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Still here, but making progress
Well, we're still in Sydney and, unfortunately, will be for another week. The settlement on our new house got postponed a week because the current owners aren't able to move into their new house yet.
It sucks. It sucked even more when we were first told - another month! that's like a lifetime away! - but it has actually given us a little more time to get sorted with the move. You always get to that last day before moving and discover all those little, annoying, fiddly bit that you haven't packed yet. And then, you spend you last night not getting any sleep because your trying to pack all that crap somewhere before the moving truck arrives. Well, we're now at the day before we were supposed to move... and all with got to pack are those little, annoying, fiddly bits! Now we've got another week to sort that stuff instead of 24 hours. That's comforting, but probably so comforting that we'll do absolutely nothing about it until next Thursday.
The extra time has also meant I've had time to catch up on some work and tidy that aspect of my life away before I move. I've been working through most of the night ('til about 4am) and then back up again at 8am to get the kids ready for school. If it is too hot (like it is getting today) I might try and have a nap in the afternoon once I've picked the boys up. But once they're home, and dinner is cooked and eaten, and we've sent the blighters off to bed, it is back to work again most nights.
I re-typeset the CSFG Masques anthology from scratch last night in an InDesign typesetting frenzy, and Aurealis 42 is nearly done too. I've finished the new AussieCon 4 website and, once the content is complete, it will go live early next week. There will be a brand-new look to the GoodReading magazine website sometime next week too. That's a huge chunk out of my To-Do list. It doesn't complete it - nowhere near it! - but it is enough progress to make me feel like I'm actually getting somewhere.
By Wednesday I should be able to concentrate on nothing but moving my family and our belongings to a house that is ours, and not some dodgy landlord who drives a brand-new Mercedes but can't afford to fix a window on his property that has been smashed for over 3 months! Good bye Jerzei Balowski, we won't be missing you!
It sucks. It sucked even more when we were first told - another month! that's like a lifetime away! - but it has actually given us a little more time to get sorted with the move. You always get to that last day before moving and discover all those little, annoying, fiddly bit that you haven't packed yet. And then, you spend you last night not getting any sleep because your trying to pack all that crap somewhere before the moving truck arrives. Well, we're now at the day before we were supposed to move... and all with got to pack are those little, annoying, fiddly bits! Now we've got another week to sort that stuff instead of 24 hours. That's comforting, but probably so comforting that we'll do absolutely nothing about it until next Thursday.
The extra time has also meant I've had time to catch up on some work and tidy that aspect of my life away before I move. I've been working through most of the night ('til about 4am) and then back up again at 8am to get the kids ready for school. If it is too hot (like it is getting today) I might try and have a nap in the afternoon once I've picked the boys up. But once they're home, and dinner is cooked and eaten, and we've sent the blighters off to bed, it is back to work again most nights.
I re-typeset the CSFG Masques anthology from scratch last night in an InDesign typesetting frenzy, and Aurealis 42 is nearly done too. I've finished the new AussieCon 4 website and, once the content is complete, it will go live early next week. There will be a brand-new look to the GoodReading magazine website sometime next week too. That's a huge chunk out of my To-Do list. It doesn't complete it - nowhere near it! - but it is enough progress to make me feel like I'm actually getting somewhere.
By Wednesday I should be able to concentrate on nothing but moving my family and our belongings to a house that is ours, and not some dodgy landlord who drives a brand-new Mercedes but can't afford to fix a window on his property that has been smashed for over 3 months! Good bye Jerzei Balowski, we won't be missing you!
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I just got my proofreader back and she's discovered a couple more things.
I hope that (when the date is finally sorted) you can get to Canberra for the launch.
Yes, I am almost making sense. Isn't that an improvement? I got an hour's sleep then everything became too hot and I started having typesetting nightmares. This is because I'm stil in novel copy-edit mode (Ventura, not InDesign, in case you were wondering.) and will be for a while longer.
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