Is it over now? Do you know how? To pick up the pieces and go home

[rolanni]

So, the hospital came through with an early check-in time, but then we got to sit around for a couple hours before Steve's turn came in the outpatient operating room.  We talked with one of the nurses while we were waiting; she professed herself a great reader, though not of science fiction, and was, indeed, able to reel off quite a list of authors who do not write science fiction.  She credited her Kindle with increasing the number of books she was able to read, because of being able to just buy the next book without ever leaving her chair.  And then she said, "No, wait! I did read one science fiction book, and I liked it a lot!  It was called. . .it was called. . .Old Man's War.  But I don't remember the author."

Steve and I were able to help her out, there.

In fact, I did not take the galleys with me, remembering, as I did, and in the nick of time, the accommodations available to waiting family members.  This turned out to be a wise choice, for many reasons, not the least of which is that I really only had about 45 minutes to myself before Steve was back with a clean bill of health.  So, yay! for clean bill of health.

Once the hospital released us, we repaired to Tim Horton's for a late lunch. Tim Horton's in Waterville subscribes to FM 107.9 (the MIX, to you), which is a local Waterville station on which Tim's advertises,  thus this makes Perfect Sense.  The MIX plays oldies.  I mean Really Old Oldies, like, for instance, Gold Dust Woman (to which, yes, I know ALL the words), and so we will ritually blame Tim Horton's for the title of today's blog post.  Here's your link

After lunch, we came home (as he was coming out from under the anaesthesia, Steve insisted several times that the doctor was supposed to have given me a note to go to the ocean.  Alas, the doctor fell down on this important detail, so we went home.), whereupon Steve went to bed, and so to sleep.  The cats thought this was a Splendid! Idea! so they went to sleep too, which left me to ply my craft in wakeful solitude.  There are about 100 pages left of galley-reading left.  Can she finish in time to get the corrected pages into overnight FedEx by four p.m. Friday?  Tune in tomorrow for the answer to this, and other, thrilling questions. . .

In the meantime, it's been a long, and sporadically stressful, day.  I'm very tired, but realize that I need to eat something, though I've no idea what.

So, let me get off of the intertubes and  go solve that interesting problem before I fall asleep with my face in the keyboard.

Everybody stay safe.

Comments

sf

[furballtiger.livejournal.com]

glad to hear of the clean bill of health (an odd turn of phrase, it seems to me, but there it is). IMHO, Scalzi is the best writer of mil sf to date. Far, far better than some famous, at least partly, simply for having been earlier. It's not my favorite niche...but that boy can write. Others have "done more for the genre" (I'd argue Drake pretty much brought it back from the dead), but in terms of skill...Scalzi is impressive. It's a diff niche than you guys write in, tho.

Re: sf

[rolanni.livejournal.com]

No, we write space opera. I once had the. . .benefit of overhearing a conversation in which Conflict of Honors was being described as milSF, that being during one of the periods where the genre fancied itself Beyond such childish subgenres as "space opera" to the extent that the term "space opera" could not be used, even if what was in-hand was, well, space opera. That was when we started describing our stories as "romantic science fiction" and "regencies in space" -- which got us a bunch of readers out of Romance, but didn't do much for getting us into the hands of SF readers, many of whom found the word "romance" even more offensive than "space opera" -- and "adventure SF," which is kind of a oxymoron, kind of.

Sigh.

[mizkit.livejournal.com]

"Steve and I were able to help her out, there."

*laughs out loud*

I'm glad things seem to be going as well as they can be!

[bercilakslady.livejournal.com]

So glad to hear Steve's health is good.

[attilathepbnun.livejournal.com]

HURRAYYYYY for the clean bill of heath!

Try eating food. Food is good. Ravioli. Waffles. Sandwiches ... even soup! Chicken noodle is best

Very glad to hear

[ed greenberg (from livejournal.com)]

Very glad to hear of Steve's outcome. And thank you for all that hard work reading the galleys. Sooner or later, this too shall appear at Uncle Hugo's and I shall buy it.

It's a lazy Shabbat Saturday, so I think that I will emulate Steve and the cats, and have a nap. I have no cats, but I expect that the doggie will assist me.

All blessings...

[susan beaty (from livejournal.com)]

Glad to hear of positive health news. I did appreciate the blog title today since DH & I trekked to Philly on Wednesday to hear Fleetwood Mac in concert (with Christine!) and yes, they did "Gold Dust Woman", excellently I might add.

Steve; Cats

[catherine ives (from livejournal.com)]

Good to hear that the docs and the cats too....who are always ready to assist one to sleep.... are giving Steve a good report. Meow. zzzzzzzz.