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Hullo con-crud, our old friend...
Well, maybe. It may be too soon to tell: but Karen didn't want to come to SETI last night, and we were both awake till half-three, when I finally coughed myself to sleep, and K's having a sick day today and I really didn't want to get out of bed even at cat-breakfast time (but I did it!). That last may just be sleep-dep, but. I am not coughing now, but. I am not doing a whole hugery of anything else either, and I feel kinda logy still despite infusions of caffeine etc. We will see what develops, I guess.
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frumpo came to SETI with me. I do love it, that his work happens to bring him from Newcastle to Sunnyvale every now and then: what are the odds? (Scary thought: I probably know people out there who are able to calculate the odds.) The speaker may have been my first Nobel Prizewinner in the flesh; he may also have been the folksiest and least techy speaker I've seen at SETI. I thought his thesis was more interesting than his talk, but hey. I came away with at least a working title for the current book project. As you know, Bob, I never like writing without a title to write to; it's been troubling me that I was more than two chapters in and had no clue. Now I have a clue. Do we like Broken Symmetry? As a title for a Steampunk!Mars Wimsey-fanfic mystery novel*?
Also I have more or less finished the embiggening of the first Steampunk!Mars short story, as per editorial request. M'wife approves; we will see how editor feels. I still dislike embiggening. The proper study of authorkind is the cut direct.
*For the avoidance of doubt: it's not Wimsey, it's not fanfic, and my agent says it isn't really steampunk. But it's definitely on Mars**. And there's a mystery.
**Not actual Mars.
Well, maybe. It may be too soon to tell: but Karen didn't want to come to SETI last night, and we were both awake till half-three, when I finally coughed myself to sleep, and K's having a sick day today and I really didn't want to get out of bed even at cat-breakfast time (but I did it!). That last may just be sleep-dep, but. I am not coughing now, but. I am not doing a whole hugery of anything else either, and I feel kinda logy still despite infusions of caffeine etc. We will see what develops, I guess.
frumpo came to SETI with me. I do love it, that his work happens to bring him from Newcastle to Sunnyvale every now and then: what are the odds? (Scary thought: I probably know people out there who are able to calculate the odds.) The speaker may have been my first Nobel Prizewinner in the flesh; he may also have been the folksiest and least techy speaker I've seen at SETI. I thought his thesis was more interesting than his talk, but hey. I came away with at least a working title for the current book project. As you know, Bob, I never like writing without a title to write to; it's been troubling me that I was more than two chapters in and had no clue. Now I have a clue. Do we like Broken Symmetry? As a title for a Steampunk!Mars Wimsey-fanfic mystery novel*? Also I have more or less finished the embiggening of the first Steampunk!Mars short story, as per editorial request. M'wife approves; we will see how editor feels. I still dislike embiggening. The proper study of authorkind is the cut direct.
*For the avoidance of doubt: it's not Wimsey, it's not fanfic, and my agent says it isn't really steampunk. But it's definitely on Mars**. And there's a mystery.
**Not actual Mars.