29 Comments on “Not Dead, Just Busy”

1. Busy too, but not at a conference.

2. Busy….staffing Ops at a Worldcon keeps you busy :) I LOVE coming to these thing, volunteering lets me meet LOTS of cool people! I keep missing you tho…Catch you at the Masquerade!

   Regina

3. Fine, thanks.

4. And if you were dead I’d use my voodoo powers to raise you and to be my Slave Zombie Scalzi.

5. Getting over the disappointment of not being there by looking forward to watching the Hugo Awards ceremony tomorrow via the miracle of the interwebby thingy.

6. Oh, you have no idea. …but it is also busy work, and also easy to externally confuse with death.

7. You should have a little pasteboard sign made to wear around your neck that says:
   . . .I ATEN’T DED

8. Getting ready for Tuesday, which is Dragon Ship’s Book Day, the day that all! 15! Liaden novels are released in audio from Audible, and! the day I remove to Old Orchard Beach for a month so I can, um, write the two books that are based there, and are due in February. And of which exactly 20,000 immortal words have been committed to pixels.

   By the time my fun starts, yours will be over.

   Hope you had a good con!

9. Notta lotta going on around here. Hubby’s best friend had another friend visiting from out of state, so the four of us made a day of it. Went out for breakfast, went to the local museum (hmns.org), came back here and had jambalaya for dinner. Our guests just left. ‘Twas a nice day, all things considered.

10. Wrestling with powerful and hostile database systems.

11. Happy International Bacon Day!

12. I was at the Stagg room to hear about the sartorial possibilities of smoked meat but Ghlaghee didn’t show up. I am so totally disapointed.

13. Just enjoyed the dickens out of a Cards Against Humanity session. With moderate drinking. Considering it’s 10:30 and I’m entirely ready for bed, I guess that’s a perfectly reasonable stand-in for a con. Bonus points: own bed and no creeping con crud.

14. Doing well for the most part, we got a new dog this weekend, His name is Cody to go with our little girl’s name Cheyenne as she picked him out of the lineup, er shelter.

15. Hope you are having fun as well as being busy :).

16. Here at the con and busy too. Thanks for a great reading–but could you post a link to the u-tube reading of your hugo nominee that you mentioned there? Anything that makes you laugh so hard you … deserves a link for your Whatever followers. You know, in all that spare time you have. thanks again

17. Not busy at all. Spent today chilling with friends and indulging in hobbies. And someone brought me a just-because cake. Omnom. Tomorrow: more hobbies. Possibly some archery. I am doing the weekend right for a change.

    Enjoy the con!

18. Today was a day that I just couldn’t get my brain in gear… so I lounged around all day watching through all of the Marvel movies (well… at least all the good ones).

19. Trying to get the house tidied up before my partner returns from business trip to Beijing. Stack of school books is taunting me. Cat is watching me clean. Commenting on Whatever to avoid condescending feline amusement. I miss summer :-(

20. Not at Worldcon, but I did go to a free Baroque concert on period instruments at an outdoor theater, so that was fun.

21. Enjoying Worldcon but having difficulty accepting the fact that now that I’m in my 40s, getting by on 3 hours sleep really isn’t doable for several nights in a row.

22. I am good. Spending the week finishing a book. Writing. Not reading. Nice to be this close to the end.

23. It’s really cool that you are the toast master, but honestly, wouldn’t you rather be the bacon master?

24. Just back from a last-minute gig with our rock band at Stickmen Brewery, playing on the outdoor deck beside the lake. Rocked out for the evening and left ’em dancing, so it was a GREAT night!

25. I am busy incubating a host of deadly viruses (virii?). Will I be able to unleash their full and terrible potential before I am consumed from within by that same terrible potential? WHO CAN SAY.

    Being sick kinda sucks. :(

26. My wife and I spent a happy Saturday shoehorned into a couple of Delta flights out of Florida in order to get to Oklahoma City to see our daughter, who works at the local Humane Society. Had a lot of fun getting to meet all the animals currently in residents and have a better understanding of why she likes working there. One word: KITTENS!

    Of course, the 100+ degree heat is only the icing on the cake…

27. I’m doing well, thank you. Heading out to my favorite diner for an afternoon of putting words on paper. Hope you’re enjoying your particular state of busy.

28. Not dead yet, just busy. But soon my church will have hired a music director, and that means I can stop chairing the search committee and ad-hoc directing the choir, and go back to just chairing the music committee. Still wondering how the hell I turned into a church lady. This middle age thing is weird.

29. From the whatwitters: Guitar question for guitar people: Has David Gilmour ever done a guitar solo that features anything shorter than a quarter note?

    I’m a guitar person who happens to know how to play some Pink Floyd. “Wish You Were Here”, I’m pretty sure, has a couple of of notes faster than a quarter note for the guitar solo. Not a lot, but they’re in there.

    If you’re looking for classic solo guitar, there’s “Stairway to Heaven” by Led Zeppelin. Or something newer, there’s “Under the Bridge” by Red Hot Chilli Peppers. (both have to be played without a guitar pick, you have to pick individual strings with your fingers, sometimes two disconnected strings at the same time)

    If you want to change gears, maybe you want some 1-4-5 blues. If you want something fast in that genre, maybe Killing Floor by Howlin Wolf?