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I am glad to be home. Weather is cloudy and gray (by Hawaii standards of cloudy and gray) but still awesomely wonderful (i.e. I am not cold). Our flight took a huge detour to avoid a massive Pacific storm, adding about 45 minutes to our flight time, but that is TOTALLY OKAY with me if it means less chop.

I am headed out to see if anyone is paddling today. Then, I must place my ducks in a row and start down the to-do list. Somehow, in some alternate universe, I will get through that list *a...

2009: "I think he's done as well in the situation as anyone could have done."

My year end political post starts with a question I just asked my father. I note here, for those who don't know, that my father is a retired educator, whose field is American History, and frankly he knows as much as anyone I've ever met about American history and has a very clear sighted view of the past, present, and future.

So I asked him (while he was cooking eggs for breakfast for me, my spouse, and three grandchildren--two mine and one my strangely tall nephew):

"What grade you would give...

Scrabble: the other version

We played Scrabble in the regular fashion. But then, for a final game, we played my sister's preferred version: in which you use the letters to form a word that sounds like it should be word, but you must play it together with its definition.

My favorites from the evening:

weetle: to annoy

somniad: the heroic tale of an epic sleeper

anjoupe: a small car in the form of a pear

kateelliott @ 2009-12-24T19:23:00

And to those who celebrate it:

Merry Christmas.

To those who celebrate other holidays at this season:

Happy Holidays!

To those who enjoy the time off, then have a great time.

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Okay, I haven't seen it yet, although I may or may not, mostly depending on if I can ever find time.

Anyway, Twin A and Daughter went to see it for a second time, this time in 3-D (first time in 2-D). Twin A, on returning, announced, "After seeing this a second time, Mom, I feel I can be pretty sure in saying that you will not like it." (due, he meant, to high cliche quotient in the script as well as the noble savage motif)

What I did find was an interesting discussion by anthropologists, fro...

Two Things

1) am too busy to attempt any writing anything, or reading, or anything except a quick check once a day of email, certainly not all my fine plans to write 1000 words a day or anything like that

2) my gosh, I am eating too much, and actually more than I want to (and far more than I usually do), and yet IT IS ALL SO TASTY AND GOOD that I keep eating more. I'm glad the dayafterdayofeating holidays come only once a year.

Happy Holidays + Book News

The response on the SFNovelists post has been great.

Meanwhile, although I realize I have not been posting here much at all this month due to Life, Deadlines, and Life and Deadlines, I will be scarce yet again, probably even more so.

Happy New Year!


BOOK NEWS (addendum):

The paperback of Traitors' Gate is due out in March 2010. w00t!

And I feel relatively safe in announcing that I am currently being told that COLD MAGIC will be published in Sept 2010. So, mark your calendars.

When what we think we know is right is actually wrong

I posted over on SFFNovelists.

kateelliott @ 2009-12-14T14:25:00

I am working hard. Thus, posting has fallen by the wayside.

Herewith a few links.

David B. Coe posts about
The Ideal Writer.

1. The Ideal Writer hits his deadlines.

Ulp. Anyway, very good post.


via rwglaub : Back from combat, women struggle for acceptance. (I note that this article is in the Marine Corps Times, so this is coming from within.)

"We just want to know that when we come home, America has our back," Chase said. "That's the biggest thing. Women are over there. You want to feel like...

Three Things Make A Drive-By Post

First, thanks for all the recs.

Second, I've been really really busy, thus the general radio silence. Busy continues apace (revisions under hard deadline and of course December which is always busy for other reasons).

Third, for those of you looking for a unique, inexpensive, but TOTALLY AWESOME present for that child in your life, here's a great little coloring book, Onoraptor Makes a Friend, now available on Etsy.