Mortaine’s Blog

I dropped off the speakers to be packed up today. Need to pick them up tomorrow. Whew.

Brought my laptop and novel printout to work today. I plan to do a little reading on the novel as I get the opportunity, and am going to Coffee Society tonight for the write-in. I wonder if re-reading my own novel counts for the ?

I also brought my cross-stitch project, because I realized that I didn’t work on it yesterday or the day before. I don’t know when I’ll have time to work on it today– maybe at CS while giving my brain a break.

John bemoaned his lack of tools today when I needed him to procure speaker wire to test the speakers this morning. I think maybe Sunday will be the day to do the “hardware” part of the garage.

Oh, and I wrote a little card yesterday to . I carefully sealed it with green sealing wax, addressed it, and stamped it with an Air Mail stamp.

This morning I realized that I was going to congratulate her on her new comms adminship, but I couldn’t remember which category she’d recently been made admin of, and I left the half-line blank, intending to look it up. Only, of course, I forgot to look it up and finish the line.

So there’s this blank half-line at the beginning of my signed-and-sealed card for . Should I open the card and finish the sentence, put a “PS” on the outside of the envelope, or send it as it is and hope she reads this journal entry and understands?

I dreamed there was a chemical contamination at Nanometrics.

I dreamed that I met , , and at a science fiction convention in San Jose.

I can’t remember the third dream I had…. something about driving an 18-wheeler, and then sticking it in my backpack when I needed to walk somewhere.

I sent “The Perfume Bottle” to Glimmer Train’s Very Short Fiction contest.