Random Friday
It’s a Random Friday, because I’ve got revisions due by the end of this weekend, come Hell or high water. So, a list:
* Thank you to everyone who came to the Beaverton signing last night. I’m sorry my voice gave out on me; the reading was not all it could be. But I appreciate your patience–and your support!
* My weekly post at the Midnight Hour is up. It’s about avoidance behavior. Yeah, we’ve all done it.
* To Mr. Grenier: Dude, totally, what WAS that half-naked saxophone player in The Lost Boys about? Maybe it was his Big Break and he thought it was going to really make him in the biz, the way Crazy For You in Vision Quest gave Madonna the movie bug. I’m glad someone else looked at that scene in The Lost Boys and had the same “huh?” thought I did.
* A certain Mr. Flowers has completed NaNoWriMo. Good job! I’ll read it as soon as I can–and I am honored that you want me to.
* I am certainly a winter writer. The rains have moved in, and I’ve been productive like nobody’s business, despite coughing my lungs out and having the Fever Delirium From Hell this last week. Perhaps a rethinking of my writing schedule is in order.
* I am baking challah bread again today. Nom nom nom.
* To the Universe at Large: I get it. I’ve been working myself into the ground. I’ve stopped. Please don’t send any more flu bugs my way. I’ve learned my lesson. Honest.
Now to two questions for the Mighty F-List.
1. There is a certain gardening catalog printed on newsprint (or it used to be anyway) where you could get all sorts of awesome, crazy stuff, like tomato plants that grew Beefsteaks the size of baby’s heads and hedges that would bloom in winter, and all for really cheap. I CANNOT for the life of me remember the name of this catalog and hope someone knows what it is from that (admittedly vague) description. Anyone?
Bueller?
2. Does anyone have a method for getting a stuck CD out of a Sony CD/tape deck/radio stereo? I can’t figure out how to take the damn thing apart and probably should not, but I NEED that CD out and I would like to be able to play other CDs in there as well. The thing was working fine until a few weeks ago, when it suddenly decided the Niyaz CD was the only thing it wanted to play and wouldn’t give it up. It’s a 3-CD changer…I can post specs if anyone might have a clue on how I can fix this, preferably without taking the damn thing apart. Anyone have any tips/tricks?
And now, ducks, I have revisions to finish. Catch ya on the flip side…and have a good weekend, folks. It’s promising to be a weird one, but since when was normal de rigueur for a writer?
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