Today has been a lovely day. Although Mom had the house mostly decorated for Christmas, I helped put some additional greenery up and made some arrangements. On Christmas Eve we’ll have dinner for thirty-three, which will be delightful. It’s all family extending out to third cousins. Meanwhile, my brother and his children arrived this evening
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Today is my brother’s birthday. You remember Steve, right? He’s the one who commissioned the Elvis Garden Gnome for his girlfriend’s birthday. My brother is a generally good guy, but does have a bit of an evil streak in him. He also is fond of beers and has a deep knowledge of different types and
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09:39 Heading out the door to Raleigh, N.C. for my niece’s graduation party. # 10:21 Picked up 12 bagels for the family. There are only bagel-shaped bread products in Raleigh. # 10:34 The bus driver just stopped and got out to grab coffee and a pastry. He left the bus running. # 12:23 Ran into
At least I think he has. He left for the airport yesterday and then called me. “My flight’s been delayed. To Wednesday.” I uttered an impolite questioning phrase. “No warning, no notice. Just a new itinerary.” Anyway, they got him on a flight for this morning, in theory. Because he was flying out of Newark,
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Steve was going to come visit for Mom’s birthday, but when my folks had to cancel their trip we also rescheduled my brother’s. It looked like this would be a more convenient time. However, when we bought the tickets, we didn’t realize that I would be in tech week for a show (which seems constant
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I just got the final art for Charles Stross’s book, Toast, coming out from Wyrm. I’d already done a preliminary layout using the rough draft of the art, so it was easy to drop the final art in place, make a few tweaks and send it over to Neil. The art is by the talented
That’s right, we don’t yet have internet at the apartment. We get it next Friday, you know, while I’m away at Readercon. Until then, postings will be somewhat sporadic I’m afraid. We spent yesterday cleaning and unpacking. The bedroom is assembled and has no boxes. Yay! Rob has disassembled the stove and is deep cleaning
Today is my little brother’s birthday. Although we had serious sibling rivalry growing up, he’s a swell guy. He just got accepted to Vanderbilt where he will finish his doctorate. I’m not looking forward to calling him Dr. Harrison, but I’m still proud of him. Oh– and he’s driving up to NYC to help us
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The Table of Contents for the Best of Apex 2006 anthology is out. The list is final. The decision has been made. We are publishing the following stories in this year’s Best of Apex 2006 collection. Blood Baby – Jennifer Pelland The Queen of Stars – Bryn Sparks That Old Sandlands Fever – Douglas F.
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I just found out that the Doctor Who anthology I’m in has been officially announced on the Big Finnish website. Doctor Who: Destination Prague is available for pre-orders and will come out in March, 2007. The cover image isn’t up yet, but Steven Savile, editor, says that it should be out any day now. I’ll
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I just saw the news that Lazytown won the BAFTA in the International Children’s category. Woot! INTERNATIONAL FAIRLY ODD PARENTS – Butch Hartman, Gary Conrad (Frederator Studios for Nickelodeon/Nickelodeon UK) HARRY AND HIS BUCKET FULL OF DINOSAURS – Kristine Klohk/Helen Cohen/Graham Ralph (Collingwood O’Hare Entertainment/Silver Fox Films Ltd/CCI Entertainment/Five) LAZY TOWN – Magnús Scheving, Raymond
Today is Steven Savile’s birthday. To celebrate, I am reading his novel Inheritance. So far, it is grim and horrific. Those aren’t normally compliments but are completely appropriate for a vampire novel. He also has managed to get humor in there too, which is astounding in a book with the undead rising all around. I’m
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I was ordering a subscription to the Clarkesworld Magazine chapbooks (which look gorgeous) and the order form asks “Who is your favorite author?” This stopped me dead in my tracks. Favorite. I was just having this conversation with my husband last night about The Sparrow. It is the book that I always recommend when people
While I wish that Rob and I could be home to celebrate with you, I trust that Mom and Steve will be able to help you with your birthday present.
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We climbed part way up Esja today. On the way back down, Steve saw a side path and said, “Why don’t we go back down that way?” “Okay. But you know it’ll hit a point where it goes straight down,” I said. Steve got a wicked grin and said, “Great.” So down we went. At