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edenfalling1. Yesterday my work schedule was a little interesting. See, currently we have seven people working at the smoke shop. AO is not available, because she has been down in Philly with Josh while he's in the hospital recovering from his car crash. (He is off the ventilator now, incidentally, and has moved his head and all four limbs, but he still has some kind of tube in his throat which is interfering with his efforts to vocalize. I think they did more surgery on his arms a couple days ago.)
Of the remaining employees, JM does not work past 2pm, because she needs to be home to take care of her young son. MS does not open or close. And PM has been down at the Arnot Mall to supervise the madness as our outlet is closed and all its stock packed up and sent elsewhere. This means only BW, RE, and I can close the store.
On Tuesday, BW was working 7am-4pm and I was working 9am-6pm. So when RE suddenly couldn't close on Tuesday, because of a family thing, this was a problem. What ended up happening is that he clocked in around 11:30 and worked until 5pm, while I clocked out, went home to eat lunch and take a nap, and came back at 3:35 and worked until 9pm. PM was annoyed and told RE to call beforehand in the future -- either at night, or early in the morning -- since this could have been handled by a simple shift swap between him and me or him and BW.
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2. Years and years ago -- I think in late 2000 or early 2001 -- I read a book by Allen L. Wold, called Jewels of the Dragon, which is sort of sci-fi space opera crossed with Indiana Jones and also a criminal conspiracy thriller. The idea is that Rikard Braeth, the son of a famous gentleman adventurer/criminal/space pirate, is searching for his lost father and tracks him down to the lawless planet Kohltri, where he finds himself inadvertently plunged into both an archaeological mystery and the long-running search for an infamous interstellar terrorist. It is made of crack and awesome, like all the best adventure novels, and I love it passionately -- to the point where I used to amuse myself by imagining future adventures for the main character and one of the chief secondary charcters.
Today I discovered that Wold actually wrote two sequels! Now, granted, they seem to only follow Rikard Braeth -- Darcy Glemtide, sadly, seems to fall out of his life after he leaves Kohltri -- but still. Sequels! The second book is apparently called Crown of the Serpent, and I need to find a copy. The third book is called Lair of the Cyclops, and is the reason I know there are sequels at all; I spotted it this evening in Autumn Leaves used bookstore, and promptly snapped it up.
If the second two books are as fun as the first, I may have to nominate this series as an option for Yuletide this year. :-)
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3. Three months after RemixRedux, I am finally distant enough from my story that I am able to go back and start touching up What Isn't Broken (Can Still Be Fixed), both to fix some typos and phrasing oddities, and to work in more foreshadowing and development for the NaruSasu plot thread, so their eventual kiss feels less pasted on.
In the process, I have also tidied up "With a Vengeance" and "More Sins Than Condemnation," and intend to post them on ff.net and AO3 as well. The question is whether to post them as supplementary chapters or as a collection of sidestories, the way I have done with my "Apartment Manager" sidestories. At the moment, I am leaning toward supplementary chapters, if only to connect them more firmly to the original oneshot.
Of the remaining employees, JM does not work past 2pm, because she needs to be home to take care of her young son. MS does not open or close. And PM has been down at the Arnot Mall to supervise the madness as our outlet is closed and all its stock packed up and sent elsewhere. This means only BW, RE, and I can close the store.
On Tuesday, BW was working 7am-4pm and I was working 9am-6pm. So when RE suddenly couldn't close on Tuesday, because of a family thing, this was a problem. What ended up happening is that he clocked in around 11:30 and worked until 5pm, while I clocked out, went home to eat lunch and take a nap, and came back at 3:35 and worked until 9pm. PM was annoyed and told RE to call beforehand in the future -- either at night, or early in the morning -- since this could have been handled by a simple shift swap between him and me or him and BW.
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2. Years and years ago -- I think in late 2000 or early 2001 -- I read a book by Allen L. Wold, called Jewels of the Dragon, which is sort of sci-fi space opera crossed with Indiana Jones and also a criminal conspiracy thriller. The idea is that Rikard Braeth, the son of a famous gentleman adventurer/criminal/space pirate, is searching for his lost father and tracks him down to the lawless planet Kohltri, where he finds himself inadvertently plunged into both an archaeological mystery and the long-running search for an infamous interstellar terrorist. It is made of crack and awesome, like all the best adventure novels, and I love it passionately -- to the point where I used to amuse myself by imagining future adventures for the main character and one of the chief secondary charcters.
Today I discovered that Wold actually wrote two sequels! Now, granted, they seem to only follow Rikard Braeth -- Darcy Glemtide, sadly, seems to fall out of his life after he leaves Kohltri -- but still. Sequels! The second book is apparently called Crown of the Serpent, and I need to find a copy. The third book is called Lair of the Cyclops, and is the reason I know there are sequels at all; I spotted it this evening in Autumn Leaves used bookstore, and promptly snapped it up.
If the second two books are as fun as the first, I may have to nominate this series as an option for Yuletide this year. :-)
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3. Three months after RemixRedux, I am finally distant enough from my story that I am able to go back and start touching up What Isn't Broken (Can Still Be Fixed), both to fix some typos and phrasing oddities, and to work in more foreshadowing and development for the NaruSasu plot thread, so their eventual kiss feels less pasted on.
In the process, I have also tidied up "With a Vengeance" and "More Sins Than Condemnation," and intend to post them on ff.net and AO3 as well. The question is whether to post them as supplementary chapters or as a collection of sidestories, the way I have done with my "Apartment Manager" sidestories. At the moment, I am leaning toward supplementary chapters, if only to connect them more firmly to the original oneshot.
