Finished Chapter Six
Characters – 50 / 61 Characters – 82% Done
Construction – 22 / 40 Constructions – 55% Done
Art – 64 / 217 Pages – 29% Done
Production Total – 43% Done
Estimated Completion Date: June 5th, 2011
Finished Chapter Six
Characters – 50 / 61 Characters – 82% Done
Construction – 22 / 40 Constructions – 55% Done
Art – 64 / 217 Pages – 29% Done
Production Total – 43% Done
Estimated Completion Date: June 5th, 2011
Lissa started the phase of treatment called “Delayed Intensification” yesterday. I hope she sails through it with the same flying colors she did all the earlier phases. Along with the spinal tap and other tests they gave her three different kinds of “chemo”, which meant another fairly long day, (left home at 7:20 and got home at 2:40). I started getting an ear-ache on wednesday, but because of spending most of yesterday in the hospital with Lissa, didn’t manage to see my own doctor so he could take a look until today. (Better him looking than me — he said the ear canal is completely swollen up and covered with pus — sounds icky!)
Lissa has two appointments at the clinic next week, plus she’s due to have her teeth cleaned. Poor kid. It never rains but it pours.
I decided I needed to do some website stuff today, most particularly to fix the glossary page for Cantata in Coral and Ivory and Pavane in Pearl and Emerald. It had buttons showing that theoretically allowed you to view entries by first letter (which I thought people might appreciate since the entire glossary at once makes for a very long page and a lot of scrolling). Unfortunately the buttons didn’t actually do anything. While I was in there mucking around with the code fixing that, I gave the selections persistence, so that you could go from the ‘G’ page for Cantata to the ‘K’ page for Cantata (or whatever), without having to reselect Cantata again each time.
I also hunted down an image of the cover of the Dragon Magazine I got published in.
And then I starting working on the fun version of the Coral Palace Horoscopes, which is going to take me much longer to get finished than I anticipated. If I base horoscopes on a comparison of which house the moon is in now, as compared to where it was when you were born, and there are 23 houses, that’s 23 possible horoscopes… So far, so good… but that’s just for you. Other people out there will have been born with the moon in a different house… 23 times 23… 529. And, of course, there are 4 moons… 2116 needed horoscope bits.
Why am I doing this again?
Oh, yeah. Because it’s fun.
If Bildhomor the moonchild resided in the house of Cader the Sea Beast when you were born, then today is a good day to give someone an unexpected gift for a reason that you refuse to explain. But if Bildhomor was in the house of Cucmori the Swimming Bird, then today is instead a good day to wander about looking mysterious.
Everything you need to do to become a successful Coral Palace Courtier is written in the sky. Become a patron of the Coral Palace Astrologer and you too can become polished, superficial and snide.
::very big evil grin::
On the Seventeenth of October… that would be Friday, no? … someone apparently stopped by my website and liked it so much that they viewed 150 pages worth of it.
I didn’t even know I had 150 pages.
Well, okay, if you include the Black Flag and Scent of Spring “rough draft” versions, I have easily triple that, but those are password protected, and remained unseen.
I guess maybe 5 years worth of intermittent online journaling adds up to that much?
Either that, or they got lost and wandered around in circles.
(The websearch engines out there think I have far more than 150 pages, btw, even though they can’t get at Black Flag or Scent of Spring either. They think I have thousands of pages. This is because I have posted dynamically created perpetual calendars for two of my worlds, and their webcrawling spidersbots waste countless hours trying to catalog the entirety of those calendars. Every once in a while I feel somewhat guilty about this, and wonder if I ought to inform all inquiring robots that if they’ve seen one year’s worth they’ve seen all they really need to, but I haven’t got around to it yet, and the poor things are too dumb to figure it out for themselves.)
I just finished page 60. 🙂
Characters – 49 / 61 Characters – 80% Done
Construction – 21 / 40 Constructions – 53% Done
Art – 60 / 217 Pages – 28% Done
Production Total – 41% Done
Estimated Completion Date: June 11th, 2011
Wednesday night we got a call telling us that although they had scheduled us for a clinic visit, it was a mistake, and Lissa was actually due for another spinal tap. Fortunately I had an opportunity to pick her up some new and very nifty dry-erase markers to use on her dry-erase board, to distract her from the unfairness of that particular change of plans.
So yesterday morning, brand new markers packed away in her backpack, we headed into town through fog so thick that I accidentally turned off the highway onto an on ramp at one point. Fortunately nobody uses that on ramp in the morning, and I had no probablem getting turned around and back on track. The fog caused quite a few traffic delays on the way there, and we were 20 minutes late. Then, after we finally got there there, we had to wait for two younger kids to have their procedures first, so it ended up being our second longest wait to date.
(Lissa says she likes the generic term ‘procedure’ much better than official ‘lumbar puncture’ which is too hard to remember, or the colloquial ‘spinal tap’ which sounds too scary.)
As usual the waiting was the worst part. Lissa and I ate at the Hospital Cafeteria afterwards, and she even got to play in on the playground in the courtyard for a bit. Traffic ran so smoothly on the way back that Lissa was considerably startled to look up from her drawing recognize the turn-off to home.
She’s gotten quite used to taking medications and is very well behaved about it all, but we’ve got six different bottles with stuff going right now, all being handed out on a different schedule, and I’m finding it a bit of a challenge to keep track of them all.
::rueful grin::
This, apparently, is what the Official Award Certificate looks like.
For over a year now, whenever something came up that made me mention the Opera Magique world, I claimed that I was not working on it. Well, I think I’m going to have to stop trying to fool myself… several weeks ago I started collecting reading materials, and I spent this morning starting a rewrite of the history of Europe from about 1400 onward.
I think that qualifies as ‘working on it’. 🙂
I have completed page 50 of Brotherhood of the Black Flag, Volume One: Flag in Flames.
I also discovered that the equation I was using to calculate my progress was flawed, so I fixed it, programmed the new improved version into the Black Flag Home Page and I am pleased to announce that according to the new improved equation, Black Flag production is no longer behind… in fact, in this latest flurry of page production, I seem to have got about a month ahead.  Yay!
On Sunday afternoon we were hit with extremely high winds. Â Possibly the worst windstorm the power company had ever encountered, according to their power outage hotline. Â Part of the back fence blew down. Â Nearly half of the tree in the front yard toppled over, and we lost our power for about 48 hours (about a million other people in this general vicinity also lost power.)
The tree hit only lawn, the back fence likewise, none of us were hurt, the kids found being home for two days with no computers and no video games boooorrrrinnnng, and all in all we managed to avoid that ‘ancient chinese curse’ rather ably.  🙂