White Friday

[kinzel]

Well, it is a White Friday -- it is snowing and sleeting here, with the ground, roads, and cars covered and a current temp reasonably below freezing, and with threats of accumulations of ice and sleet, and eventual rain and snow turning back to snow.

My participation in sales today will likely be limited to what i can do from here, I think.

If I didn't mention it here, we've had an interesting week, with the Ghost Ship cover coming in from the Framemakers, the on acceptance checks from Ghost Ship arriving, Ghost Ship (are you sensing a theme?) showing up on amazon.com for an August 2 release (so it should be available for us to sign at Reno for WorldCon) ....

Meanwhile, perhaps an overseas nibble, and we must be working on the writing becasue *other story ideas* keep wanting to talk to us, which is exactly what happens when we're getting under way on novel(s) ....

My first job, after making breakfast (I already made the coffee) will be to bring the snow shovels up.

Also, we still haven't solved the non-responsive DVD player -- so tell me what's a reasonable home theatre solution what with Netflix
charging more for plastic and less fro streaming. Let me tell you, I DO NOT want to have to depend on  my cable company for all my entertainment!

Comments

[grassrose.livejournal.com]

The problem is, you have to have an Internet service provider to stream over anything - Wii, XBox, whatever. If Steve's ISP is the cable company, he's still tied to them when he streams content; the hardware just changes.

Alternatively, he might have an ISP who doesn't offer the real broadband speeds needed for good streaming, or who charges too much for them.

[missingvolume.livejournal.com]

All very true. How is your area for aircard service? A nice backup plan and makes for easy internet access on the road. Granted it is a bit to pay every month if you are not always traveling.

[grassrose.livejournal.com]

Our area offers it, but it's kind of slow and expensive. We don't have it. One of our cell phones is on an unlimited (albeit slow at 2.5G) data plan. With good broadband at home, slow data when traveling, and free wireless access at our friends' and family's homes once we arrive, we're covered.

I really do need to sit down and look at all of our connectivity costs and figure out the best use of resources...

[missingvolume.livejournal.com]

For a long time we did enough travel that involved hotels that did not give free wireless and that pushed us to get the wireless card for the business. The real plus was having it to use with the laptop while someone else was driving for hours on end.

[grassrose.livejournal.com]

That WOULD be a plus :o)