12 June 1998: The Home Stretch

Friday, 12 June 1998:

The Home Stretch

Have you ever noticed how before you go on vacation you spend three days frantically running around trying to tie everything up? Boy, what a busy week!

However, I think I've finished up everything I wanted to finish. I got the project at work nearly to completion, and it became clear this morning that it would spill over into tomorrow anyway. It went remarkably smoothly considering the magnitude of the project and the sharp time limit. And it's a good thing to build on for our next regular release.

I finished up an APAzine tonight, did some cleaning, played with the cats, and even went for a walk. It's quite cool out, but also pretty darned humid since it rained again late this afternoon.

So I guess I'm as ready for my vacation as I'll ever be. I even remembered to get my hair cut and to hold my mail and newspapers while I'm gone.

We had our monthly book discussion last night, and it was Michael Swanwick's Jack Faust. One woman truly loathed this book, feeling it had almost no redeeming features whatsoever. I didn't think it was that bad, but it's certainly the weakest of the three books I've read by him. No one in the group was really bowled over by it.

Nonetheless, I have a couple of Swanwick books - Stations of the Tide and the collection A Geography of Unknown Lands - to read while on vacation.

Likely I won't be doing entries while I'm away, so I leave you with two parting ~~shots~~ thoughts. First is a puzzle. What is the next number in this sequence of whole numbers?

1
11
21
1211

The trick, of course, is not just to guess the next number, but to explain how the sequence works. I'll reveal the answer when I get back. (Feel free to send me your guesses.)

Second is a quote a friend sent me that he'd glommed from a .sig on the net:

You couldn't get a clue during the clue mating season in a field full of horny clues if you smeared your body with clue musk and did the clue mating dance.

See you when I get back!

Michael Rawdon (Contact)