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My Re-Retirement From DXing POSTED MAY 21, 2026
A long tug-of-war between my DXing hobby and my writing hobby has been turning sharply against DXing the last few years, and now I find myself at a tipping point. I've decided to retire from DXing again. The first retirement came with TV's digital transition but only stuck for four years. I added FM DXing in 2013 so I could continue hunting analog signals, keeping e-skip afloat, but the FCC was aggressively plugging every open FM channel I had (even in a mid-size market like Fort Myers) ...

New Web Hosting Service POSTED APR 9, 2026
After twenty-five years on OLM, the hosting service I used to founded this website in 2001, egrabow.com has moved on to a new host. You shouldn't notice any difference beside faster preformance and fewer hiccups with "https" connections. There's nothing like a security certificate expiring, over and over again, and seeing every browser in the world start flashing DANGER DANGER THIS SITE IS DANGEROUS when the connection is fine but one date in one field is no longer current. Chill out, ...

2026 Upgrades POSTED APR 2, 2026
Work is happening on egrabow.com at the moment. I've upgraded the PHP that most of these pages run on, spending a few hours testing and playing whack-a-mole with the errors that were springing up on my circa-2015 code. This was done in preparation for more changes this week. Though you shouldn't see any error messages right now, there are a couple of newly-broken things I need to fix when I have the time. They're dummied-out for now: The "Random" button in the navigation bar ju...

One Quarter Century Down, Some Number To Go POSTED JAN 1, 2026
EGrabow.com turns 25 years old today. Strange to think about that frantic night of New Years' 2001 being 25 years ago, but it's great to look back and see how far this website has grown since then. I've updated the History Pages and included a section on my future plans. Being in the middle of writing my second novel (yes, still) any huge plans are a long way off but, Lord willing, the future is a spacious place.

This Falling Eden: Progress in 2025 POSTED APR 19, 2025
The first draft of This Falling Tower is complete. This is the biggest milestone short of publication, and after 13(!) years of writing Spilled Ink >> The Day The Rain Came Back >> This Falling Eden >> This Falling Eden, the trilogy, it feels like reaching the end of a marathon. As a trilogy, This Falling Eden is followed by This Falling Sea and This Falling Tower, all of which are now written. An advantage of this is that I know, in detail, where the story elements are goin...

Caffeine Is Back On Sale POSTED NOV 1, 2023
I'm thrilled to announce that my first novel, Caffeine , is back on sale. The new "2180 Edition" includes some goodies like deleted text (because of course I kept those files around) and author commentary. Caffeine is available in paperback through Barnes & Noble's website, and the e-book is available through several bookstores. It's not on Amazon (yet?). I'm excited to have this novel back on sale as work continues on my new novel . The original Creative Commons e-book remains...

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