The Aerie
Has it been ANOTHER week since I posted? Sigh.
I was going to say "my business level has been dropping slowly,"
except that I don't mean business-business, I mean busy-ness business.
How CAN one distinguish between the two words? Business, meaning work,
has NOT been decreasing, it's been staying nicely, er, busy. But
BUSIness, or busy-ness, has been decreasing slightly, since much of
what I'm doing for work is now of a nature that when it's done, it's
done, and I don't have to keep working on it evenings and weekends.
That was a confusing paragraph.
Anyway, with a little more breathing room in life once again, I was
hoping toget back to going to the gym. Alas when I arrived I
discovered that in my absence they had cut the lock off my locker.
Fortunately the locker had nothing in it -- I'd taken my clothes home
to wash them -- but without a lock I couldn't secure my belongings in
the locker room after changing.
And would it have killed them to call? Ah well.
So I have YET to get back to the gym. Soon, I hope. Like, as soon as I
can figure out where I put all those other locks I've got in the
house.
I realized the other day I am now supposedly working on writing THREE
books at the same time. This will all be very impressive if I ever get
them published, of course, but for now its simply ridiculous. I'm
working on revising my game sourcebook "Mitlanyal" for publication
this summer; I'm working on my Tekumel novel for publication whenever
I get it finished; and I'm working with some colleagues on a security
book for business. Three books, while also doing everything else.
As I've said elsewhere, my fire is mostly irons.
Or to put it another way, I'm nuts!
Meanwhile spring is finally arriving. I've heard the usual comments
from Minnesotans emerging from winter hibernation, but I'm not buying
them. Sure, we had some cold snaps this winter, but we had almost no
snow and spent a lot of the time in a kind of suspended autumn-ation,
waiting for winter to arrive. As I've said elsewhere, if this is
global warming, bring it on! It's been two winters in a row now that
we haven't had a "real" Minnesota winter, and frankly I'm enjoying the
break.
Although it's amazing the fuel efficiency I get from my little Metro
in subzero weather. Engines become more efficient the greater the
difference in temperature between the engine operating temp and the
ambient temp, and when it's 10 below zero I get almost 40 mpg city.
With prices heading towards $2/gallon, this is a good thing.
And of course I'm not talking about the war, which by the time you
read this may have both started and/or ended. I figure, everybody's
talking about the war, and I can't claim to have any particular
knowledge of the situation anyway, so why add to the white noise? I
mean, it's a bad business all around, and I'd really like it if people
didn't get hurt. That's about all I can say on that grim matter.
Spring is here, the buds should be emerging soon, war is in the air,
and I'm rushing through life in a ridiculously mad fashion.
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Posted by Albatross at March 19, 2003 12:00 AM