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This war is so strange. Boy oh boy. Some General Boy on the radio going on about all the hundreds of Al Queda in the mountains we've kill, kill, kill!!ed over the last week. While I appreciate frankness... I dunno. He just seemed to be really into it, is all.
On the other hand, I always say that I enjoy hearing people talk positively about their jobs, so maybe I have a double standard.
(Usually I mean that should I, say, walk into a Cumberland Farms and overhear a trucker talking excitedly to someone about a recent, especially successful run he's made, I get a glow that lasts all day.)
Enough! What's been going on with me? Happy things, mostly.
On Thursday, cthulhia and I went geocaching, which I hadn't done in a long time. We couldn't find the cache, but I appreciated very much her dragging me out of the house to enjoy the nice day. I decided that I'm not very good at the searching part of geocaching since I get too contemplative, too easily... it's the only time I get out into "nature" and I find it easy to forget I have a goal and just wander, absorbing the surroundings. It's funny that I can only motivate myself to get out there by declaring I have a goal, though! Yes, we all love geocaching.
Afterwards, we went to Rosebuds and ate PIE. Cuz it was PI DAY. I had APPLE PIE. I hadn't been there before, and it worked out well -- even though the place seems packed whenever I walk past it, at 17:30 on a Thursday we were the only diners. Food very good (I was very hungry) but kind of expensive. Waitstaff was goofy. I'll be returning.
Yesterday I officially started turning outline into text, with the nutshell book. This after reading the first couple of chapters of "Windows 98 in a Nutshell", which Chuck gave me to use as a model. It really does strike a balance in its style... call it colorful austerity. Trying to be fun to read and mega-concise simultaneously is quite an interesting challenge.
Much of this weekend, though, I'll spend reading P&X one last time. After Tuesday, we authors can't touch it any further, and in another few weeks it should be on shelves! Wow. Sometime in the near future it will Launch, which means that oreilly.com will start hyping it in earnest, and put up a sample chapter. I have made a hype page of my own as part of my new personal website, and if the launch happens before I'm done with my site makeover (quite likely, given my current task priorities) I'll graft it onto the old site.
On the other hand, I always say that I enjoy hearing people talk positively about their jobs, so maybe I have a double standard.
(Usually I mean that should I, say, walk into a Cumberland Farms and overhear a trucker talking excitedly to someone about a recent, especially successful run he's made, I get a glow that lasts all day.)
Enough! What's been going on with me? Happy things, mostly.
On Thursday, cthulhia and I went geocaching, which I hadn't done in a long time. We couldn't find the cache, but I appreciated very much her dragging me out of the house to enjoy the nice day. I decided that I'm not very good at the searching part of geocaching since I get too contemplative, too easily... it's the only time I get out into "nature" and I find it easy to forget I have a goal and just wander, absorbing the surroundings. It's funny that I can only motivate myself to get out there by declaring I have a goal, though! Yes, we all love geocaching.
Afterwards, we went to Rosebuds and ate PIE. Cuz it was PI DAY. I had APPLE PIE. I hadn't been there before, and it worked out well -- even though the place seems packed whenever I walk past it, at 17:30 on a Thursday we were the only diners. Food very good (I was very hungry) but kind of expensive. Waitstaff was goofy. I'll be returning.
Yesterday I officially started turning outline into text, with the nutshell book. This after reading the first couple of chapters of "Windows 98 in a Nutshell", which Chuck gave me to use as a model. It really does strike a balance in its style... call it colorful austerity. Trying to be fun to read and mega-concise simultaneously is quite an interesting challenge.
Much of this weekend, though, I'll spend reading P&X one last time. After Tuesday, we authors can't touch it any further, and in another few weeks it should be on shelves! Wow. Sometime in the near future it will Launch, which means that oreilly.com will start hyping it in earnest, and put up a sample chapter. I have made a hype page of my own as part of my new personal website, and if the launch happens before I'm done with my site makeover (quite likely, given my current task priorities) I'll graft it onto the old site.