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Live without a net...
I've spent the last week grabbing odd moments and watching TV on my computer... nope, not Youtube, not the World Series, just a bunch of folks hanging around and doing a lot of talking, and playing with fancy toys, and mating ... this morning they were mating the P6-P5 interface, which is to say they were attaching one part of the truss to the other while somewhere over my head, and maybe your head too. Live, without a net they are, though I guess they *do* have tethers.
http://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/nasatv/
Speaking of work in progress ... while I'm watching the astronauts at work I'm also assembling things myself -- boxes for a few more double orders of Liaden Universe Companion Number 2.
... yesterday I delivered about 75 orders to the PO and picked up some more boxes and other supplies. Alas, an eBay expert was using the same PO at the same time, so between us we had two of the three windows at the Waterville Post Office jammed for quite some time... and thus, a line out to the door formed while we waited. Thing is that when dealing with the orders is that *each order* must be hand-scanned, address comfirmed, and the labels-they-call-postage applied by hand to each box/shipment. And, yesterday, the computers issuing the labels and stamps was slow as molasses, so we'd have to wait while things hummed and twirred and mrrrped. Also had a helpful PO guy point out that if I used the special boxes that were twice the size of the one I was using I could save as much as $3 in postage on some orders .. and so while he worked I took small boxes and placed them in larger boxes, thus increasing their weight and volume... and decreasing what it would cost to mail them. Wait a minute....
I did get to the chess club last night with mixed results; guess I'm getting over-cautious because I lost what I thought was a won game...on time. Sigh. On the other hand, I may have been still recovering from the effects of a close-call deer encounter on the drive to the chess club -- I guess I came within a meter of a leaping, twisting deer at the edge of the road at dusk. Lucky, the both of us.
Coffee-time, time for breakfast, and then these boxes I've been making while watching NASA TV get filled. Alas... I don't get NASA TV in the living room where all the piles are: got to get that Housenet working....
Later today, a 30 mile round-trip to the Unity PO to stand and deliver. So to speak.
v1.00001 typo fix, photo fixed
I've spent the last week grabbing odd moments and watching TV on my computer... nope, not Youtube, not the World Series, just a bunch of folks hanging around and doing a lot of talking, and playing with fancy toys, and mating ... this morning they were mating the P6-P5 interface, which is to say they were attaching one part of the truss to the other while somewhere over my head, and maybe your head too. Live, without a net they are, though I guess they *do* have tethers.
http://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/nasatv/
Speaking of work in progress ... while I'm watching the astronauts at work I'm also assembling things myself -- boxes for a few more double orders of Liaden Universe Companion Number 2.
... yesterday I delivered about 75 orders to the PO and picked up some more boxes and other supplies. Alas, an eBay expert was using the same PO at the same time, so between us we had two of the three windows at the Waterville Post Office jammed for quite some time... and thus, a line out to the door formed while we waited. Thing is that when dealing with the orders is that *each order* must be hand-scanned, address comfirmed, and the labels-they-call-postage applied by hand to each box/shipment. And, yesterday, the computers issuing the labels and stamps was slow as molasses, so we'd have to wait while things hummed and twirred and mrrrped. Also had a helpful PO guy point out that if I used the special boxes that were twice the size of the one I was using I could save as much as $3 in postage on some orders .. and so while he worked I took small boxes and placed them in larger boxes, thus increasing their weight and volume... and decreasing what it would cost to mail them. Wait a minute....
I did get to the chess club last night with mixed results; guess I'm getting over-cautious because I lost what I thought was a won game...on time. Sigh. On the other hand, I may have been still recovering from the effects of a close-call deer encounter on the drive to the chess club -- I guess I came within a meter of a leaping, twisting deer at the edge of the road at dusk. Lucky, the both of us.
Coffee-time, time for breakfast, and then these boxes I've been making while watching NASA TV get filled. Alas... I don't get NASA TV in the living room where all the piles are: got to get that Housenet working....
Later today, a 30 mile round-trip to the Unity PO to stand and deliver. So to speak.
v1.00001 typo fix, photo fixed
Delivery progress to the PO
(Anonymous) 2007-10-30 05:25 pm (UTC)(link)Can Kinzel put up a bar graph when he posts about how much of the LUC2 had been delivered to the PO. This will give the Liaden readers some idea about when they will get their copy in the mail. Also as a countdown mechanism for when to start donating for further Fledgling volume(s).
A good thing Mr. deer decides not became a hood ornament. One doesn't even want to think further on this matter. Brings back very bad memories of the ground hog death rattle coming back from Ottawa game con on the bottom of my Mustang after it prance in front of another car. Manage to steer the car to avoid squashing the beastie and wiping out. I was attempting to pass at the time, front of the Mustang was only about a meter and a half from the front of the other car. Woke everyone in the car up. Only discover a bloody smear after stopping to inspect for damage later. Then smoke many cigarettes to calm the nerves.
Hope the local wildlife in Maine be less active today.
Re: Delivery progress to the PO
counting today's mailing won't help unless I take the time out to talk about distributions of hardcovers, soft covers, country and etc .. and honestly, I'm not up to that right now. A quick (and one time) count shows I have around 60 books outgoing -- some identical looking packages have two copies and some have one! -- tomorrow morning and I have another 50 signed trade papers ready to go. We need to get some more hardcovers and some trades signed .. .I'm guessing by label sheet count that we have mailed about 50% of the orders. With luck (and if the creek don't rise) most everything will be out of here by November 5.
Re: Delivery progress to the PO
A Subaru I was driving and a very small doe got into an argument one night. The deer lost, but the Subaru didn't survive the encounter either.
I was told that I was lucky the deer struck the car low. Apparently its more common to hit one as it jumps up. That results in the deer rolling across the hood and thru the windshield. To the consequent dismay of the driver.
I understand moose are worse because they tend to come down on the roof. That usually takes the roof down with them.
Maine has a lot of meese, right?