Up around 8:30 and had some breakfast to get the day started. I had some work to do in the early part of the day, but instead, I lazed around for a while. I started reading Tom Vanderbilt’s book, Traffic, and became utterly fascinated by it. The book is all about, well, traffic, and as…
I’ve got lots to do over the weekend in preparation for my trip to L.A. next week. Some work, some errands. I managed to get to the library today to pick up a book that was on hold for me, Traffic, which I’m looking forward to reading. And speaking of reading, I had four magazines…
I stopped home after work to collect Kelly, and we headed over to Crystal City Sports Pub for happy hour. We parked where we usually park, in a zone where permits are required until 5 pm. Like always, we got there at about 4:50 pm. We drove around looking for a legitimate spot, but couldn’t…
When I got home from work today, I had a rejection slip from Asimov’s, which was a little disappointing. But I’m packaging up the manuscript and sending it off to the next market tomorrow, before I head off to Los Angeles. Also, I packaged up and sent off the February story to Analog today. The…
I saw my doctor this morning. He looked at my thumb and tested out a few things and concluded, for now, that it is probably swelling from a repetitive motion injury. He suggested a wrist brace as well as upping the amount of Advil that I’ve been taking. See how it goes for a week,…
We finished up the 3-day training session this morning and I am so glad that it’s done! Now I’m shifting gears in order to prepare for my team’s “retreat” next week in Santa Monica. It feels like a Friday today. I don’t know why that is. I forgot to bring my lunch today; I think…
I wrapped up the final draft of the February story this evening. The last pass through stood at 6,300 words and in doing line-edits tonight, I managed to cut it back to 5,500–more than 10% of the whole. It’s going through a final review by some critical eyes before I send it off, but overall,…
Halfway through training day #2 and I still have no feeling in my right thumb. I have an appointment with my doctor Friday morning. Someone has come by my office to make sure my desk is ergonomically sound. My mouse has been moved to my left hand (which is a bit of a challenge). I’ve…
St. Patrick’s Day! Today was the first day of three days worth of training that I am leading at work. I’ve been preparing for this training for the last month, creating the materials, getting the courses built, organizing the training. Day 1 went okay. There are 6 people being trained in my office, and about…
We slept in Sunday morning. It’s so quiet up at Sarah’s parents (their house is essentially in the woods) that both Kelly and I sleep very well when we are up there. Once we got up, we lounged around for a while, and then Michael made breakfast and the six of us managed to consume…
We slept in a bit this morning because we got in so late last night. We both showered and then headed downstairs for breakfast. Arnie and Nancy were up and we chatted with them while we ate breakfast. Sarah got up just before we headed out. We borrowed Sarah’s car and drove for about an…
Around 7 pm, we headed over to Sarah’s. Originally, we were expecting 5 of us plus Oliver, the dog, to be going up to New Jersey, but Michael’s girlfriend was sick and didn’t end up coming. So as soon as we got to Sarah’s, we piled into her car and got on the road. It…