Home from Worldcon

[hrj]

I got home this morning (train from Seattle arrived around 8am, local buses got me to within half a block of home in another hour and a half). I'm feeling totally wrung out, so I'm not planning to be productive today. There's a relatively brief con report on my blog, including a slightly modified version of what would have been my Hugo acceptance speech (I changed the "win" bits to "finalist" bits) and a couple pictures. You can read it here: https://alpennia.com/blog/worldcon-wrap

I'd meant to get some sound editing for the podcast done on the train, but couldn't find a way to make Audible play through headphones rather than speakers, so that was a no-go. (The program has a selection menu for sound output, but I need to play with it to figure out what's wrong.) Instead, I managed to be productive by working on the lesbian history book. (I.e., converting existing material into book-version material.) I have most of the Introduction section revised at this point.

I have a week and a half and then it's my "official" celebrating retirement trip to New Zealand with Denise. That means I need to get two more podcast episodes uploaded. I also had to reschedule the Jury Duty notice that was waiting for me when I got home. And I won't be here to provide medical transport for my brother's cataract operation. But before I travel, I need to get the inspections sorted out for my solar system, including pulling retrospective permits for a couple of items that the city inspector asked about. (I've been assured that this will be trivial paperwork.) So I'm going to try not to add any other to-do items before the trip.

Comments

[threadwalker]

Bookings are booked! Yay!

It looks like rain everyday from Friday through the end of next week. I'm packing 2 rain hats. yay! Adventure.

[hawkwing_lb]

You're definitely busy!

[hrj]

I keep getting hit by "how did I ever manage this when I was doing a day-job?"

[hawkwing_lb]

Rigorous organisation?

[hrj]

A partial answer is that many of my activities are expandable to fit the time available. Previously, they were more compressed. But another part is that I'm taking more leisure time currently. So that's taking up some of the space that work used to fill.