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 First of all, I'm happy to report that, thanks to a team alliance, Mason's robotics team won a match this morning!  Luckily, alliances are a thing, because earlier the team's twitter feed reported: "Our code is so broken that we had to call in the experts."

students, including Mason, hunched over a laptop



Secondly, if the "GoH Meet and Greet" is any indication, Minicon 53 is going to be AWESOME. Rachel Swirsky, whose stuff you should buy, support, consume, and nominate the F*CK out of--is delightful and charming.  As is her husband Mike.  Seriously, I'm having a literary crush on these two.  BUY ALL THEIR THINGS. 

You guys know me, right?  I'm such a lark. I'm usually looking at my watch at 9:00 pm, thinking, "OMG, how much longer do I have to stay awake???"  Last night, I had so much fun with Rachel and Mike (and Rob Callahan and a bunch of the MiniCON crew) that I didn't get home until 11:30 pm!!  UNREAL.

I'm not headed into the con until around 5 pm today, because Shawn and I would like to try to catch a bit of the robotics stuff (and hand off Mason's new phone, which we finally got working today).  We also did some grocery shopping since Shawn and Mason will be on their own both Saturday and Sunday (which is Shawn's birthday.)  I made Shawn a couple of quiches so she would have good home cooked food to survive on, too, because that's just how damn dolly domestic I am!

Okay, off to have lunch and go see robots!

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Well, there's a bunch of things going on in my life right now. In about 15 minutes, I'm off to hang out with Eleanor and Naomi (and possibly my friend Rosanne) for our writing "date." So, I have to make this kind of quick.

First, we woke up this morning to the sound of Mason barfing. I would be more worried about him, but he seems to do this on ocassion. He's sick for part of the morning, and then he completely rebounds. So, though he's missing the half day of school today, I'm going to bring him along on the writing date because I'm quite confident he'll be fine.

Yesterday I discovered that Tate's last Garnet Lacey novel, HONEYMOON OF THE DEAD, is already available for pre-order on Amazon.com. Get 'em while they're hot! They're pretty confident I'm not a slacker, though, because I got the copyedited manuscript for this book on Monday. I've got a two week turn around, but I guess they figure even if I don't get it back to them on time, I just don't get a say in what gets changed. I have to say in addition to having my cover art completely switcherooed on me, I also apparently got assigned a copy-editor whose questions, while valid, are driving me to an insane (and possibly less than career-healthy) desire toward snark. For instance, s/he probably would have looked at the sentence I just wrote here in this blog and say that it should be written in more correct English (ie, "replace, "desire toward snark" with "a desire to reply in a mean and scarcastic way.") A valid point, perhaps. However, his/her replacement would completely strip that line of its quirky narrative voice. And I've been hovering over the comments feel temped to write, "sorry, but Garnet is not Spock. Correct English usage be damned!" And then put a smily face. A career killer? Hard to say.

Also, Google Alerts found a YouTube video wherein local author Rob Callahan talks about the "joys" of being mistaken for me. (He's such a good sport.) I'm attempting to attach it here. Let me know if it doesn't work. (Here's the direct link at any rate: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8z-QAC4xexs

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