Blogetary (Weblog + Commentary = Blogetary)

Okay, I’ve been waiting to get the actual stuff so I could take pics and post them up for you, but that isn’t happening quickly and by the time the stuff does arrive, it will be old news. SO -

1) I know I’m impatient. I got tired of waiting for the tech world to catch up with what I think an eReader should be. In my mind, it should resemble a combination of things from The Diamond Age, Star Trek, and Andromeda. And it should be easy to use and relatively inexpensive and open source. And I wanted it over a year ago. So, instead, I opted for the HP Mini with Mi Netbook, which I will use as an eReader and also as a good second mini-email type machine. Due in any day now. I just keep missing the FedEx guy.

2) I have a short short story out in the July 2009 issue of Beyond Centauri called “The Spider and the Crow.” I really had a good time writing it. I began it whilst waiting for a grant writing class to start back in February or March 2008. Just wrote with the flow and really enjoyed it.

3) I finally got some junk out of my apartment! Yay! My old, huge, heave tv had quit working a while back. It was too heavy for me to do much with but shift a little. The speakers I’d used to create better sound (and that I’d had since college) were old technology and there was nowhere to hook in the speaker wires in my new flat screen tv. And then there are the futon mattresses I’ve been wanting to get rid of for a very long time. So, I called 1-800-Got-Junk, or went to their website, and they came and took it away (for a fee of course). But they were polite, checked in when they said they would, worked quickly, and were great to deal with.

4) I have a new futon coming next week, and a lounger chair coming the week after that. I am so happy!  I got rid of my old icky chair months ago. It had served me well over the years, but by the end, it was done.

5) I have heard back regarding a Christmas story that had been accepted but kind of got lost in the works and it’s back on track. That’s really cool.

6) I have finished editing and rewriting a story that used to be up online, but since that website is no longer viable, I decided to revisit that story. See what I could do to rework it, update it, and perhaps submit it someplace else. I am not sure who will be interested, but I feel good about the work I did on it. So, I hope it finds a home.

7) I am close to, what I hope to be, the final set of revisions for another short story. About half-way through. Hopefully I’ll get it done and spruced up this weekend and I can send it out into the wide world.

By this weekend, or the end of it, I hope to finally be able to say I’m caught up with my life – the writer meeting minutes will have been completed, writer club blogs updated, apartment cleaned and rearranged, all associated paperwork sent off to clients, laundry put away, and in general hope for a good, “ah, it’s done for now” feeling by Sunday night.

9) Next week, I will have been at Curves two months, which isn’t very long, but is longer than I’ve been at exercising in a while.

10) FINALLY, my friend Liz has just had her inaugural short story, Modern Love, published over at Every Day Fiction.  It’s a brief story, takes probably five minutes to read, but the rest of the day to appreciate. I recommend going over there and checking it out!