What I've Done
May. 26th, 2006 12:03 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
shipperxWell, I haven't managed to work on the second draft of Perfect Vengeance tonight as I had planned. Just didn't get around to it. I will hope, hope, hope that I can get around to it this weekend. What I did manage to do:
* Finally made a hotel reservation for WriterCon
* Finally bought a Ticket to WriterCon
Which, I think pretty much seals that I'm going to WriterCon. Too bad I can't lose a substantive amount of weight between now and then. Damn.
* Packed for trip to the beach:
Flipflops
Shorts
Capris
T-shirts
Faux Tanning Lotion
Sunscreen
Swim Suit (lets see if THAT gets used)
DVD
Filled my fauxPod with MP3s
Burned two CDs to listen to on the way down
Packed Books:
Henry VIII's Children by Allison Weir
http://makeashorterlink.com/?M29352C2D
The tragedy of four accidental rivals to a throne, three of them children?by different mothers?of a much-married despot, seems to lose none of its drama by frequent retelling. Along with the royal siblings, Weir (The Six Wives of Henry VIII) includes their cousin, the doomed Lady Jane Grey. Guiltless of the intrigues committed in the name of religion, power and property, Queen Jane was forced at 15 to reign for nine days in a futile attempt to block the accession of the fanatically Catholic Princess Mary. The 300 burnings for heresy during the five years Mary ruled were eclipsed statistically by the hangings and beheadings for conspiracy and treachery. In the 11 years between the death of Henry VIII and the survival of his adroit daughter Elizabeth into the succession in 1558, rapacity had at least as much to do with the turbulence and the terror as religion. (Publishers Weekly)
Death Masks (Dresden Files) by Jim Butcher
http://makeashorterlink.com/?X1B343C2D
Harry Dresden is not having a good day. A vampire named Ortega is hunting the beleaguered wizard, intending to challenge him to a duel that, Ortega claims, will end the war between the vampires and the wizards. Harry has almost no hope of winning the duel, but soon he is preoccupied by another problem: Father Vincent, a priest, needs Harry's help in finding the Shroud of Turin, stolen by a trio of thieves. Harry traces two of the thieves to his hometown, Chicago, but when he finds them, he learns that he isn't the only one after them. A group of terrifying demons wants the shroud, and its leader is interested in Harry's soul, too. Harry must call on all of his friends, including three brave knights, his police-officer friend, and even his half-vampire ex-girlfriend, Susan. Butcher maintains a breakneck pace in Harry's exciting fifth adventure. This imaginative series continues to surprise and delight with its inventiveness and sympathetic hero. (American Library Association)
The computer is going with me (so I have hopes of finishing up Chapter Seven of Perfect Vengeance) but I honestly don't remember whether Sis paid for cable in the house over the winter, so I may or may not have access to the web. But... it's rest and relaxation, right? Web access optional.
I'll still be around tomorrow (I'm working as per usual) and leaving tomorrow evening (I think. Still trying to schedule whether or not I'm taking my neice). Then I'm gone for the holiday weekend (which I extended through next Wednesday). So, tomorrow afternoon I'm off to the beach until mid-next week.
If I don't post agan, everyone have a great Memorial Day Weekend.
* Finally made a hotel reservation for WriterCon
* Finally bought a Ticket to WriterCon
Which, I think pretty much seals that I'm going to WriterCon. Too bad I can't lose a substantive amount of weight between now and then. Damn.
* Packed for trip to the beach:
Flipflops
Shorts
Capris
T-shirts
Faux Tanning Lotion
Sunscreen
Swim Suit (lets see if THAT gets used)
DVD
Filled my fauxPod with MP3s
Burned two CDs to listen to on the way down
Packed Books:
Henry VIII's Children by Allison Weir
http://makeashorterlink.com/?M29352C2D
The tragedy of four accidental rivals to a throne, three of them children?by different mothers?of a much-married despot, seems to lose none of its drama by frequent retelling. Along with the royal siblings, Weir (The Six Wives of Henry VIII) includes their cousin, the doomed Lady Jane Grey. Guiltless of the intrigues committed in the name of religion, power and property, Queen Jane was forced at 15 to reign for nine days in a futile attempt to block the accession of the fanatically Catholic Princess Mary. The 300 burnings for heresy during the five years Mary ruled were eclipsed statistically by the hangings and beheadings for conspiracy and treachery. In the 11 years between the death of Henry VIII and the survival of his adroit daughter Elizabeth into the succession in 1558, rapacity had at least as much to do with the turbulence and the terror as religion. (Publishers Weekly)
Death Masks (Dresden Files) by Jim Butcher
http://makeashorterlink.com/?X1B343C2D
Harry Dresden is not having a good day. A vampire named Ortega is hunting the beleaguered wizard, intending to challenge him to a duel that, Ortega claims, will end the war between the vampires and the wizards. Harry has almost no hope of winning the duel, but soon he is preoccupied by another problem: Father Vincent, a priest, needs Harry's help in finding the Shroud of Turin, stolen by a trio of thieves. Harry traces two of the thieves to his hometown, Chicago, but when he finds them, he learns that he isn't the only one after them. A group of terrifying demons wants the shroud, and its leader is interested in Harry's soul, too. Harry must call on all of his friends, including three brave knights, his police-officer friend, and even his half-vampire ex-girlfriend, Susan. Butcher maintains a breakneck pace in Harry's exciting fifth adventure. This imaginative series continues to surprise and delight with its inventiveness and sympathetic hero. (American Library Association)
The computer is going with me (so I have hopes of finishing up Chapter Seven of Perfect Vengeance) but I honestly don't remember whether Sis paid for cable in the house over the winter, so I may or may not have access to the web. But... it's rest and relaxation, right? Web access optional.
I'll still be around tomorrow (I'm working as per usual) and leaving tomorrow evening (I think. Still trying to schedule whether or not I'm taking my neice). Then I'm gone for the holiday weekend (which I extended through next Wednesday). So, tomorrow afternoon I'm off to the beach until mid-next week.
If I don't post agan, everyone have a great Memorial Day Weekend.
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Date: 2006-05-26 10:45 am (UTC)Whoot with a side of squee! See you there.
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Date: 2006-05-26 03:50 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-05-27 01:52 am (UTC)