Gray day, and leaves on the breeze

[rolanni]

What with one thing and another, the dining room table had gotten piled high with paperwork pertaining to SRM Publisher business, household accounting, knotty problems attached to the ongoing Fledgling mailing, Saltation donations; unread New Yorkers, and stray bits of the phone that doesn't work. Yesterday's job was to make order from chaos, which I have done, go me. Mind you, the New Yorkers are on the floor in front of the rolling file, and the stack of residual filing is only slightly shorter than I am and far less stable. Maybe I'll take a swing at that next Saturday.

Unless a cat decides to file for me in the meantime. Avert.

Today, we slept in, and enjoyed a leisurely breakfast. My plan as it now stands is to finish my coffee, write a couple of business emails, and get with "Hidden Resources." It would be very nice if I could wring a finished draft out of this day. There was talk over breakfast of creating chicken stew. It is, if I may say so, very nearly a perfect day for chicken stew. I wonder if we have any egg noodles...

For those who like to dare the odds, I will mention that there are only 120 copies of Saltation left for adoption.

Also, thanks to everyone who has offered up a description of Cheever McFarland. It's interesting to see the range of reader visualization. To quote Mr. Thomas Petty: "Y'all are gonna put me out of a job."

Comments

Never fear...

[(Anonymous)]

We just visualized Cheever, and elaborated on a bit of his likely early life...YOU both introduced us all to him! Don't go getting confused about which is cart and which is horse. He chose to introduce himself to you two and your imaginative muses, not any of us. Lead on, oh captains...!

P.S. Best of luck on that stack of filing staying cat-less for seven whole days...but I sure wouldn't take that particular bet, not given how my girls behaved all their lives. On the other hand they, and I, developed excellent "avalanche" reflexes over the decades, because with my own stack-oriented filing system for everything we got lots of practice.

Saltation adoption

[(Anonymous)]

Ahem, there are now only 119 copies left for adoption since on October 9th I mailed a check for another copy, destined for my daughter. I recently hooked my daughter on the Liaden Universe and even hand carried my precious copy of I DARE down to Raleigh so she could read it. Of course it came back home with me and when Baen, all honor to them, does the reprint, I will get her her very own copy. My granddauther is only eleven. Maybe I should do a bit of forward thinking and lay in reading copies of the whole reprint series so she'll have them available when she's older and won't have to beg her mother to please lend out her copies. That'll get me major points as a grandma!

Anne

Re: Saltation adoption

[rolanni.livejournal.com]

Nope, that figure includes your recently received subscription -- thanks much! Of course, since this morning, I've had a couple more subscriptions over the web, so we're down to, oh, 118 available.

Go for those grandma points!

Saltation adoption

[murphy73.livejournal.com]

Okay, now it should be 117 available since I just put in my order through PayPal. Loved the first book and it started me on a reread of all the previous books.

Pat

[brock-tn.livejournal.com]

I dunno, my image of Cheever has always been rather like Victor McLaglen without the Irish brogue and with long slender surgeon's fingers instead of the big prizefighter's hands that McLaglen actually had. But that's just me. I assume that in reality he looks exactly as he thinks he is supposed to. Not unlike the prebatout and his toes.