Jody Daniel: Blog

Hi all!
I hope you are all well, good, and healthy!

This week was nice and quiet, although I have been a little naughty. A little present from myself to myself. An extender screen for my home office laptop.

Now with the Mouse Without Borders app connecting one mouse, one keyboard to all three laptops and now the extender screen on the main laptop, my home office is starting to look like Ash’s JOC center. LOL!

But then again, in the absence of the ability to prioritize tasks, I can now multi-task to my heart's content without losing focus.

I better clean up my desk from all the clutter. LOL!

Here is Chapter 25 of “Let the River Run.” Enjoy!

Bye for now!
Jody.
(2026-07-13 07:17 SAST)

Hi all!
Well the new project is well underway and it has now got a title. Chapter 2 just went out to the editors. Chapter 1 came back and the editors think the new story will fly. So, let us hope you like it too. LOL!!! I am Starting chapter 3 as I am writing this blog entry.

Otherwise, things are getting interesting around here. We had the first frost of the season and there are a few surprises, like the wildflowers in the Namakqualand region of Namibia and South Africa, along the West Coast, has started to bloom. Way to early. It usually blooms during the end of August and beginning of September. This year it started very, very early.

I am standing corrected, but I have learned that these veld flowers sit dormant until the temperature rise before they germinate and flower. Some of us that do plant these seeds for our gardens here in Gauteng usually place the seeds in the fridge until September rolls around, then plant them, and the rising temperature wakes them up.

There is something very wrong about the wildflowers blooming during winter in their natural habited around the West Coast! Global warming?

Here is Chapter 24 of “Let the River Run.” Enjoy!

Bye for now!
Jody.
(2026-07-06, 08:24 SAST.)

Hi all!
I eventually got all together for my next project and do hope you will like it. Between getting “Let the River Run” chapters ready for publication and working on the new project, time is flying by.

BUT I don’t have a title for the new project yet. LOL! Maybe I must call it “The next Project,” or “Project Mystery.” I hope my Editors will come up with something good.

Here is Chapter 23 of “Let the River Run.” Enjoy!

Bye for now!
Jody.
(2026-06-29, 07:10 SAST.)

Hi all!
So, yesterday was June 21. Winter Solstice. The shortest day and longest night. Well, the coldest part of winter is still up ahead. But like I told the cats: just hang in there! Only two and a half months to go...

And you know what? That longest night of the year didn’t last that long...

Here is Chapter 22 of “Let the River Run.” Enjoy!

Bye for now!
Jody.
(2026-06-22, 07:04 SAST.)

Hi all!
I just got all three of my laptops “connected” so that I can use one mouse and one keyboard to control them all. Man, this is multifunctional multitasking like nothing else! It’s funny to edit a chapter on one laptop, while the middle one is rendering a picture for the chapter in DAZ, and email and internet are running on laptop three on the right.

I just slide my mouse from one screen to the other and work as if it's all one machine. No more carting files from one LT to the other with thumb drives and external drives! Just drag-and-drop or copy-and-paste. FUN, FUN, FUN!!!!

Oh, the wonder of technology... Okay, okay, for some of you this is old tech. But to me, it just made my life much smoother!

Here is Chapter 21 of “Let the River Run.” Enjoy!

Bye for now!

Jody.
(2026-06-15, 07:40 SAST.)