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Tuesday, March 18th, 2008
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12:00p - Catching up
Allergies are out of control after last week's flood. Luckily, our landlord is awesome, and contractors will be here tomorrow to start ripping up rotten wood, replacing damaged sheet rock, and start treating for mold. A massive new dehumidifier will also soon arrive, courtesy of said awesome landlord.
Meanwhile, our new vacuum and bread maker have arrived. Glory!
Also arriving last week, my contributor's copies of BOUND FOR EVIL, the new anthology from Dead Letter Press, containing my short story "Flames in the Night." Man, this is a beautiful book! I'm proud to be included in its pages.
The mail also brought a great rhino drawing I commissioned from cartoonist Pat Lewis (![[info]](http://p-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif) lunchbreak_pat). I've been holding off on buying much art since going freelance, but adding this to my collection makes up for it.
In writing news, last week brought news that one of my regular clients wasn't going to use me any more, but they were quickly replaced by another client, offering more money and a contract for eight feature-length articles. So that worked out nicely!
My Green Tech column at RiverWired.com is off to a good start. It's getting lots of Diggs and a few comments. Extinction Blog is also heating up, with last week's post on chimpanzees in entertainment generating lots of email. I really, really like that some of my work helps to make a difference.
New fiction is going slow, dammit. The flood messed with my mojo, and now the allergies are making my joints ache like they're made out of barbed wire. Hopefully I'll get one or two more stories finished soon so I can announce the secret project I've been working on.
I haven't been drawing any new cartoons, either, because my hands hurt too much to hold a pen for long enough to finish a drawing. But in good news, the webcomic will break 2,000 page views in the next few days. I have enough finished cartoons to keep it going through March; after that, we'll see.
Okay, time to take a break from the computer. New breadmaker = homemade bread = great-tasting sandwiches!
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