I have plenty of things I should be doing, and yet I keep thinking it would be fun to learn to play the ukulele.

Learning a few chords on the guitar would be much more useful. You might as well offer me salsa when I want chocolate.

I am feeling almost procrastinatey enough to start cleaning the house. But not quite.

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1) There doesn't seem to be a decent Android app for reading or posting to LiveJournal. LJing in the browser is a bit messy, and I don't seem to be spending much time with the computer at home. But I'm trying to catch up with what you've been doing, honest.

That said, if you want me to know something or answer something, e-mail me. If you don't have my e-mail address, comment here. If I don't have your address, leave it in disguised form in the comments so you don't get spammed.

2) I'm buying a house. It seemed like a good idea at the time, but I'm having my doubts.

3) Viable Paradise 15 has opened for submissions, so there's been some work for me on that end of things. Jay Lake and Sherwood Smith are replacing John Scalzi and Laura Mixon, and I think I'd pay to hear them sit around and critique the phone book. (Too many characters, not enough plot, they would probably say.)

4) The job continues. Some of my co-workers who had been chilly to me have warmed up. Maybe it's the weather. I think my biggest problem right now is figuring out which skills I should spend my time getting better at.

5) My travel schedule for the year is VP15 in early October, probably Worldcon Reno in August, and probably World Fantasy San Diego in late October. I had planned to travel to Austin next month on business, but that looks like a bad idea now because of house stuff. If I can work it out, I'll take one or two trips for work some time this year (they've been good about approving training travel), but they probably won't be to Exciting Destinations like, uh, wherever you live.

One of these to scan all of my books currently in storage, a Nook to put the books on, and an Oompa Loompa to do that fiddly bit in between.

I think I could mock up something suitable for the lights and cameras, using boom or gooseneck microphone stands. The platen and the adjustable cradle, though -- not sure I understand them well enough yet, though.

Flying to Boston this afternoon for Viable Paradise 14.

Will probably post short observations during the workshop on Twitter, as @MrPersimmon. If I collect them and drop them into LJ as a daily-or-so post, I'll try to keep it as unobnoxious as possible for Twitter hatred.

I'll read all comments here and will try to respond as best I can. I expect it will be mostly on my phone, and I haven't seen a good LJ app for Android.

As will be apparent in any photos, I seem to have acquired a beard. (Voidmonster, you have no competition from this direction.)

Who hasn't dreamt of seeing the National Roller Skating Museum in Lincoln, Nebraska? I hope I'll have time.

For now, my flight is delayed in Chicago-O'Hare, known (by me, at least) for its terrible food choices. Let's hope I find something better than the Manchu Wok.

I miss John Scalvi.

I swear I was thinking about getting a Droid X before Scalzi got his.

Lincoln's Sword by Doyle and Macdonald is at my Barnes & Noble!

Courtesy of Mary Robinette Kowal and sartorias.

How could Mark Twain have been so, so wrong about Jane Austen? She makes almost any mash-up better.