Saturday was my second and final day at Readercon, and it was just as good as the first day. I attended several session today, including a fascinating one on rewrites and revisions. The panel included (among others) Michael Swanwick and James Patrick Kelly. I attended a couple of readings as well. The first reading was…
Readercon has reminded me that I am a writer and that writers write. A few days ago, I did some work on a story that I’ve been playing around with, a kind of future history that begins in the very near future and progresses farther and farther down the line. I did about 1,000 words,…
I was up at around 5:30 AM in order to catch a flight to Boston for Readercon. For all of my non-sf friends, Readercon is a s.f. convention not quite like any other. As the name alludes to, it is almost exclusively about written science fiction. It is also attended by the Best of the…
Up at 6 AM. I noticed that the old TV, DVD player, microwave, and a few other items were removed from the trash pile overnight. None of them work right (and the microwave doesn’t work at all) but maybe whoever took them can fix them and get some use out of them. I forgot to…
Took a sick day today because of a bad night of allergies and arm aches, which led to antihistamines and pain-killers. I’ve put myself on the DL for our game next Wednesday as I think I need to give my arm some rest. I made as good use of the day as I could, considering…
I head up to Boston for Readercon early Friday morning. Alas, I am only able to stay through early Saturday evening. Given my short stay, here is my tentative schedule of events that I am hoping to attend while there. Friday 11:00: Science Fiction as a Mirror for Reality 13:00: -Esque No More: Transcending Your…
We have a road-trip planned to Yankee stadium this September. Thanks to the efforts of Sarah, four of us have tickets to the Orioles/Yankees game on Saturday, September 20 at Yankee stadium, the last time we will get to go to the old ball park. We are planning on making a road-trip weekend of it…
More progress on move and wedding stuff yesterday: Moving progress We went over to the new place last night and paid the pet deposit and pro-rated rent for July. We also requested to get the keys a day early so we get them on Friday, July 25, which means we can get an earlier start…
We had a softball game last night and we lost by 1 run, with the final score of 15-14. It was frustrating. With a runner on first and second and 1 out, we grounded into a game-ending double-play. I played pretty well. Spend the first 4 innings at shortstop and the rest of the game…
On Friday, I mentioned that I don’t seem to read much in the month of July and in fact, pointed to only 4 books that I read in this part of July over the last 13 years or so. Well, I noticed an interesting coincidence involving those books that I have read in July: they…
Due to my lack of Internet access until the 28th (or so), I made two backdated posts (here and here) for this weekend. For those of you who typically follow along on your Friends page, you’ll have to view these posts from the links above.
Kelly was meeting with Sarah and some of Sarah’s family to go up to Baltimore and pick out flowers for the wedding. We were up early and, after getting rid of an old carpet in her bedroom, both headed out at around 10:30, she to go to Baltimore, and I to go home. I spent…