Brief Update

OK, this blog will have random postery over the next few weeks. I am full-fledged into my move to Iowa. It's been a crazy couple days.

WEDNESDAY: I went into New York to have lunch with my more-than-lovely editor Juliet Ulman. I then went out for drinks with a bunch of people (Juliet, Schleup, Fleetwood, Richard Morgan, Bill Shunn, Virginia, etc.) on the way to the KGB reading. I stopped in at KGB to say goodbye to a few people (Rick Bowes, Ellen Datlow, etc.) that I knew would be there. A sad moment to be sure.

Yes, I'll see most of these people at conventions, and no, I didn't get into New York very often lately, but the opportunity was there, and now it's gone. It's starting to hit home that I am moving away and making a major life change. Unfortunately, I had to skip the reading so that I could get home and get some rest before...

THURSDAY: I drove to WI. Yep. 15 hours in the car. I have some photos of the trip that I'll post some day. Put about 930 miles on the car. Long day. Now one of our cars is most of the way to our new home. I have to say when I got most of the way across Ohio I got REALLY bored. I started calling people to pass the time. Hopefully I have minutes left. :)

FRIDAY: Drove to the Quad Cities in IA and back. I did some prelim work for my move and showed my parents a little bit of the area.

SATURDAY and BEYOND: I'll be flying back to the east coast for the final push in getting packed and ready for the move. My wife is starting to get stressed about the move, but we have until Thursday when the movers come. We still don't know for sure when our stuff will arrive in Iowa, but we should know sooner than later. We'll drive out to the midwest on Friday.

As I said, this blog will not get updated with any planned regularity. Neither will the website. The website may even disappear while I get things sorted out with web space. I will not be able to fulfill orders very quickly. On top of that, the page proofs for LOGORRHEA should be on my doorstep tomorrow when I get home from the airport. They're due on Feb 2., so I'll be trying to get that done while we move.

What's everyone else up to?