Cephus' Corner

A Place for my Geeky Side

Unpopular Opinions about Stamps (and coins)

February 26th, 2023

This has been rolling around in my head for a very long time and now and then, it pops up. I suppose I’ve covered some of it in my discussions on stamp NFTs, but two recent things happened and I wanted to talk about it in more detail.

First, a discussion on a stamp forum about the USPS just packing it in because they provide terrible service, which I absolutely agree with, and secondly, I’ve started watching a UK-based coin channel, mostly because I get bored, called Christopher Collects. He’s the YouTube face for a UK coin dealership and in a lot of those videos, they bring up what I have a problem with.

However, we’ll get into both of those things in more detail below. See you there.

Hard Not to Edit!

February 17th, 2023

Today, I finished up another book. It was the third book in the third trilogy of a series that’s going to go fifteen by the end. It came in around 140k, which was completely fair and about as expected. Now, I set it aside to breathe while I start working on a new book, this time, another series where I’m on book four of a thirteen book series.

I decided, perhaps foolishly, to read through the other three books first, just to get myself in the right mindset and I’m having a huge problem!

Where the Bad Advice Comes From

February 16th, 2023

Now I’m not trying to say that the people over at Stamp Show Here Today are wrong, but… yeah, I think they’re wrong. They had an episode a week or so ago (just heard it over the weekend) on bad stamp collecting advice.

Sorry, I think a lot of bad advice is coming from the podcast.

I Hate Writing Out of Sequence!

February 10th, 2023

Right now, I’m kicking myself. I’m getting close to finishing the ninth book in a series that will ultimately be fifteen books long. It’s been going really well, everything is coming along as I’d hoped and, if nothing went wrong, I’d be done by the end of next week, somewhere between 130-135k words.

Yeah, that’s until I entirely screwed the pooch and I have no idea how to fix it!

I really, really, really hate writing out of sequence!