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Jun. 5th, 2025 05:40 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
For those who were wondering about 2025's chapbook (remember that?) -- roughed out, including the back matter, but not the front matter, we're looking at 29,780 words/136 manuscript pages. Contents are: Author's Explanation, Neutral Ground, Outtake: The Healer Removed; Core Values; Text of the Heinlein Acceptance Speech.
This is still in Very Rough Shape, and it naturally takes second place to the novel, which! I'll begin reading tomorrow, because, yes, I DID get All The Stuff Done, and it is time -- nay! past time! -- to go back to work.
It's my intention to post the first two installments (the only two installments I can find, and, indeed, possibly the only two that were written) of Cyberplane, Steve Miller's electronic fanzine from 1996, to The Usual Places, possibly tonight, and Devote Myself To My Craft, tomorrow.
Which is to say, Friday on the East Coast of the USA will be a Planned Electron-Free Day at the Cat Farm and Confusion Factory.
So! Everybody stay safe; I'll see you, for sure, on Saturday.
Alligators are everywhere in Florida. In fact, I actually proposed to my wife next to an alligator pond when we lived there. That wasn't the plan; it's just that alligators are so prolific that we happened to be next to a pond of them at the time.
For the most controlled alligator experience (not a fan of free-range alligators), go to Gatorland, the alligator-themed amusement park.
Among the resident gators is Jawlene, a young lady who has no upper jaw. Gatorland posts on Facebook that she was rescued from the wild in 2023. Although she was severely malnourished at the time of rescue, she's recovered her proper weight and is a popular attraction.
-via Massimo