home for awhile

Back home from Maine and trying to cope with the Florida heat.  Not a bad tradeoff, frankly, for the pleasure of getting back on the bicycle for awhile.  That walking stuff is for the birds.  The long-legged varieties, anyhow.  (The island does have one inexplicable bicycle, rusting away, but no actual roads.)

It was inexpressibly comforting to pedal down to my favorite coffeehouse (The CYM Coffee Club) and scribble into the familiar bound book.  With dozens of different coffees and teas just a buck away.

I was away from home for all but four weeks in May, June, and July.  Even with the heat, I'm glad to trade airplanes and airports for the bike.  And writing with a regular schedule instead of catch as catch can.  (I did have ten days of uninterruption on Norton Island, but was annoyingly sick or injured most of that time.)

David Langford reports in Ansible that "_Linn's Stamp News_ (27 May) reports that under a new US Post Office marketing manager, commemorative stamp plans 'no longer include likely poorly selling subjects like science fiction.' The planned Asimov, Bradbury, Dick, Heinlein and Herbert stamps, first postponed until 2014, may never appear. [AIP]"  Well, who uses stamps anymore, anyhow, you old fogies.

My computer gave up the ghost enroute back to Florida, slowly decaying into a sullen parody of artificial intelligence.  But my trusty repairman tweaked it back into perfection overnight.

So I have a solid four weeks of work before going off to the worldcon in San Antonio.  Maybe take a long weekend in Cedar Key, but that's only ninety miles, and a great working environment.

Bliss.

Joe