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Spring, in theory
It's gotten chilly again--40s and 50s during the day, lo 40s at night. At least the daffodils are blooming, and the forsythia. A few tulips are getting ready to open.
This is the one time I miss living in the South--can't beat it for flowering shrubs. Color, color everywhere. Though come to think, Seattle in April was pretty flowery as well. I first visited the place in 2000 when I attended Norwescon, and I was struck by the gorgeous trees and shrubs.
I just want some color, and warmth.
Monday, I took the day off from work and...worked. We hired a junk hauler to clean out the garage, and I stayed home so that I could tell him what to take and what to leave. I wound up boxing and bagging a lot of stuff, and at the end of the day, a garage that had been filled from wall to wall with only a very narrow box-lined path in place to get from one end to the other was about 2/3 empty. Saturday we will once more visit the hardware store for hooks/hangers/whatever it takes to hang up the lawn tools. I also need to assemble some shelving that Dad left. It's supposed to rain that day--it'll be kind of nice to just putter in the garage...and see if I can find the exact place in the roof where an apparent leak has developed.
Home ownership. Yea.
No news on the job search front. I still have three apps outstanding. One job has been reposted though, so they must not have received a resume that really nailed them. Oh well, at least they haven't out and out rejected me yet.
Currently reading THE BLACK BOOK by Ian Rankin. On the TBR pile is Anne Bishop's first, DAUGHTER OF THE BLOOD, of which I've heard many good things. Also Richard Morgan's ALTERED CARBON. I'm leery of across the board raves, but I read the first chapter on B&N and it grabbed me enough to buy the book. I like Chandler and other noir detective writers--I'll see if this book hits me in the same way.
No news on the writing front. Last weekend was spent on the house and yard, but such a dent has been made in the cleaning up that I feel more relaxed than I did last week at this time. Office is much cleaner as well. Hopefully, being surrounded by all this order and neatness will convince brain that it's ok to concentrate on matters of a bookly nature. Nothing would make me feel better than to kick out 5 pages or so of an evening. I don't want to give myself the same sort of goal I do when I'm hitting on all cylinders though, because all I'll do is disappoint myself. Then something inside will turn its face to the wall again and I won't try to write for another few weeks. Lately I've been looking at my books, even reading sections of one or two, and reminding myself that I did actually write the damned things.
This is the one time I miss living in the South--can't beat it for flowering shrubs. Color, color everywhere. Though come to think, Seattle in April was pretty flowery as well. I first visited the place in 2000 when I attended Norwescon, and I was struck by the gorgeous trees and shrubs.
I just want some color, and warmth.
Monday, I took the day off from work and...worked. We hired a junk hauler to clean out the garage, and I stayed home so that I could tell him what to take and what to leave. I wound up boxing and bagging a lot of stuff, and at the end of the day, a garage that had been filled from wall to wall with only a very narrow box-lined path in place to get from one end to the other was about 2/3 empty. Saturday we will once more visit the hardware store for hooks/hangers/whatever it takes to hang up the lawn tools. I also need to assemble some shelving that Dad left. It's supposed to rain that day--it'll be kind of nice to just putter in the garage...and see if I can find the exact place in the roof where an apparent leak has developed.
Home ownership. Yea.
No news on the job search front. I still have three apps outstanding. One job has been reposted though, so they must not have received a resume that really nailed them. Oh well, at least they haven't out and out rejected me yet.
Currently reading THE BLACK BOOK by Ian Rankin. On the TBR pile is Anne Bishop's first, DAUGHTER OF THE BLOOD, of which I've heard many good things. Also Richard Morgan's ALTERED CARBON. I'm leery of across the board raves, but I read the first chapter on B&N and it grabbed me enough to buy the book. I like Chandler and other noir detective writers--I'll see if this book hits me in the same way.
No news on the writing front. Last weekend was spent on the house and yard, but such a dent has been made in the cleaning up that I feel more relaxed than I did last week at this time. Office is much cleaner as well. Hopefully, being surrounded by all this order and neatness will convince brain that it's ok to concentrate on matters of a bookly nature. Nothing would make me feel better than to kick out 5 pages or so of an evening. I don't want to give myself the same sort of goal I do when I'm hitting on all cylinders though, because all I'll do is disappoint myself. Then something inside will turn its face to the wall again and I won't try to write for another few weeks. Lately I've been looking at my books, even reading sections of one or two, and reminding myself that I did actually write the damned things.
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Take care,
Jim
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Glad you've enjoyed the books, and don't mind at all that you've friended me (I've learned more new verbs in the last week...). Be prepared for occasionally boring descriptions of garage and basement cleanouts and the joys of being owned by two dogs with minds of their own, but I do sometimes slip some writing stuff in there as well.
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Reading your "boring descriptions of garage and basement cleanouts and the joys of being owned by two dogs" is a nice change. It is a reminder that people that I consider to be celebrities also have relatively normal lives and concerns.
From the fan perspective, your response has utterly made my day. My inner Fanboy is squealing with delight. "WOW! I got a response from one of my new fav authors! I was just rereading 'Law of Survival' with lunch today. WOW! She didn't mind that I put her on my friends list! COOL!" This is known as the *fanboy happy dance*.
Regards and wishes for a wonderful weekend,
Jim
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Caryn
Spring, in theory--
Be grateful you haven't been hired and then un-hired when the accounting department--or higher-ups--yank the money back from the department! Has happened twice to me in the past 18 months. So choose companies carefully, is my advice. (This also happened to my SO--twice--when a CEO wanted to hire him, and the new COO who came in a month later wanted his friend for the job--sans experience at the job-- AND then MicroSoft pulled not one but two jobs he was flown out to interview for.... )
But the research for the new novel continues in fits and starts--and the work on the new house is in the final chapter for this bank statement.... %^)
(By the way--I LOVE the idea of a religious reason for the end of the book. If Jani is going to take this whole business seriously, these things are just going to have to start popping out of her-- )
You're found, by the way--
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She always did take it seriously. One thing that bothers her is that she can't make herself accept idomeni beliefs--they fly in the face of her remaining humanish sensibility and morality. She needs to learn to adjust and adapt, take what she can from the religions she knows and make something that will work for her and help her shepherd those who she can't (yet) instinctively understand.
It's tricky trying to formulate her solution without having it sound too pat. Jani-as-priest is definitely a WIP.
>You're found, by the way--
I guess so...
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