arisia is happening right now. And I am not at it, obviously, but reading the posts of everyone who is, and feeling a little bit of the echo of what it would have been to be there. So, thank you all for that.

But the new Lois McMaster Bujold book is out today (e-book version only; hardcover will be released Feb. 2). So I bought that this morning, and ( Read more... )

Happy new year!

I've never bothered with this meme, but since this is almost certainly the longest list I will ever have for a single year, and it makes for a nice year-in-review, I'll try it. ;-)

Somerville, MA (rang in 2014 chez ablock and family)
Brooklyn, NY
Boston, MA (Arisia)
Merrillville, IN
Lexington, MA (chez mercurysparkle and kalessinCambridge, MA (wedding ( Read more... )

Dear friends, I have so very much I would like to write about these days, and no time or energy to do it. My grand plan of using train time to compose journal entries on my phone has been pretty much sabotaged by the ongoing issues with my hands (oh yeah, more on that later too); I can thumb-type successfully for a while, but holding my hands up in ( Read more... )

I was about to say "belated con report", but it's really only been two days since I got home, even though it feels like about 6.

Things that were awesome about this Arisia for me: ( lots )

Stayed up til 1:30am last night finishing complete revised page proofs on the book project. Now I can leave for arisia with a clear conscience! Then I got up this morning and spent another ~3 hours getting the button supply ready to print up.

Here is what my anticipated Arisia schedule looks like: ( I should really copy this into the master calendar for future reference, too )

This coming Sunday is a major work event for which my entire department is working late nights all week trying to get ready.

The weekend after that is Arisia, when I'll be working 9-hour days at the MuffinButtons vendor table. I am super excited about this, but have also decided that my priority outside of vending hours will be... going to sleep ( Read more... )

Since I am vending at arisia, I can't carry all my cargo on public transit, so ladymondegreen's household offered me a ride up from NYC. Only, when they got to my doorstep around 9:30 this evening, it turned out there was not in fact room in the laden car for both me AND my stuff.

... Which I'd kind of thought might turn out to be the case, honestly. So I buckled my ( Read more... )

As previously noted, I will once again be vending MuffinButtons at Arisia! ... Yeah, I need to update the site, but that's not important right now. Trust me, I've expanded the collection by quite a lot from what's shown there.

But I'd like to expand it further.

So: market research.

Poll Order me up some custom buttons!(No one can see your answers, so be creative. You can also make ( Read more... )

Phone and internets are down at my workplace. As many of you can imagine, this precludes 95% of the work I need to be doing. Thank God our internal servers are still accessible, or there would go the other 5%. Meanwhile, I'm poking at the Treo while things burn and copy on my desktop machine.

In other news, due to a last-minute cancellation, ( Read more... )

I don't have much of a 2010 year-in-review at present, but for now I give you...

( January 2011 calendaring )