Um, Wednesday?

[rolanni]

Last night I came home and unshipped the vacuum cleaner for some Serious Rug Cleaning, after which I Fully Intended to Write.

Ahem.

I wound up taking the Dyson apart three times before I got all the clogged up stuff unclogged and the rugs passably clean, by which time Steve had come home, fried, I was a nervous wreck, and we looked at each other and said at exactly the same time, “Glass of wine and some Paladin?”

So, that’s what we did.

Today, the day-job was slightly less frenetic than it has been.  I think I’m getting to the end of the fiddly little bits, thank ghod.

Unfortunately, just when I was ready to label it a Good Enough Day, one of my bosses decided she wanted to host a reception and called to dictate the list of food and drink she wanted served.  I read the list back to her, got an ack,  reserved the room and made the arrangements with Catering.  After which, my boss revised the list, not once, but twice.

I think I’m gonna institute a minimum three-hour cooling off period for this particular boss before I do anything she tells me to do, so she has time to dither, second-guess, and renege, and I don’t have to make extra work for myself and other folks on campus.

Steve and I have a speaking gig tonight; leaving in about an hour.

I’m seeing some reports of Saltation sightings, deliveries, reads, and in one case at least, a re-read!  Wow, you guys are fast.

We haven’t yet received our shipment of pre-orders, but — soon.

Soon.

Originally published at Sharon Lee, Writer. You can comment here or there.

Comments

[cailleuch.livejournal.com]

Fabjabulous day. The box sitting on my front porch was a copy of Saltation. Read the eARC when it came out but I always prefer the dead tree versions. I don't have to recharge a book, but I do have to recharge the Touch (usually at THE worst place to stop).

[wolfsilveroak.livejournal.com]

I have a Dyson Animal Ball. I love it. LOL However, I sucked up a piece of fabric and the rollers stopped. I felt so stupid when the customer service rep told me to push the little grey button with the roller pic on it.

[(Anonymous)]

::laughs:: Guilty as charged. I have the eBook Saltation, and I've read & reread it. Fun!

I hope tomorrow finds you rested and with time to write.

Adrianne

[keristor.livejournal.com]

I have never forgiven that cleaner company for not using the correct name with their round model, the Ball. Obviously (to any SF fan) it should have been called the Dyson Sphere (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dyson_sphere)...

(That article has a lovely understatement. When discussing the idea of using the planetary mass of the solar system to create such a thing it says: "This includes the cores of the gas giants, which may be hard to access". Ya think?)

[kinzel.livejournal.com]

You know, if you start with big balloon like scoops to steal away the atmosphere for the hydrogen ... eventually you end up with bare surface ... and then you can send in scrapers. As the mass descends it gets ever easier to get at the core .. .eventually the core releases energy and then you have access to the rest of it ...

easy as remembering the 13,333rd digit of pi, really.

[(Anonymous)]

Easily the most awesome thing about the Dyson-- something that makes it different and better than my last vacuum-- is that you can actually get to and clean the whole blinkin' system. Useful when you have shedding cats, yarn, etc. that stop everything up.

[mbarker.livejournal.com]

I know I shouldn't ask, but do you have another machine for cleaning the funny rugs? Actually, how do you tell the serious rugs from the funny ones? Oh, oh, I know... rub their naps and see which one laughs? But seriously...

Reread?

[artbrooks.livejournal.com]

The big-box bookstore (B&N) says it is on the shelf at one of the two Albuquerque locations. Dilemma - go down there, sit and drink coffee, and read the final version or wait for my support-the-online-serial copy to appear? I think I'll go and read Fledgling again while I decide.

Saltation sighting

[(Anonymous)]

Saltation arrived at the Colgate Bookstore in Hamilton, NY last Friday, sold a copy to me on Monday and to the teenager I addicted on Tuesday, and now needs to be reordered for the Staff Picks section, where it will hang out next to Fledging, Bujold and other very assorted titles. I then proceeded to stay up WAY too late Monday night to finish reading the final version and haven't gotten the sleeping right yet. Read the eARC of Mouse and Dragon when it became available, so now I'm caught up, as it were, on Liaden stories. Love how they all fit together - can't wait to read Scout's Progress, M&D and Theo stories all in a row, when the mood is right.

many many thanks for writing stories that never disappoint!
Kate the book pusher

Crazy Bosses

[(Anonymous)]

I had a boss like that. I always had to wait to confirm his travel arrangements until 24 hours before he left. Actually cost the company less that way because I didn't have to pay all the change fees. He once called me from the GATE at the airport to have me change his flight. 5 minutes after I sent him the confirmation for the new flight - he called to have me change it back again.

On the upside...he got laid off a year ago and I still have a job. Karma does work.