Tactile Writing

OK, this is making me crazy. I need a word. The word should have the same shape and weight as "abbot." It can be -- probably should be -- a made-up word (usually, I have no trouble at all making up words -- rather otherwise, so that my friends very rightly consider any Weird Word I may come up with in conversation with a degree of suspicion -- but this one is for some reason a stumper). In context it will refer to the head administrator of a magical hospital.

In other news -- Ebayers take note. If all goes well, the coreboard promotional poster for Balance of Trade that Meisha Merlin carried around to conventions will go up on ebay this weekend. Much depends on figuring out how to sensibly approach the shipping issue. It will have to go UPS and I feel in my heart that it ain't gonna be cheap.

Tomorrow, I have a six month review at the dayjob. I haven't had a six month review in more than a decade. This ought to be interesting...

Dear Open Office

What in Ghu's Name were you thinking when you decided that it would be Cool and Useful to hang a macro to draw a heavy line on the following sequence of keystrokes: three asterisks and a return

I mean, nobody would ever actually want three asterisks centered on a line, right?

Word Count

Progress on Duainfey

28,361 / 100,000 (28.4%)

Books Read

Books Read in 2007

Carnival, Elizabeth Bear
Thunderbird Falls, C.E. Murphy
Miss Melville Regrets, Evelyn E. Smith
Personal Narrative of a Pilgrimage to Al Madinah and Meccah, Sir Richard Burton
Changeling, Delia Sherman
Girl Genius, Omnibus Volume I, Phil and Kaja Foglio
An Assembly Such As This, Pamela Aidan
Definitely Dead, Charlaine Harris
To Ride a Rathorn, P.C. Hodgell
Deliverer, C J Cherryh
Agatha Heterodyne and the Circus of Dreams, Phil and Kaja Foglio
Agatha Heterodyne and the Clockwork Princess, Phil and Kaja Foglio
Tam Lin, Pamela Dean
Duty and Desire, Pamela Aiden
Unshapely Things, Mark Del Franco
Narbonic, Volume 4, Shaenon K. Garrity
Grey, Jon Armstrong
Time's Child, Rebecca Ore
The Margarets, Sheri S. Tepper
All Together Dead, Charlaine Harris
The Golden Compass, Philip Pullman (re-read)