The Aerie
Oh, look, it's my weblog.
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So here I am once again after a long break. Sorry, sorry. It's just
been that kind of a month.
I don't think I expected it to BE that kind of a month, mind you. But
it turned out that way.
Last week my two-part role-playing book [1]Mitlanyal was due at the
publisher on Wednesday. Coincidentally, my report on my trip to El
Paso was also due that day. And submissions to the Grand Research
Challenge were due that day. As was a proposal for a contracting
agency, as well as two resumes. Due that day.
Two butterflies After getting everything done at 3:00 a.m. on Thursday
morning I got a little sleep and then did something -- I can't quite
recall what -- during the day on Thursday.
Thursday night I couldn't fall asleep, and ended up remaining awake
until Friday night. Friday evening my daughter had her half-dozen
friends for her sleepover. And Saturday I attended a gala thrown by a
client. The governor and city mayors past and present attended, and I
was out til 11:00 p.m. When I returned home I recalled that my spouse
had volunteered to tend our 6-month-old niece. Screaming until 1:30
a.m.
Three butterflies So this week I mostly staggered through,
semiconscious, trying to recover from last week. Everytime I thought
of working on the weblog some other activity, usually closer in
character to sheer vegetation, came to mind.
Tonight my son is having his sleepover, so the entry will be brief.
Well, it will be what it ends up being, if this is brief this is
brief.
One nice break along the way was that for the past month some kind of
butterfly has been passing through the Twin Cities. Last week I caught
a cloud of them visiting our garden.
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Yeah, it's one of those again. One nice thing about [1]Asia Carrera's
Bulletin (warning, top image not work safe, scroll down quick) is that
I can use it as a benchmark: if she updates her bulletin before I
update my journal, I know I'm REALLY late doing so.
My El Paso trip report needs to be written up soon, and I also have a
9/12 deadline for a roleplay book which I am actually taking seriously
this time. When the El Paso trip report is finished the actual full
report needs to be written by the end of the month. And by October my
son and I need to have gotten his robot working if we want to
participate in MechWars. So I'm just slightly hilariously busy.
Not to mention, of course, actually working on stuff, like getting new
clients, serving existing clients, etc.
So I apologize to both of my regular readers for my irregular writing,
but man oh man I'm up to my ears.
It'd be nice if it paid, too, but I guess that's a bit much to expect.
Anyway, more soon. Right now I'm off to work on the game book, and
give blood at the Red Cross.
P.S. Shout out to [2]Google for their cached web pages. I accidentally
deleted my previous entry and then I couldn't restore it off backup
tape for love or money. (I could -see- it on the backup tape, but
couldn't extract it. This is what I get for working with a 1978
technology in 2003 I guess.) But I ran out to Google, grabbed it from
cached, copied and pasted the source, and my deathless prose is
restored.
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