Quick hits
Not much of the blogging in this last week. Of course, last week was my busiest week all year. I'm pretty much caught up now, so I'm just responding to things as they come in. If past trends are any indication, "things coming in" will slow down substantially around the middle of next week, no matter what the authors have said they're going to do. Several half-formed blog posts in my brain, but none fully fleshed out. So here, have a braindump:
- I upgraded my cable service, and rented a DVR, specifically for the purpose of watching "The Waters of Mars" on BBC America this Saturday (well, and the two Christmas specials on the subsequent two weeks). I told Elora that I wanted it for football playoffs and the Olympics as well, which is why I'll keep it past January 2, but it's really all about the Doctor Who.
- I showed Sparky "The Christmas Invasion" the other day, under the guise of a Christmas special. He then specifically said that he wanted to see the next episode, and the one after that. It's slightly too early to say yet, but I may have hooked him.
- Haven't been feeling the Christmas thing yet, really. Shopping got a little more complicated than I anticipated, but it always does. Fixed now, though. Haven't put my lights up yet; either I'm bombed at work, or it's been raining. I'll have to make some time this weekend, or just not bother.
- I just found out that an author I'm working with is younger than me. Substantially younger. Like, younger than two of my three younger siblings. That was kind of unexpected. I've had authors I knew were much younger than me once or twice before, but they were flakes who couldn't write and quit as soon as that fact became obvious. This guy's writing a very large book, completely on his own, and it's quite good. That shouldn't really be a blow to my ego, but it kind of is. A bit. Not much.
- I signed up for a Twitter account about a month ago, because I thought I might need it to follow some of my authors, who are Twittering more and more these days. I got busy, though, and haven't touched it since that first day. This morning I got an e-mail that I have a follower. I checked it out, and it seems to be a real person, not a spam-bot. Who the heck would follow an empty Twitter account?
- On the same front, I got an invite for Google Wave from tangerinpenguin, and signed up a few weeks ago, mostly to forestall that moment, six months from now, when an author says to me "You do have a Google Wave account, don't you?" Again, been too busy to look at it since. Somebody wanna tell me what I'm supposed to do with this thing now?