Gonna be a rumble on the promenade

Yesterday! We installed the new Super Router we’d bought on our Monday expedition. It was easy, and fairly fraught-free. I did have to call Netflix, but the helpful young man who answered the phone got me all straightened out in about six seconds’ flat. Which means.

The television now streams Netflix.

Both The Leewit and Haysus can find and use the wireless signal in the living room.

Victory!

Other than that, I banged some more on the bookkeeping, and wrote, and did laundry, and ranted on the intertubes. Boring ol’ day, really.

Today, I have an appointment to get my hair cut. I’m not ruling out magenta dye, but it’s equally possible that I’ll just stick with the silver.

After the hair cut, I need to pack, and finish the laundry, and catch up some more email, and explain to Scrabble and Mozart how, yes, we are going to be gone again for Days and DAYS, but that Mary will be right here with them, so that they won’t lack for quality service.

Tomorrow, we’re for Fitchburg, and the Great New England Steampunk Exhibition. See you there!

Progress on the Book Presently known as George
48,850 of 100,000 OR 49% complete

“Who’d thought such a little kid could make such a big mess outta Simon Says?”

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Rolanni’s new hair

So, the new haircut and the new color. Not quite magenta, but stripes of purple-brown and red-brown amongst the gray.

Rolanni's new hair. Oil painting by Lynn Barnes

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Books read in 2011

Defender, C.J. Cherryh (read out loud with Steve)
Magic Under Glass, Jaclyn Dolamore (e)
Silver Borne, Patricia Briggs (e)
Warrior Sheep One: Quest of the Warrior Sheep, Christine and Christopher Russell
Phoenix Rising, Pip Ballantine and Tee Morris (e)
Crown Jewels, Walter Jon Williams (e)
Explorer, C.J. Cherryh (read out loud with Steve)
Defender, C.J. Cherryh (read out loud with Steve)
Bond of Blood, Roberta Gellis (e)
Inheritor, C.J. Cherryh (read out loud with Steve)
I Don’t Want to Kill You, Dan Wells
Invader, C.J. Cherryh (read out loud with Steve) Library Wars Volume 1: Love and War, Kiiro Yumi The Perilous Gard, Elizabeth Marie Pope
Edie Ernst, USO Singer — Allied Spy, Brooke McEldowney
Silver Phoenix, Cindy Pon
Treasure Island, Robert Louis Stevenson (e)
Foreigner, C.J. Cherryh (read aloud with Steve)
Betrayer, C.J. Cherryh (read out loud with Steve)
Right-Ho, Jeeves, P.G. Wodehouse (e)
American Rose, Karen Abbott
The Bull God, Roberta Gellis (e)
Sin in the Second City, Karen Abbott
Of Blood and Honey, Stina Leicht (e)
The God Engines, John Scalzi (e)
Or Else My Lady Keeps the Key, Kage Baker (e)
Unseen, Rachel Caine
Total Eclipse, Rachel Caine
Weight of Stone, Laura Anne Gilman
The Story of Chicago May, Nuala O’Faolain

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Ain’t I rough enough? Ain’t I tough enough? Ain’t I rich enough, in love enough?

The bookkeeping is almost done. The little bit that’s left will have to wait until after the con.

The back-brain helpfully supplied me with the rest of the scene I was working on yesterday for George — the “rest” being the stuff that goes in between the sentences. I have made notes. The Leewit will of course be traveling with me, and I hope to have some few minutes to work, in between It All.

I will be freezing the discussion of copyright violation because I won’t be around to unscreen anonymous posts.

And now? I have to pack.

What’re y’all doing that’s fun?

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