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things happen. Like the dryer dying late Thursday night, with clothes in process. Steve goes off to town and uses the dryer at the Maytag place... arriving just two minutes before the "last call for drying" ...14 miles round trip... isn't life fun?
Friday the repair guy comes late in the day,after we get haircuts early and rush home to meet him. He makes several adjustments, pulls something reminding me of Manny in The Moon is A Harsh Mistress, and goes off -- leaving dryer working fine and replacing nothing, and incidentally doing a very good job of reconnecting the dryer to the outside vent.
Saturday I forget. I think it rained in the morning, then stopped raining. No, I remember. We went to Augusta and signed books at Barnes and Noble. They finally had plenty of Crystal Dragon in stock, and also a bigger supply of Balance of Trade mass market from Ace. And right, they had the new Bruce Springsteen thingie, so now we have that, too.
Sunday, we went for a short drive, and discovered that the new Dunkin Donuts across town also has a Baskins-Robbins attached. I think it's the first BR in town. A beautiful day it is so we consider going out to the balloon festival... but on leaving BR we hear...strange sounds. Sounds like a wheel bearing is screwed up, or maybe that brake hasn't released properly. Drive directly home, do not pass go, do not collect $200. No, wait, since the shopping center was directly enroute, we stopped at Mr. Paperback, where we signed... Balance of Trade paperbacks and also... 2 copies of the Locus bestselling Sword of Orion. Then we went home without Chinese, having spent the splurge money on books, imagine...
Monday we stay home. In Second Life we get confirmation of an "official event"... yes, in the guise of Kit Jimenez and Elan Neruda, we're going to "appear" ...well here's what it says on the event listing:
Fresh from their Guest of Honor appearance at the joint Linux-Science Fiction convention Penguicon 4.0, award-winning authors Sharon Lee and Steve Miller discuss their careers, collaborating as writers, and how the expanding virtual world helped entangle them with the world-wide science fiction community. The program will be held on Sunday, June 4, at 6 pm sl time at the Second Life Library open air theater
For purists, 6 PM SL time is 6 PM Pacific time.
In fact, as the announcement went out elsewhere:
June 4, 6 PM Pacific
Sharon Lee and Steve Miller (Crystal Dragon) will appear online at
the Second Life Library Open Air Theatre on Info Island --
www.secondlife.com (avatar required).
Tuesday, some business in town, and then the car sounding much better, a visit to the post office and then to Animal House. Conveniently across the street is a new grocery store that's bigger than a convenience store but smaller than a Kmart. Hosannah, hosannah-ho...they have scrapple. In stock. I buy two pounds -- it's $1.80 cheaper than the only other place I know to get it in Maine.
That's what's up. sort of, here. How's by you?
things happen. Like the dryer dying late Thursday night, with clothes in process. Steve goes off to town and uses the dryer at the Maytag place... arriving just two minutes before the "last call for drying" ...14 miles round trip... isn't life fun?
Friday the repair guy comes late in the day,after we get haircuts early and rush home to meet him. He makes several adjustments, pulls something reminding me of Manny in The Moon is A Harsh Mistress, and goes off -- leaving dryer working fine and replacing nothing, and incidentally doing a very good job of reconnecting the dryer to the outside vent.
Saturday I forget. I think it rained in the morning, then stopped raining. No, I remember. We went to Augusta and signed books at Barnes and Noble. They finally had plenty of Crystal Dragon in stock, and also a bigger supply of Balance of Trade mass market from Ace. And right, they had the new Bruce Springsteen thingie, so now we have that, too.
Sunday, we went for a short drive, and discovered that the new Dunkin Donuts across town also has a Baskins-Robbins attached. I think it's the first BR in town. A beautiful day it is so we consider going out to the balloon festival... but on leaving BR we hear...strange sounds. Sounds like a wheel bearing is screwed up, or maybe that brake hasn't released properly. Drive directly home, do not pass go, do not collect $200. No, wait, since the shopping center was directly enroute, we stopped at Mr. Paperback, where we signed... Balance of Trade paperbacks and also... 2 copies of the Locus bestselling Sword of Orion. Then we went home without Chinese, having spent the splurge money on books, imagine...
Monday we stay home. In Second Life we get confirmation of an "official event"... yes, in the guise of Kit Jimenez and Elan Neruda, we're going to "appear" ...well here's what it says on the event listing:
Fresh from their Guest of Honor appearance at the joint Linux-Science Fiction convention Penguicon 4.0, award-winning authors Sharon Lee and Steve Miller discuss their careers, collaborating as writers, and how the expanding virtual world helped entangle them with the world-wide science fiction community. The program will be held on Sunday, June 4, at 6 pm sl time at the Second Life Library open air theater
For purists, 6 PM SL time is 6 PM Pacific time.
In fact, as the announcement went out elsewhere:
June 4, 6 PM Pacific
Sharon Lee and Steve Miller (Crystal Dragon) will appear online at
the Second Life Library Open Air Theatre on Info Island --
www.secondlife.com (avatar required).
Tuesday, some business in town, and then the car sounding much better, a visit to the post office and then to Animal House. Conveniently across the street is a new grocery store that's bigger than a convenience store but smaller than a Kmart. Hosannah, hosannah-ho...they have scrapple. In stock. I buy two pounds -- it's $1.80 cheaper than the only other place I know to get it in Maine.
That's what's up. sort of, here. How's by you?
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Bruce 's new one
2006-05-31 13:20 (UTC)Kelly
Temple City, CA
Summer is here...maybe June Gloom isn't so bad.
Re: Bruce 's new one
2006-06-01 00:08 (UTC)Sword of Orion
2006-05-31 16:46 (UTC)Hope to see you on Sunday.
Re: Sword of Orion
2006-06-01 00:02 (UTC)no subject
2006-05-31 22:59 (UTC)When it hasn't been beastly hot I've been gardening outside. I also took a break Sunday to get together with friends and watch the first two episodes of the current (UK) season of Doctor Who (sent to me on DVD by an old acquaintance I reconnected with at Penguicon). They won't be shown in Canada until this fall, and probably next year in the US, so it was cool to get to see them early. I believe he's getting them off the internet (from someone in Scotland) then converting the format.
BTW, until this past week I had NEVER seen Crystal Soldier at my local Borders store. I'm pleased to report that when I was there on Sunday they had one copy each of CS (trade paper) and CD (hardback) as well as a mass market copy of 'I Dare' and no less than 7 copies of the new mass market version of BoT (3 filed before Ursula LeGuin, and 4 after).
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2006-05-31 23:36 (UTC)I have a theory about the split filing. The stockers aren't quite sure whether Lee is right or left, so they split the difference. That way whether it is starboard or lee, there are some.
Or maybe they are trying to give some consideration to the influence of Miller? That's clearly after LeGuin, so some of the books belong there?
Or, of course, there is the ever-popular "put some where they belong, and jamb the rest in anywhere we can find space nearby" approach?
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2006-06-01 00:06 (UTC)I'm pleased that Ace is doign a job of getting Balance of Trade into stores...we know this is so because we've begun getting nice notes from folks who have just discovered us... sigh.
Ursula won't mind, I hope -- bet her shelf stands out.