I’ve got to finish backing up the files on my hard disk, which is about two DVD-burns away, and chuck some MP3s onto my player — I listened to a lot of what I had on it during my China trip — and reinstall my laptop to run dual-boot with Windows XP and Ubuntu — the newer Ubuntu version, mind — and pack (of which tasks, packing is certainly not a big deal, even with the presents I’ve got in tow). Transfer some money to people who I’m supposed to send it to, today, and go to my office to …
Month: January 2007
Max Headroom Pirate Hijack?
Maybe the weirdest pirate broadcast you never heard of… or at least, that I’d never heard of.
Sometimes You Gotta Push To Get People To Do Their Jobs
The travel agent booking our flight, for example. She claimed that it would be impossible to confirm our return ticket direct from Vancouver to Incheon. I suggested we fly via Tokyo, and she insisted that, no, this was simply not possible. Only one stop in Tokyo would be possible, she said, and that was the one we were using to get over to Canada. Puzzled, because this sounds stupid, given that all the direct flights to Vancouver are booked but those via Tokyo aren’t, I called Air Canada and asked whether it was true that only one such transit was …
One-Shot Workshops
I won’t be able to make any of these, unfortunately, but you should think about them, if you’re writing SF: Leslie Howle from Clarion West has coordinated a series of one-day writing workshops with Richard Hugo House in Seattle this spring. There are five scheduled: Paul Park on January 28th – Fantastic Places – Making the Unreal Real Connie Willis on February 25th – The Techniques and Tropes of SF Terry Bisson on March 25th – Who Likes Short Shorts Peter Beagle on April 29th – Dialogue Says it All Karen Joy Fowler on May 20 – Soylent Green is …
Insane.
That’s my life these days. So I got to Incheon yesterday afternoon, picked up my keys from Lime, and got home last night. Today, worked on getting seat upgrades for the flights Lime and I are taking to and around Canada. We’re flying to Saskatoon on Friday. We’ll be back nine days later. This is crazy talk. If you’re in or near Saskatoon, Montreal, or Vancouver, and I don’t contact you, don’t feel put out. It’s a very rushed trip. I’ll be emailing whoever I can tomorrow. If I miss you, feel free to inquire. But I have a feeling …