the travel, it is happening
I'm plugged in at a gate at Sea-Tac, waiting for my first of two flights of the day.
I'm still not sure (other than ticket price) why I booked myself a set of flights that start at 4:00pm Pacific. It's 2+ hours down to San Francisco, then a 1.5 hour layover, then about a two hour flight over to Salt Lake City, where I will arrive (if everything is on schedule) somewhere between 10:30 and 11:00 pm. Then get luggage, call hotel shuttle, get to airport... Likely checking in around midnight.
At least tomorrow is Sunday, no teaching to be done.
I do have the November issue of Lightspeed magazine to proofread, plus I have volunteered to proofread Bryan Thomas Schmidt's upcoming anthology "Mission: Tomorrow." Both of those are multi-day projects. If my hotel is where I think it is (it's not the same as the past several years, sadly) and the weather cooperates, I may decide to walk up to the open-air mall in the afternoon and see A Walk Among The Tombstones, so that I can compare book and novel.
I read all of AWATT on Wednesday's flights from Newark to Denver, Denver to Seattle. I also put a good bite into Kevin Hearne's Hunted, the not-quite-latest Iron Druid Chronicles entry, and finished that up over dinners the past few nights.
I hit both a Half-Price Books and a Barnes and Noble near the Seattle hotel. At the HPB, picked up a few old Arthurian anthologies, a Gilgamesh novel by Craig Shaw Gardner, and Ken Scholes' first novel. I also found Highlander Season 4 on dvd for $7.49 (Dave, I told you the wrong price the other night ... but this was still a deal). At the BN I found several recent Marvel and DC collections that my own BN at home has not had in stock (Fables Vol 20 (Camelot), All-New Invaders Vol1, and Loki: Agents of Asgard vol 1) and have already read all three of those. Yeah, I'm a glutton.
Have not been doing any writing this week. Need to correct that.
Bummed that even if my hotel tonight in SLC did carry BBCAmerica, I'd miss Doctor Who thanks to the flight times. But it's DVR'ing at home. I will be able to watch tomorrow night's Once Upon A Time, as long as I don't forget what time zone I'm in.
And I found out that Sam's episode of Last Man Standing, which he taped a few days ago, is the sixth of the season. The show's season premiere was last night, so in 5 weeks I get to see my boy on the same set with Tim Allen. That's very neat.
And now to shut down the laptop and prepare to board.
I'm still not sure (other than ticket price) why I booked myself a set of flights that start at 4:00pm Pacific. It's 2+ hours down to San Francisco, then a 1.5 hour layover, then about a two hour flight over to Salt Lake City, where I will arrive (if everything is on schedule) somewhere between 10:30 and 11:00 pm. Then get luggage, call hotel shuttle, get to airport... Likely checking in around midnight.
At least tomorrow is Sunday, no teaching to be done.
I do have the November issue of Lightspeed magazine to proofread, plus I have volunteered to proofread Bryan Thomas Schmidt's upcoming anthology "Mission: Tomorrow." Both of those are multi-day projects. If my hotel is where I think it is (it's not the same as the past several years, sadly) and the weather cooperates, I may decide to walk up to the open-air mall in the afternoon and see A Walk Among The Tombstones, so that I can compare book and novel.
I read all of AWATT on Wednesday's flights from Newark to Denver, Denver to Seattle. I also put a good bite into Kevin Hearne's Hunted, the not-quite-latest Iron Druid Chronicles entry, and finished that up over dinners the past few nights.
I hit both a Half-Price Books and a Barnes and Noble near the Seattle hotel. At the HPB, picked up a few old Arthurian anthologies, a Gilgamesh novel by Craig Shaw Gardner, and Ken Scholes' first novel. I also found Highlander Season 4 on dvd for $7.49 (Dave, I told you the wrong price the other night ... but this was still a deal). At the BN I found several recent Marvel and DC collections that my own BN at home has not had in stock (Fables Vol 20 (Camelot), All-New Invaders Vol1, and Loki: Agents of Asgard vol 1) and have already read all three of those. Yeah, I'm a glutton.
Have not been doing any writing this week. Need to correct that.
Bummed that even if my hotel tonight in SLC did carry BBCAmerica, I'd miss Doctor Who thanks to the flight times. But it's DVR'ing at home. I will be able to watch tomorrow night's Once Upon A Time, as long as I don't forget what time zone I'm in.
And I found out that Sam's episode of Last Man Standing, which he taped a few days ago, is the sixth of the season. The show's season premiere was last night, so in 5 weeks I get to see my boy on the same set with Tim Allen. That's very neat.
And now to shut down the laptop and prepare to board.