John got up to see us off this morning at the ungodly hour of 5:30. He sent us with some of the corn from last night–I’d realized at dinner last night that it might well be two years since I had fresh corn on the cob. The stuff in Iceland, in addition to being shipped […]
So…now my printer and my scanner won’t talk to my computer. I am annoyed. I have it narrowed down to something (probably) wrong with the BIOS but, lordy, I have no idea how to fix it except a system restore. That would be fine, except that the program that I use to layout Shimmer is
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We got word today that they have decided to hire someone else as Asset Manager. So, Iceland is off the table, officially. We’re both relieved to have a definite answer to something and also disappointed. Rob has sent an email to Daddi telling him to sell the KTM.
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To refresh your memory, while we were in Iceland, Rob bought a motorcycle. Through the vagaries of customs, the thing didn’t actually clear said customs until about four months after we left the country. Lovely. So Rob has a motorcycle in Iceland which we’ve never seen. He’s also been shopping for motorcycle gear, so we’re
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So… I’m looking at the page about importing pets to Iceland, and it also contains “instructions for importation of deep-frozen dog semen to Iceland.” But besides that bit of oddness, it turns out the rules have changed since I last looked. It is now four weeks of isolation, instead of six, and they have a
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Yes, I’m a sucker for folding things. I ordered a folding webcam last week and it arrived today. So much fun. And its resolution is better than my old one. Where’s my old one, you might ask? It’s in the boxes of things that we had shipped from Iceland to NYC and is waiting for
I realized the other day that it quite possibly has been four years since I’ve been in Portland in the spring. I’m basing this on the fact that I have never seen the lilac in our front yard bloom, and we put it in when we put in the new stone wall. The small buds
So, Iceland is back on the table again. Potentially, Rob would be going there on May 1, I would be moving to NYC on the 7th, arriving about the 17th, partially unpacking and then joining him in Iceland for six months. Or not. It’s also possible that we won’t go to Iceland at all. Or
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Apex Science Fiction and Horror Digest has relaunched their online extension. In this issue, we place the spotlight on Mary Robinette Kowal with an interview and her story “Horizontal Rain.” Apex Publications executive editor Jason B. Sizemore steps up to provide relaunch content with his pagan-based dark fantasy piece “Blue Lights.” I’m delighted to be
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I checked the voice mail and we got a call today from our boss in Iceland. All it says is to call him back. We have no idea why. So now we’re obsessing on all the possible things that this call could represent. I checked with one of the other puppeteers and he hadn’t heard
Today Rob and I went to pick our typewriters up from Ace Typewriter* where they had been lovingly cleaned. Oh my goodness, I cannot begin to describe how much better they type than before we took them in. The sound of each machine is different, and the action of the keyboards is great. Our Royal
Yesterday was a stunningly beautiful day; I did yardwork for the first time in ages and it felt great. There was this odd moment when I was working and realized that I was too warm. It took me a minute to make the next logical conclusion, that I could take my jacket off and be
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Yeeeaaah, I know it’s March but the Winter issue will be out before the first day of spring. We just finished final proofing and I’m sending it to the printer tomorrow. Why are we behind this time? First there was the moving back from Iceland thing and now there’s the moving to New York thing.
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My friend, Jodi Eichelberger, is doing a series of podcasts on his website. Listen to the first one,10 Swimming Lessons, to get a taste of what our time in Iceland was like. Nearly all the hot water in Iceland is geothermal and comes right up out of the ground. For this reason, there are several
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We headed down to -e-‘s house for the Oscars. We still haven’t plugged our television in after coming back from Iceland and she was offering homemade chicken soup for Rob’s cold (which is much better) so it seemed a pretty clear choice. There was much hashing of costumes, I mean wardrobe, and a general consensus