Notes from the Edge

A race on the Sentul track. I believe Horvath sent this to me to add cars to. I built the formular/open cockpit car and then imported the track into Sandbox and added the modules to make a race... #RadSandbox #dellsweet #GameBuilding #3dmodels #3dmodeling #directx Rad Sandbox is a Retro game builder. Get it from Writerz.net : https://writerz.net/public/downloads/game-maker/

 Notes from the Edge - 03-30-2024 Happy Saturday! Fred: If you read by blogs, you know my cat Fred turned out not to be a Fred at all. About the time she discovered the neighborhood tomcat I should have known, but I thought they were just friends. You know, two toms. But, no, she's about as pregnant as a cat can get, almost as wide as long. And, I said that last week and she just keeps getting bigger. It's sort of like the little flat popcorn bag in the Microwave. Pop ...   pop   ..   pop .pop pop Pop POP! And I can't believe how big she is. So, I placed her on Maternity leave. I expect a litter of Puppies. Yes Puppies, she's certainly big enough and I'm not a cat person anyway. Which brings me to pets... I have this constant Cat / Dog thing. I think of Cats as Female and Dogs as Males. I thought that was common. A no brainer. But I mentioned it the other day and somebody looked at me like I was crazy. So, I guess not everybody looks at it the same... Or that gu

Building a physics setup to use for a Stadium truck and then testing it out... #StadiumTruck #RadSandbox #GameBuilds #dellsweet #physics

Alabama Island Episode 09 the newest episode of America the Dead: Alabama Island is now available for you. Free audio Podcast! https://youtu.be/DywnLe5jAgg #ApocalypticFiction #freebies #horrorjunkie #ZombieFiction #GeoDell #alnorton #podcastshow

 Guitar Books Custom hard body build Kindle Edition Do you want to build your own hard body electric guitar? Well, so did I and so. I did. I used wood from some… #WoodWorking #CustomGuitarBuild #BuiidAGuitar #Luthier #Kindle   https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0CQFMRRMD

 Notes from the Edge 03-26-24 Thought Bites About This Blog This is a medium to post book excerpts and my own thoughts.     You may download Open-Source software completely free of any license fees. Install it on as many PCs as you like. Use it for any purpose - private, educational, government and public administration, commercial... Pass on copies free of charge to family, friends, students, employees, etc. Anything I have listed here is software I use myself and have checked out for, in some cases, years. The links are to the official websites only. Once there follow the links to get what you need. There are no charges, no fees ever. OpenOffice is a suite of tools that equals MS Office. I use it for writing, and I have written more than ten books with it.   ·           Writer a word processor you can use for anything from writing a quick letter to producing an entire book. ·           Calc a powerful spreadsheet with all the tools you need to calculate, analyze, and present your dat

 Notes from the Edge 03-25-24 Here are some suggested short story collections I and other writers have written, Dell Alabama Island Short Story Collection A collection of 12 short stories, including the featured story, Alabama Island. I heard the soft murmur of its engine running: Some guy and some girl, I thought. #ShortStories #Thrillers #Readers #BookLovers #Drama https://www.smashwords.com/books/view/809312

 Notes from the Edge 03-24-24 I am hanging out watching a murder mystery series on YouTube with my wife (The small town with A BIG Missing Persons Problem....). It is pretty good and thought provoking. We get into these YouTube things sometimes or binging series on Netflix (Just killed Orange is the new Black which I had seen, and she had not seen). And we have over seventy channels between the two of us that we follow. In the morning, I click to YouTube, and we watch what there is as we work. Today there was nothing, so we choose the crime special from among the possessions. So, the storm is over? I hope? We'll see but Ryan Hall Yall says more is on the way. Cold here near the Canadian border, but it's always cold here. I thought I would leave a freer story that is so close to my real life that I published it as a true story with just a few names changed. I hope you enjoy reading it. I sometimes think back to growing up there and wax nostalgic, of course nothing is as it was.

Notes from the Edge 03-22-24 Well fancy meeting you here. Are you stuck in the Blizzard of 2022 like I am. I think I was being a bit of a smart-ass last Monday when they announced this coming snowstorm. They always exaggerate the possibilities; it seems but this time they nailed it. It swept in Wednesday, right on cue for the Northeastern seaboard and began piling up. It is now Friday and still snowing like crazy. The porch door. The front door. The side porch, drifted in. The van, buried. The side yard, also buried... The woods behind the house and the shed buried. There is about 5 feet of snow on the level, except the mouth of the driveway which is at least seven feet high and growing now that the plows are running again. But I got up early to shovel (Until I realized the snow was not yet done) and I made coffee, so we will be fine, or at the very least caffeinated :) I hope all of you are safe, warm and have a coffee/cocoa maker, tea, something that dispens

Started this a few weeks back when I couldn't sleep. I finished it up yesterday and today and added it Rad Sandbox today as a monster car. I might do a smooth version as a muscle car too. Enjoy and check out the other models at https://www.writerz.net/downloads #3d #dellsweet #3dmodels #gamebuild #directx

This was done in my own studio with a fuzz FX. I re-worked the song a few years later and did an acoustic version of it. I'll post that next week. This song is about my life, how I lived it, Drug abuse, suicidal thoughts, all of which is behind me, so, I would urge you to continue onward look for your reasons to be in this world. Surround yourself with positive people. #Music #DellSweet #Selfpenned #BMI #FrequentWalker

Episode 8 of America the Dead: Alabama Island #apocalypticfiction #horrorstory #AmericaTheDead #podcast #ALNorton #dellsweet Dell & Amber Smith

Notes from the Edge - 03-20-24 YouTubers I have my own YouTube channel, but aside from some modeling builds, book videos and some of my own music there isn’t much there. It seems to me a few years ago I looked at YouTube, and although it was great for a few minutes of distraction it didn’t really appeal to me that much. Then my writer friend recommended it as a place to find all kinds of content, do-it-yourself videos, off-grid, boat sailing, and marble collectors: Really anything you want. Do you like bald-headed three-legged dogs? I haven’t searched but I am sure they are there. Still, I went, used nearly no imagination because I truly didn’t believe I would find much and so I didn’t. Then I purchased an MXQ Pro Quad Android Box. 8 gig Android 7.1. I still have that. I purchased it to replace my old Roku. Totally different than Roku, but the YouTube app fascinated me; it came preloaded with some channels and within just a few days I was a YouTube junky. I had a few subscr