The Late Wednesday Report

[rolanni]

As previously advertised, it's snowing. I asked Google what the snow accumulation was going to be and it said, "One-point-three-seven inches," and I know it's just messing with me.

The WIP now weighs in at +/-100,700 total words, with more words yet to be written. Despite my having removed manymany words, this is still going to be a long book, as we here in the Liaden Universe(R) count book length. I apologize in advance.

The name of the belly dancer whose clip I shared on FB the other day is Rachid Alexander and at least one 10-minute performance is on youtube. In case anybody might be interested.

In other news, I'm out of cookies. I'm not sure how this keeps happening. Probably the cats eat them when I'm out running errands.

Michael Carbonaro, a magician, is coming to the Waterville Opera House in March and I wanna go see him, because -- Magic! Show! OTOH, I'm looking at the prices and -- eep. Well. He'll prolly sell out without any help from me.

I am going to have to call the lawyers handling the Anthropic business and get myself to a humanbean. It transpires that my affairs are not straightforward, what a surprise, and I'm running out phucks to give, which -- it would be smart to continue with the giving of phucks for a little while longer.

So! Since I'm done writing early today, and the lawyers are in Seattle, where it's just after lunchtime, I s'pose I'll get on the phone.

Bah.

Everybody have a good evening. Stay safe.

I'll check in tomorrow as can.

Oh, Firefly was caught on camera, Helping:

Comments

Happy Holidays

[(Anonymous)]

Hello Ma'am,
My wife and I are also fans of Mr. Carbonaro, and even though he is not coming to our neck of the woods, we would like to send you money so that you can attend the show and have fun and maybe write a little about it so you can share your experience with all of us!
What our thought is if we were to contribute $200, hopefully that would be enough to cover purchasing you a ticket to the show, and paying for you to be able to get a ride back and forth so you wouldn't have to drive at night in the dark and cold.
Should we just sign up for a Patreon account? And send the money that way? Or do you have any other suggestions?
Mark and Susan Van Gee
Fans of the Liaden Universe and the Cat Farm & Confusion Factory world

Re: Happy Holidays

[rolanni]

Hello, Mark and Susan.

That's very generous of you; I do like live magic shows, and I haven't seen Mr. Carbonaro.

However, I am no longer a patron of the Waterville Opera House (where this show is scheduled for March), and I can't imagine that it won't be sold out before the remaining tickets are thrown open to the public.

For information, Patreon is in it for the long-term. It wants people to subscribe to their favorite artists at $X per month, and I hear it's a bit complex to do that. One-time gifts of $ to ... well, me, since I can't speak for my colleagues in this, would be PayPal or an old-fashioned check mailed to PO Box 1586, Waterville ME 04903-1586.

Hope that helps.