Tweety McTweetersons

• 10:46 Just printed off a whole bunch of color CD inserts for backup CDs of albums I bought from iTunes. Unfortunately I am out of jewel cases! #
• 16:02 Really need to get back on the stick with Lament. Swinging back around to edit Chapters 1 and 2 since 17 is kicking my ass. #
• 18:12 353 words killed out of Chapter 1! About 5,700 more words to kill before I can re-query this thing. Wish me luck folks. #
• 22:13 That's more like it. 464 words killed tonight. About 5600 to go. #

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Drollerie Press authors go a'blogging

It's official: I'm organizing an actual blog tour! Eleven of the authors at Drollerie Press, including myself, are joining forces to tour around each other's blogs. I'm hoping to make this a monthly event to promote not only my writing, but also that of the other writers of Drollerie as well.

This month we're doing intro posts about ourselves and what we write, and we're trading off posts to each other's blogs. We'll be having posts go live on January 31st, and I'll post a full list of links to the posts as soon as I have 'em.

I myself will be taking on a post from hyperbard, so watch this space for her post!

And meanwhile, for the sake of posting more than just Tweets

Here's a general update in the life of me!

I'm definitely grooving on the new job. The atmosphere of the office is very casual and relaxed, and I'm going to like this whole Agile/Scrum mode of getting projects done. I really like the idea of sitting down as a team at the beginning of a month and going, "Okay, we're doing these things, can you do this and you do that and you over here do this other thing", and then we all just go do it.

Also, I am desperately in love with the chair they gave me. It's super-comfy. It's leather. I can lean back in it and work and my back doesn't complain. At all. I will be able to put up with a lot at this job if they just let me keep this chair. <3

And I don't know if it's all the extra walking, the stress release of not having to worry about looking for a job, or both, but my energy level has gone up considerably. Sleep's still weird and I'm having to rely on sleep meds to knock myself out in the evening, but at least I'm starting to feel a lot more like myself than I have in months. Of course, this could also be tied in with not having to have any more saline fills either. But whatever the reason, I'm happy with it.

I am delighted to discover that one of my teammates is the lead singer for a local band called The Wages of Sin. He describes them to me as very Pogues-like, and while I haven't listened to enough of the Pogues for an informed opinion, I can authoritatively state that they do remind me a lot of Captain Tractor. This is a very good thing. It was also very cool to just be able to music-geek with him and provide evidence (a la the old Three Good Measures MP3s) that while I am strictly an amateur when it comes to making music, I do at least know what I'm talking about.

Should also note that another (former) coworker of mine, Eric Goetz, is a musician too. He's in a band called Central Services, and I plan to be checking them out next. Though they'll have to fight with Angelique Kidjo, the Chieftains (I mean, seriously, people, why the hell haven't I bought more Chieftains before now), Alexander James Adams, vixyish and tfabris, and s00j for my musical attention. I've got a lot of recently acquired music I need to get caught up on.

Speaking of music, solarbird has been doing open mikes again and had a very good time last night at the open mike at the Wayward, as well as doing a bit of open filking at Rustycon. I myself am saving my energy to drop in on Conflikt. So for the filk-inclined among you, I mean at least the ones who don't already know about it, you might consider coming by Conflikt and helping a little filk convention get its feet under it for its second year.

Last but not least I am in the middle of reading Jennifer Crusie and Bob Mayer's jointly written romance Agnes and the Hitman, and I am enjoying it immensely. I mention this by way of handing out props to the fine ladies at Smart Bitches Trashy Books, without whom I would never have known about this quite entertaining duo. More on this will of course be forthcoming in a review post.

Miles since September 30th: 195.7
Miles out of Hobbiton: 3310.3
Miles out of Minas Tirith: 473.3
Miles to Hobbiton: 1151.7