We're gonna bo-oh-owl tonight
...or rather, we did bowl on Saturday. Amy E. and I finally managed to drag Scott and Christina out to the bowling alley to take my new shoes for a spin. Lucky us, it was Cosmic Bowling night, which means they turn the house lights down and the music up. Add a few disco lights and black lights for emphasis, and some flourescent bowling balls for oomph.
The shoes are great; one of them has inserts in the sole to adjust its slide. The other is pretty obviously the "stopping shoe." (My terminology – I don't know a damn thing about the theory of bowling.) In any case, I managed to break 100 on the first game, which is something that doesn't happen to me normally. Of course I totally wiped out on the second game, but a good time was had by all, and I didn't have to pay for shoe rental. Woo hoo!
Christina seems to be feeling better this evening, although she did fall asleep again at about eight o'clock. The cats have taken turns coming into the bedroom to cuddle. It's Suzie's shift now.
Have book, will travel
I wrote to one of the organizers of Atlanta's DragonCon today, pitching myself and Scott as prospective panelists. The woman I wrote to is in charge of the writers' track, which usually focuses on science fiction and fantasy, but I think I gave a pretty good pitch as to why we should be included. Scott mentioned to me the other night that Mike Nelson and Kevin Murphy, a couple of the guys from Mystery Science Theater 3000, will be the convention "hosts," emceeing the costume contests and whatnot. For those of you who live in blissful ignorance of such things, MST3K is a show in which a man and two robot puppets watch a bad movie and mock it. (Or at least it was – it was cancelled after its tenth season.) We couldn't ask for a better weekend in which to launch our book, and DragonCon just happens to be at the end of August. Whether they invite us to be guests or not, the opportunity to market the book at this convention will be massive.
Of course, it will also be my 6th wedding anniversary, but I'm hoping Christina will forgive the intrusion. I still have to make up for last year's DragonCon.
And speaking of the book, we are so very close to being done. It's a maddening process of tiny details right now, but we must must must have it buttoned up by the end of the week. Then off it goes to the printer. Stay tuned.
Watching: E.T.: The Extra-Terrestrial - the only science fiction movie that my grandmother liked better than I did. Also, The Minus Man. Owen Wilson stars as an oddly benevolent serial killer. Don't ask me to explain, watch it yourself.
...or rather, we did bowl on Saturday. Amy E. and I finally managed to drag Scott and Christina out to the bowling alley to take my new shoes for a spin. Lucky us, it was Cosmic Bowling night, which means they turn the house lights down and the music up. Add a few disco lights and black lights for emphasis, and some flourescent bowling balls for oomph.
The shoes are great; one of them has inserts in the sole to adjust its slide. The other is pretty obviously the "stopping shoe." (My terminology – I don't know a damn thing about the theory of bowling.) In any case, I managed to break 100 on the first game, which is something that doesn't happen to me normally. Of course I totally wiped out on the second game, but a good time was had by all, and I didn't have to pay for shoe rental. Woo hoo!
Christina seems to be feeling better this evening, although she did fall asleep again at about eight o'clock. The cats have taken turns coming into the bedroom to cuddle. It's Suzie's shift now.
Have book, will travel
I wrote to one of the organizers of Atlanta's DragonCon today, pitching myself and Scott as prospective panelists. The woman I wrote to is in charge of the writers' track, which usually focuses on science fiction and fantasy, but I think I gave a pretty good pitch as to why we should be included. Scott mentioned to me the other night that Mike Nelson and Kevin Murphy, a couple of the guys from Mystery Science Theater 3000, will be the convention "hosts," emceeing the costume contests and whatnot. For those of you who live in blissful ignorance of such things, MST3K is a show in which a man and two robot puppets watch a bad movie and mock it. (Or at least it was – it was cancelled after its tenth season.) We couldn't ask for a better weekend in which to launch our book, and DragonCon just happens to be at the end of August. Whether they invite us to be guests or not, the opportunity to market the book at this convention will be massive.
Of course, it will also be my 6th wedding anniversary, but I'm hoping Christina will forgive the intrusion. I still have to make up for last year's DragonCon.
And speaking of the book, we are so very close to being done. It's a maddening process of tiny details right now, but we must must must have it buttoned up by the end of the week. Then off it goes to the printer. Stay tuned.
Watching: E.T.: The Extra-Terrestrial - the only science fiction movie that my grandmother liked better than I did. Also, The Minus Man. Owen Wilson stars as an oddly benevolent serial killer. Don't ask me to explain, watch it yourself.
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