clothes are packed. toiletries are packed. netbook is packed. kitchen is clean. laundry is done. sheets are changed. reservation sheets are printed. passports are packed. stack of books is increasing. camera is packed. shopping list for parents is written. *thinks* arright, well, we have the passports and the reservation stuff, anything beyond that can be replaced. hidey ho! miles to Minas Tirith: 64.6
repeating myself
I once more point people at my environmentalism temper tantrum, mostly because it’s faster than typing it all out again. Triggered this time by – the International Commission for the Conservation of Atlantic Tunas failing to have the balls to do what needs doing, ie, a total ban on tuna fishing for years to come. Yes, I get the impact of that on ordinary fishermen, I am from a fishing community myself, and frankly it’s not Joe Bob with his single boat that’s the problem, it’s huge conglomeration fleets and…
On vacation
Catie is on vacation. If you need to contact her, please leave a message at the tone. *BEEEEEEEEEEEEEEP* TRUTHSEEKER revisions are done and delivered. “Cairn Dancer” revisions are done and delivered. “Perchance to Dream” revisions are not done, but are so minor I won’t count them against my vacation. I am now officially On Vacation until the 7th of December. Yay! Also yay: I got paid yesterday, and am once more extremely grateful for all my readers. In honor of you, Ted and I had a real life Date Night…
Anchorage booksigning FAIL
I have been unable to arrange a book signing in Anchorage. Instead, Ted and I decided that rather than try to make a dozen different meet-up arrangements, we would plonk ourselves down at the Kaladi Brothers coffee shop next to Title Wave Books on Northern Lights Blvd, and hope that people come to us. We’ll be there from about 1:30pm on Tuesday, December 1st up until the point where we decide to go somewhere else to eat dinner. Our movements will be trackable via this blog, Twitter, and Facebook, and…
I am told…
…by a reliable source (twitter) that several of the Walker Papers are at half price at Audible.com. I went and got a flu shot today, because we’ll be spending 30+ hours in a metal tube with dry recycled air over the next few weeks. The nurse said, as they’re inclined to, “This will feel like a sharp pinch.” I dunno. I’ve pretty much always thought it didn’t feel anything like a pinch, but that it feels a lot like somebody sticking a needle into your arm. :) I was beginning…