Back home after Radcon

by | Feb 15, 2010 | Journal

We drove down for Radcon—were in cellphone communication with OSG, headed in the same direction. I read the front end of the new Bren book to Jane on the way down, and was happy it sounded good. Radcon was, as I understand, a little less organized than...

Announcing a blessed event.

by | Feb 10, 2010 | Journal

I committed computer. Dell has a 300.00 off sale going on, and that brought this one into affordability, a Latitude E5550, which is, I hope, in the ‘reliable workhorse’ category. My own system is wheezing under the load, and its second extension of...

Jane is ex-haust-ed…

by | Feb 9, 2010 | Journal

Up at 2 am and not calling me: seems she found out it was the Condor deadline for getting an ad in the program book, and she sat up half the night putting a new format together, since what we could afford was a half page, and our regular flier isn’t formatted...

Back on the ice and OSG is tossed out in the cold…

by | Feb 8, 2010 | Journal

7:15 am, and we’re up and writing when the phone rings, and lo! OSG has been ousted from the building where she works due to ‘smoke in the premises.’ She asked if she could come sleep on the couch. Yep. She drove over (rather than drive back to her...

Martian Deserts and Venus as a Swamp…

by | Feb 6, 2010 | Journal

Just because 221B Baker Street is fictional and Middle Earth is not on a tourist guide doesn’t make them declasse for adults; and just because Venus isn’t a swamp doesn’t mean sf set in such an imaginary locale doesn’t make a heckuva fun story....

We finally got the last of the Christmas decorations boxed

by | Feb 5, 2010 | Journal

and into the garage. Back on the ice three days running and beginning to get steadier. I think I’m suffering a bit from cedar fever, since my ears are iffy, and so is my balance, but though my brain feared I couldn’t do a 3-turn without tipping over, the...

The post in Bookview Cafe is up.

by | Feb 4, 2010 | Journal

Go to their menu, on the left of the initial page, and look in the Blog Posts item. http://blog.bookviewcafe.com/2010/02/04/words-from-the-wise-cj-cherryh