C.J. Cherryh's Blog, page 192
February 23, 2010
Posts will be sparse the next number of days…
We're taking a little refresher break…everybody have a good time and nobody discuss anything controversial until we're back in full force. 
We'll check in to be sure no unbearable amount of fun is being had without us. Posting of lolcats and loldogs is entirely encouraged.
February 21, 2010
February 20, 2010
I'm gaining on the new computer…
It's still a little stiff, but I'm the one who can loosen a keyboard right up. Bigtime. And reversing buttons on the mouse made things behave sanely. I hate trying to drag anything by curling my thumb under my hand to push and hold a stupid button. Whoever thought of that must have been left-handed. Now that drag and drop is leftward, I can push and hold with it completely out from under my palm. That helps.
insert, home, pg up, down, end, and delete are all in a little cluster above...
February 19, 2010
The new computer is here…
…and it is void of all my programs and settings. This is going to be a slow build. All the conveniences I have set up over the last 6 or so years are not here…not to mention my programs, like word processsing, etc.
Win 7 is pretty doggedly determined you are going to use Bing, which is the stupidest, most intractable search engine in existence—but it can be disabled and tossed. If you Manage Addons, or some such, install some of these alternatives, and insist, you can be rid of these...
February 18, 2010
Jane's made some formatting discoveries…which will translate to…
…nicer e-books in some formats. Some of the older formats (RTF, TXT and others) have some problems (gappiness and not displaying graphics) that she believes she can resolve. We aren't yet ready to undertake revision of all our books, since Jane deserves the time to get her own books up there, but it will happen. Basically it calls for creation of 3 basic 'foundational' texts and going from one of those for specific file types. Very much a case of try-it and learn. Plus Jane has found out how ...
February 17, 2010
Ok, anybody wanting changes in the CC site, send 'em to ME…
Jane's absolutely exhausted. Nobody's commented on her new book, just come to her to tell her everything they don't like about the site. And every time she runs a fix somebody wanted (most of them nice ideas) she has somebody else writing and asking for yet one more fix. Remember she's not the webmaster—she's a working writer trying to get her own books prepped for publication after having helped Lynn and me bigtime; so it's MY turn on the firing range.
Our last fix: we changed the big window ...
February 16, 2010
Caught the infamous 'convention cold'…
Last night I was miserable, with a beastly upper throat soreness. Between saline rinse, Theraflu, and a nice glass of Merlot, I got through the night fine. I cooked breakfast this morning wearing a swine-flu mask, trying not to sneeze on Jane's breakfast.
Otherwise, I'm trying to get the galleys in for Deceiver and get a little rest. You'd know this would happen right when I'd like to feel good, and we've got another con next week. Thank goodness we'd nixed the plan to drive straight from...
February 15, 2010
Back home after Radcon
We drove down for Radcon—were in cellphone communication with OSG, headed in the same direction. I read the front end of the new Bren book to Jane on the way down, and was happy it sounded good.
Radcon was, as I understand, a little less organized than usual…which is usally very good; but once you began to understand it was informal and just 'winged it' on the panels, it began to work. Jane and I weren't on any panels together: we usually like at least one.
But Larry Niven was the goh—we know e...
February 10, 2010
Dimwitted me…didn't point the announcement correctly. JANE has a new book up!
http://www.closed-circle.net/WhereItsAt/?page_id=721
Plus it's got the first section of the book as a free download for any who'd like to have a look at it.
Jane just got the book up right before we left for the rink, and I hastily tried to put up the announcment, but didn't do it right. So here's hoping this link takes you to the right spot. If all else fails, look for Ring of Lightning.
And if you see a book underlined in our catalog from now on, you can click on that underlined name and get a...
