From The Ashes

[filkertom]

I'll probably go into detail later about Tuscon and the Eloy Red Roof Inn, but... I'm at my Mom's place in suburban Phoenix. Beautiful house, beautiful view, scary-ass 42° driveway. Warm, clear, sunshine. No winter in sight.

Sigh.

I truly hope you're all doing well. What's up for your respective weekends?

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[annathepiper]

Writing like a mad writing thing, friends coming over for video gaming, and BATTLESTAR! ^_^

[hms42]

Glad to hear that you made it there safely...

As for weekend... Backing up the filk directory on the hard drive (too many tapes not backed up yet), computer show (maybe), getting the ebay sales shipped, watching your Cds on Ebay (seeing how much people want to pay for in print CDs.)....

In other words, relaxing! :)

Have a good time with your family, Tom.

A few weeks from now, it would be a response of running Lunacon '06 or I-Con 25.

Harold S.

[filkerdave.livejournal.com]

scary-ass 42° driveway

What's the temperature on the rest of the property?

[filkertom.livejournal.com]

I knew it, I just knew someone would do that....

(Heh. Low 80s.)

[bald-ruminant.livejournal.com]

Are those degrees Celsius, Fahrenheit, Rankine, Réaumur, Newton, Rømer, or Delisle?

[shockwave77598.livejournal.com]

Finish a story for the Anthrocon conbook, work on the lawn if weather permits (it's a mess!) and get some development time in on my Xmas 2006 light system. I also have to stay home and watch the kids while my wife is studying for tests at her college.

[ericthemage.livejournal.com]

Finding some low or zero VOC paint to paint our cabinets. A very mobile 1 year old necessitates rearranging the house in a major way, so projects that have been dormant are now top priority.

[ericthemage.livejournal.com]

Kelvin.

[wcg.livejournal.com]

Is there anything more than a truck stop in Eloy?

Wish I were there in Arizona too Tom. It'd be lovely.

[folkmew.livejournal.com]

Yo baybeee! Didja know my mom lives in Tuscon now? We should organize a joint trip one of these days! :-)

(er - yeah if I *ever* get to go visit her - it's hard with tickets being so expensive and us needing four sigh)

[sdelmonte]

Family stuff, most of it happy.

But wouldn't you know it? There's finally a big deal comic book convention in NYC, and there's no way in heck I can get to any of it. Ah well. Maybe next year.

[kshandra]

jilesa lived in Mesa when dafydd and I first got involved with her; we each had the chances to visit, and loved it. If you have the time, drive up to Scottsdale and have a chocolate tamale at Los Sombreros.

[darthparadox.livejournal.com]

That's actually how I parsed it at first, until I went back and reread the bit about Phoenix... Of course, it's 41 F here at the moment, so it seemed a perfectly normal temperature, if a bit odd to be specifically mentioning the driveway.

Anyway, my weekend involves helping my girlfriend move, and hopefully a gaming party. Whee.

MSC stuff

[pickledcritter.livejournal.com]

Well, since MidSouthCon is now exactly 4 weeks away the ConComm is starting "crunch time" and I've got different subcommittee meetings all throughout the weekend (and the next, and the next, etc).

[bald-ruminant.livejournal.com]

The Kelvin scale isn't measured in degrees. It's units are Kelvins.

[wouldyoueva.livejournal.com]

I'm being lobbied to take teenagers tubing at Ski Liberty and (ack!) to join them. On one hand, everytime I tube, I end up hurting my knees, OTOH, they're about as bad as they can get, how much worse could they be?

[partiallyclips.livejournal.com]

I can't believe what I am doing this weekend, actually. Tonight I am finally going to start recording vocals and mixing tracks with some of those fine backups you provided.

Then, tomorrow morning by 7 AM...I have to be in Baltimore, so I can hook up with a ride to Comic Con in NYC. There, I will get to see the galley proofs for Attitude 3 and have a beer with Ted Rall. And then I will return the same day.

Then, Sunday, a family gathering. And somewhere in there I will have to write, lay out, and load, at least two comic strips. N'arrrrgh!!!

[pbrim.livejournal.com]

Going to CONDFW. I'm taking my 11 year old niece, a budding fan, to her first ever con. She's still at the point of being thrilled that there other people who think about what happened after the story ended, or want to make up their own songs and stories set in these worlds.

[ericthemage.livejournal.com]

Sorry. At 42 Kelvins it's too cold to think straight.

[dubheach.livejournal.com]

Running around like a chicken without a head working on stuff for dad, passport, and church. Other than that I've got a ton of free time.

[kightp.livejournal.com]

A visit from my sweetie. Who cares if it's cold?

[sarekofvulcan.livejournal.com]

Most probably, sitting around with the girls while Donna heads over to Third Place to study all weekend. If I had any money whatsoever, I'd think about taking them down to Soundbridge, but that will have to wait until a financially-more-auspicious occasion.

(Besides, last time I took the girls to Seattle by myself, I had a migraine attack. But I can't let that stop me, right? :-) )

[dr-zrfq.livejournal.com]

Well, aside from a possible lightning trip to Williamsburg and back (tonight thru tomorrow lunchtime), I expect there to be much gaming and good company Saturday afternoon/evening, singing in church Sunday morning, and who knows what for after that.

[filkerdave.livejournal.com]

He didn't specify F or C, of course, and 41F seems reasonable to me (having never been there)

[filkerdave.livejournal.com]

With 42 Kelvins, we could also have 42 Hobbses

[sunfell.livejournal.com]

Cleaning the house for a Pampered Chef party is what is in store for my weekend.

Hey- saw your name in the latest "Wired" issue. I wrote about it in my blog! (http://sunfell.livejournal.com/708257.html?mode=reply)

You're FAMOUS!

[ladymer.livejournal.com]

But to get them, we'd need 42 sandwiches. And what do you do when you catch 42 tigers?

[youngcurmudgeon.livejournal.com]

Well, since tigers know everything, clearly you'd have the meaning of life 42 times over.

[daundelyon.livejournal.com]

That's a lot of Monty Python to sit through at one go.

[sylverwolfe.livejournal.com]

i've got a weekend full of work ahead of me, as well as trying to figure out the complpexities of human behavior and trying to find a good pattern to make a harley quinn costume for a friend of mine. glad you're getting a chance to relax in the warmth.
got to read that wired article. did a dance of fannish glee in the magazine section of my store. heh.

[shadowriderhope.livejournal.com]

*poke poke* Still need some sax? :)

Congrats on starting to record! And good luck with the rest of it.

[ericthemage.livejournal.com]

Found the paint at Sherwin Williams. $33/gallon on sale for zero VOC paint. :)

[capt-video.livejournal.com]

Working. Of course, after the longest out of work stint in my life, it feels pretty good! Plus, it's a fun place to work and weekends are the best chance to make good bonuses.

[partiallyclips.livejournal.com]

It's looking like I won't. But thanks for standing by. It would have been great. But since I could not travel to record, Tom helped me out with backing tracks remotely.

I haven't heard a thing from PenguiCon btw and so it's looking like maybe I will skip it and go to RavenCon that weekend. They dangled a carrot for me in December, then radio silence. Kinda torques me, because I really like the con, but they're not the only penguin on the ice floe. If that happens, I guess it will be a while before we cross paths again. :(

[shadowriderhope.livejournal.com]

Oh, that sucks re: Penguicon. :-( I could try poking them for you, if you like - I know many of the concom.

And I'll be happy to sax for you another time, if you need it on future releases. :)

[partiallyclips.livejournal.com]

Hey that couldn't hurt at all. I WANT to go to PenguiCon, but as I told Matt and Bill when they were wooing me at PhilCon; I also WANT to go to RavenCon. A lot. So they mentioned they might find Nifty status and/or lodging for me to tip the scales in their favor and I said, yeah, that would swing it their way. But aside from one email in January I have not heard a thing.

If you feel like sounding them out for me, then I'd be grateful. Maybe we can make it happen yet. Thanks.

[shadowriderhope.livejournal.com]

Would you mind forwarding me the message from January? That would give me a good jumping off point. :) Send to hope.dundas@umich.edu.

If they can't come up with lodging for you, we could probably work something out - I'm always looking for ways to cut costs, and haven't figured out rooming arrangements yet.

[partiallyclips.livejournal.com]

It's gone. I have what I sent them but not their reply. I must have read it on webmail and not at home.

Anyway, I got a generic email on a different account offering that ridiculous "reduced fee badge" for program participants. (I wish they could understand how insulting that is. There must be another way to squeeze 3-400 bucks out of the con without gouging the people who make it happen. I go to about 25 different cons and they are the only ones who do that. It's bollocks.)

If that's all they're offering, I am going to RavenCon. I'll send one more email in and let Matt know how it looks from my end and see if he cares to do anything about it. I think you're off the hook.