Sun? For how long?

[kinzel]

Sunny this morning, which is good, thought the ground is still too damp for me to go do a tree census. Thanls for those of you who wrote here or in email with tree books suggestions. We decided that, given the current zombie apocalypse, we better just borrow some books from the library, which I have done. More on that later ....

Still calling for rain or chance of showers through Monday night ... May showers bring May mud -- you can count on it.

Yesterday I stayed home, working on Saltation... and in the midst of pouring rain we ended up with truck, truck, truck, including the new monitors for the office, a Smekday something or other book for Sharon, and the replacement router for the office.. which got delivered here as the old address of record -- go figure. At least I was here to keep it dry.

I'll go in for a short while today but may not have time to finagle the new router and all ...

Also yesterday, I got the electronic files of a chapbook project I'm hoping to have out in October. Looks like a busy few weeks coming up.

Saltation - finished rewiring a very difficult section which had to move from here to there in order to make a timing change work. We'll hope. This should have been done last week, and now time presses, alas.

This morning I'm: watering the cats, cooking chicken so we'll have some for the weekend writing extravaganza, looking over the the grocery list for when I come home from work, catching up on some email, printing some orders, finding socks that match, and maybe cutting a tomato so I can have a salad for lunch at work.

The day lily grounds are looking good; the tree that was dying last year is now dead and that means the lily-spot will have full sun. Zoom!

Yes, coffee. had some, will have some more.

Question for the masses: has the H1N1 virus affected your travel plans short term, midterm, or long term?

and just in case you got used to that toobie thing, a rerun:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iRXFIphZLpc

which is the Buzzy Multimedia video including a bit of Michael Shanks reading from Local Custom ...

Comments

[keristor.livejournal.com]

The "swine flu" thing? No, it hasn't affected my plans at all, and I don't expect it to unless some country (like Canada) decides to close its borders when I want to go there. As far as I can see it's another in the series of big scare stories with very little actual basis, several people have pointed out that ordinary flu variants kill many more people every year (as does AIDS), and so far almost everyone outside Mexico who's been told that they have it has said that it seems just like any other flu.

[jhetley.livejournal.com]

We don't have immediate travel plans, and the flu doesn't change that one bit. By the time we make our annual pilgrimage to the In-laws, we'll either be well past the pandemic or Armageddon will have occurred already . . .

Zombie Apocalypse?

[mbarker.livejournal.com]

What evil lurks in the wilds of Maine? Is this why the turkeys are gobbling? Hie thee to a crossroads or maybe flowing water, it's supposed to scare them.

[ariaflame.livejournal.com]

I'm just listening to the Local Custom reading, which I am enjoying muchly. Though Michael doesn't know how to pronounce sidhe, but he's hardly alone in that.

H1N1

[(Anonymous)]

So far, no changes in travel for anyone I've talked to. We are, however, a bit concerned for the Reisterstown's Bloomin' ArtFest next weekend. It would be a bummer if few folks came out and we had all these vendors and musicians lined up. :/

Rain, eh, rain is one thing, pandemics are another,
Lauretta@ConstellationBooks

PS Hope everybody else's festivals are happily busy

[8bitnintendo.livejournal.com]

I'm not changing my travel plans for swine flu, either. But I've only got four flights scheduled through the rest of the year.

[masgramondou.livejournal.com]

Swine flu & travel plans? Since I'm writing this from a hotel in Prague (the Czech one that is) I think that's a "no effect".

I (re)read Carpe Diem on the way and still have some of the book to go....