Sick. again.

I have had a stupid number of colds this year. I got sick at Pi-Con in August and remained that way pretty much straight through the third week of November. I had a variety of colds previous to that, mostly coinciding with any time I saw my nephews (which is really depressing). I’ve got another one now (coinciding, I’m afraid, with having seen my nephews.) I am very, very tired of having colds. I’m so tired of it I’m even tired of complaining about them, so aside from this one…

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keep me out of the kitchen.

We bought a cute little pork roast to make for dinner. I put it in the oven in a glass pan and roasted it up. After I took it out, I realized I’d completely forgotten to SEASON it. *sigh* The potatoes turned out to be what the Irish call “floury”, and began to dissolve in the boiling water. I had a couple of granny smith apples. I made applesauce with them. I burned it. Each of these things finished at a completely different time, and because the applesauce pan had…

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questions from the peanut gallery

Someone asked if I had any plans to finish CENTENARIAN and when it would be published. Yes, I do plan to finish it sometime (that would be one of the projects I’d *like* to do, but have no idea if I *will* do in 2008). I do not have a publisher for it, nor will I search for one until after the book is done*, because I am not going to commit myself to more than 2 contracted novels a year ever again**. However, when I do write more on…

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one project down…

Ok, Chance #5 is finished. This is good, because it’s the last issue Ardian’s going to be able to draw, due to him having gone off and gotten a real job with the Dabel Brothers. I wanted to be able to finish the storyline with his artwork, so I ended up changing the end of the story (which needed to be changed because the story itself had strayed quite a distance from the synopsis) so it would fit into the last issue. I think it worked out better this way,…

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