here. The island…well what I have seen of it so far is beautiful, Mrs. Markham."
Jennifer nodded. "Oh yes. Before we got here, there weren't nearly as many plants. It was the castle and mostly grass or farming. I prefer what Geoffery has done with the place. And please Serendipity, call me Jinny. We do not stand on ceremony here. Even if we do live in a castle."
"And please call me Seri. It is much easier than Serendipity."
"Oooh, and more exotic."
As they stepped into the castle, the warmth and the light of the sun seemed to immediately disappear. As Jennifer closed the door behind them, Seri could feel cool air. It took a few seconds for her eyes to adjust to the low lighting of the foyer, but when they did, she was sure she had been sent back in time. It was everything she would have expected from the entrance to a castle.
Come back tomorrow for more from the 1st chapter of Eclipse of Her Heart, released October 10th.
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Eclipse of Her Heart
Release Date: Oct 10, 2013
Length: Novella
Genre: Paranormal Erotic Romance
Series: The Markham Library, Library Tales
Thrilled to be spending her summer interning at the world's largest erotic library, Serendipity Jones feels it cannot get any better than sun, sand, and the beautiful castle the library is housed in. Within days of her arrival, strange things begin to occur that only she knows of. Erotic sounds come from within the library when nobody else is around, the books won't open, and a strange man seems to be plaguing her steps.
At first annoyed by the imposing taciturn man, she finds herself attracted and quickly falls in love with Joshuan even though he is meant for another. On a quest to find the woman foretold in a prophecy from his world, he is at first annoyed at Seri who keeps getting in his way before coming to enjoy her company and falling in love with her. But their short love affair must come to an end. For the woman foretold will be found as the sun goes silent and the solar eclipse comes quickly.
The Markham Library series is about a private library belonging to the Markham family. Within this library the heroine or hero of each novella/novel finds her or himself thrust into the storyline of one of the novels it contains.
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We had hoped to start our adventure on January 1, 2017. Tornado warnings, torrential rain, and all around crappy weather delayed us. The silver lining is that we got more stuff done inside the tiny house. There are actual pictures and decor on the wall now. Amazing.
But, today. TODAY is the day. I may have sat bolt upright out of bed first thing this morning and said that aloud. This is my favorite day. We started our new life. After socializing with the family on the farm this morning, we began preparing the house for travel. We have a "pre-flight checklist" of sorts that we go through and verbalize to each other so nothing gets left out. All of the normal things like turning the propane off, stabilizing loose objects, securing items in their spots, etc. Some not so "normal" things like emptying the urine in the composting toilet (see future post on that amazing contraption), finding Sheena's phone (constant battle), digging the jack pads up from the mud and the muck after the said ridiculous rainfall, more etc. We put the dogs in the truck. The humans followed. Without any pomp and circumstance, we started down the insane hill to leave my mom's farm. We got to the front gate of their 100+ acres traversed by our awesome Dodge Ram 3500 Dually and fantastic gooseneck tiny house and snapped some photos. We actually christened our Christmas present to each other: a Nikon D3400 camera (side note: I cannot wait to learn how to really photograph on this journey!). And then, we were off.
My heart had to have been racing 150bpm. My entire life was now on a little country road. My love, our dogs, our truck, our house… basically everything I hold dear. Everything I need. Everything I want. But then the anxiety turned to laughter. Crazy, unstoppable giggles. I couldn't stop smiling. Some of that laughter was because of the faces, pointing, and honking of people who had appeared as if they had seen a spaceship. Mostly that unadulterated joy was because of our situation. We have worked so hard to get to this point. Short glimpse into a future post: this is our SECOND tiny house. Our first tiny was, well, abysmal. That's a whole 'nother post though. Anyhow, we have been so grateful for our family, including two engineer dads, for all of their help and support. We're so lucky to have such great people.
We drove to Chattanooga, Tennessee. Then on to our builder's shop in Cleveland, Tennessee. If anyone anywhere ever considers going tiny, call MIKE BEDSOLE. He is the owner of Tiny House Chattanooga. He. Is. Brilliant. He built the shell of our house (i.e. the trailer, frame, sheathing, insulation, guts of the solar, electric, and water catchment system) while being a mentor for us while we built the inside ourselves. I have loved working with Mike. Unfortunately for him, he has been really accessible to us and has had to talk me off the ledge a few times. He does his research, is accountable, and one of the most down-to-earth people I have ever encountered. Today, just to show he really does have angel wings, he let us crash at his shop for the night. So as I write this, we're hanging out in our amazing tiny that Mike made possible. Thanks, man.
I made dinner tonight. We're drinking wine and watching TV via Ross's crazy satellite system (thanks, babe). I don't HAVE to do anything. That's an amazing feeling. Until next time…


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Everyone knows it's going to be hard to send the first child off to preschool, but the third? It should have been a piece of cake to drop her off at her class and head out into my two and half hours of "me" time, but when she got to the classroom door and held out her hand and said, "I'm going to miss you Mommy!", it was all I could do to hold it together until I could get to the car :-( I was so out-of-sorts about the drop-off, and stalking my phone in case the school called me to come get her, that I didn't really enjoy my "me" time at all!
But on a positive note, she had a great first day of preschool! She was excited and couldn't wait to show me what she had worked on when I picked her up.
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So that deserves a form of explanation on my part this week.
This 'blog', I hate that word so let's just call it website, started out as a plan to make shit tonnes of money and leave full time work.
It started out Jan 1, 2014 and it had some success in terms of total numbers and page views and crap like that, but it turned out that we didn't really like doing it all that much. No-one really likes writing click-bait headings like this, just for Page Views.
It was more of a hassle and just another job, trying to keep fresh content happening all the time. Anyway, I did end up leaving my FT gig, more for health reasons surrounding the MS thing than the making it rich thing but regardless I had a planned leave of absence from full time work.
It must've been November 2014 when I packed in working for the man full time, and headed off on my sabbatical with a strong desire to try and forge a way ahead on my own, without going back to working for the man.
The website wasn't the answer. I thought it might be, but it turns out you need to A) work really hard, non stop, cranking out new and interesting content or B) hawk your box like a whore to advertisers to make a website make money.
I wanted to SELL something. I needed to sell something. That's when my sister mentioned something to me about my drawing chops and my love of motorcycles and why I hadn't melded the two together before. And just like that my Daily Bikers store on Etsy was born.
Fresh on sabbatical I started drawing like a man possessed. I needed 10 designs minimum to get started I figured, and that's what I did. And people started buying stuff. I was blown away, so I kept drawing and making stuff out of my drawings and selling em on Etsy.
I opened up shop here, too, but that didn't work cause it turns out that it's mostly woman who buy my art stuff, and they buy them for YOU guys who have subscribed to my website to read my stories, not be inundated with crap about my drawings.
So I turned the shop off, here on the website, thinking, hmm okay I need to keep the two separated. Then I made a TV appearance on a TV Game Show and the host, Andrew O'Keefe mentioned my shop kindly and the traffic went bananas, but there was no shop, so that was a big lost opportunity! HA, I thought to myself. Back to the drawing board.
So I turned the shop back on, and then I had this brain fart and started doing a weekly series of 'Drawing WIPs' where I show the progression of each drawing from outline to finished product. And every week people unsubscribed in droves.
So, learning as I go, I realised that this too, was not the answer for this website either. I put the shop back online though, and selected a couple of key categories to keep a few products here that I thought might appeal to this audience, more-so than birthday cards, fathers days cards and stuff like that.
So I kept all my other stuff and my focus, on Etsy, and it's going fine, thanks for asking. I'm nowhere near making a living out of it, but some pocket money so I can buy stuff for bikes is good. Some of you have even written me, expressing gratitude for the cool cards, gifts and moto related stuff that you received from your other halves.
This makes me very happy, thank you. But I'm thinking, maybe, just maybe you don't need to hear about my artful aspirations as much as you would like to hear about my motorcycle aspirations? Much as it was as when I set out to set the internet on fire with out incredible stories of wit, excitement and humour.
So here we are, I have cleared my conscience and explained my perspective on the 5Ws of Daily Bikers. Now we can all take a huge chill pill and just get on with loving motorcycles.
So guess what? I've bought heaps of new excellent shit lately!
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If you've been following the development of Battlefront 2, you probably know all about the loot boxes and Star Cards. What you might not know is how much has changed regarding how those loot boxes work since the open beta just a few weeks ago.
If you have no clue about anything I just said, I'll fill you in quickly. Originally, Battlefront 2's only way to progress was via obtaining something called "Star Cards". Those cards were only obtainable through loot boxes that you bought with in-game currency. The in-game currency could be bought with real world money… and I think you're starting to see why that's not good.
With Battlefront 2 set to release in less than 3-weeks, it wouldn't be unfair to assume that nothing was going to change from the open beta. To be honest, I thought the same thing. But, we couldn't have been more wrong.
An official release on EA's website states that "The Beta gave us a welcome chance to test all of our systems in action and tune things up for better balance." It then goes on to mention how EA decided to "take another look at how the progression system works" after receiving player feedback from the open beta.
It would seem that after taking another look at the progression system, EA decided that giving out the best, most powerful loot for money wasn't a great idea. Instead, they've opted for a much more balanced approach that makes it near-impossible to buy your way to the top. Which is pretty much the polar opposite of the way it was during the open beta.
- Epic Star Cards no longer drop in loot crates, they're now obtained primarily through crafting. I would imagine some challenges will reward them as well, but that's just speculation.
- You can no longer upgrade cards at will. Upgrading Star Cards now has level requirements, hopefully balancing out the P2W aspect immensely.
- Unlocking new weapons requires you to achieve class-specific milestones. Most gear unlocks will require you to play as that class until you earn the gear for that class – similar to Battlefield, especially the older ones.
In the official release, EA also mentions that "This system, as well as all of the others, will be continually iterated on and improved." So, if something that's been changed doesn't sit well with you, there's a chance it could be changed yet again down the road.
Personally, I like the changes that have been made. They not only cut way back on how P2W Battlefront 2 was turning out to be, but they also level the playing field in a lot of ways. It also shows that EA listened to feedback from the beta, which is almost surprising. I can't think of many times that big changes were made between an open beta and release.
The best part of the whole release is EA's affirmation that "All upcoming weapons, maps, heroes, and vehicles introduced in Star Wars Battlefront II's post-release content will be free so that players can play alongside friends as the world of Star Wars Battlefront II continues to grow." I'm a huge fan of this because the 2015 Battlefront had some pretty sad DLC that we had to pay for. It's nice to see us getting something free for a change!
What are your thoughts? Do these changes sit well with you? Do you like them? Hate them? Let me know in the comments!


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Posthumous Access Debated in Congress: Senate Subcommittee Hears Testimony Following the Recent Publication of Excerpts from the Papers of the Late Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall
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WHEN THE WASHINGTON Post ran a series of articles this spring based on the papers of the late U.S. Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall, it created quite a stir.
The controversy, however, seemed to focus less on the information in the articles -- which documented the seldom--seen inner workings of the Court -- than on when or whether the papers should have been released.
Some argued that the papers should have remained closed until long after Justice Marshall's death -- certainly until justices and cases mentioned were no longer involved with the Court -- and, even then, access should only have been given to "serious researchers," not mere journalists.
The librarian of Congress, however, recently told a U.S. Senate subcommittee hearing that when Justice Marshall bequeathed his papers to the library in October 1991, he stipulated that the papers be made available to the public after his death with no restrictions.
Justice Marshall died Jan. 24, 1993, and, while the first researcher accessed the papers Feb. 2, the Post did not begin its research until May 5, according to James H. Billington, librarian of Congress.
"It is the donor who decides when the collection is to be made accessible and on what conditions," Billington testified, noting that Justice Marshall controlled access to the papers during his lifetime but made the collection "available without restriction" after he died.
In fact, Billington added, Justice Marshall had the opportunity to amend that procedure but did not. Each donor sets the parameters for access to his or her papers.
"My own view as a historian is that judicial papers should be preserved in as complete a fashion as possible," Billington stated. "These collections help us understand the critical role the Court has played in our national life, but they also underscore the characteristically American openness that members of the Court have permitted in the examination of the judicial process."
Billington further urged the Senate Subcommittee on Regulation and Government Information "to consider information in electronic forms and formats."
"Court opinions are now being electronically disseminated across the nation", he testified. "The hard memory disks in the personal computers of Supreme Court justices and their staffs contain information of historical value equal to that of the much-publicized electronic documentation being created by White House staff."
As with this case, archivists often are caught in the middle of these controversies, even though they are acting only at the behest of the donor.
Anne Kenney, president of the Society of American Archivists, explained to the subcommittee that the Library of Congress is currently in an "archivist's nightmare."
While "archivists embrace a position that supports making historical papers accessible with all due speed", they also balance that with the need "to protect and honor the interests of donors, as well as those of their families and third parties that may be adversely affected by the contents of such collections," she stated.
Kenney believes it "would be a grave disservice to Justice Marshall, the Library of Congress and the entire archival profession for the librarian [of Congress] to ignore the will of the donor and reclose the papers or restrict access to them ....
"The problem with the Marshall agreement isn't so much one of language or intent, but of timing: had Justice Marshall died 10 or 20 years from now, these issues would probably be moot," Kenney noted.
While there was mixed opinion about whether Congress should -- or constitutionally could -- mandate regulations governing justices' papers, some who commented were staunchly against it.
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Duchy of Argadia
Samos Island, Hellenic Republic
|Capital city
|Official language(s)
|Official religion(s)
|Roman Catholicism and Eastern Orthodoxy
|Constitutional monarchy
|- Duke
|Aggelos I
|23 June 2016
|Area Claimed
|80 m²
|Ruthenian Mark (RM) (RMK)
|Date format
The Duchy of Argadia is a member state of the Karno-Ruthenian Empire and was formerly under Imvrassian vassalship. It is located in Samos Island, Hellenic Republic. It was founded by Aggelos I, King of Imvrassia as a province of the then Principality of Imvrassia and consists of one house. It was maintained into the Kingdom of Imvrassia until 23 June 2016, when they gained independence from Imvrassia, but remained ruled by the House of Imvrassia.
On 1 July 2016, after weeks of negotiation and strengthening the historic friendship between Imvrassia and Ruthenia, it was decided that the smallest territory and crown land of Imvrassia, the Duchy of Argadia, that became independent from Imvrassia on 23 June 2016 would join the Empire. The status of the Duchy of Argadia was established to be equal to the other member states of the Empire, but strengthened the European side of the micronation, becoming the third state member of Karnia-Ruthenia established on the continent.
Political History
The history of Argadia has so far been based on its accession to Karnia-Ruthenia. The Empire has accorded to Argadia the status of a Duchy.
The Duke
First and current Ruler of Argadia is His Royal Highness Duke Aggelos. Aggelos is member of the House of Imvrassia and so the Crown of Argadia is part of the Imvrassian's Royal Titles.
The executive and legislative power is exercised by the Duke. The current Constitution is that of the Karnia-Ruthenia.
Ideology of State
The political and cultural tradition of Argadia is influenced by that of Imvrassia and also by that of Ruthenia.
See also


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