{"id":15246,"date":"2016-03-28T11:36:00","date_gmt":"2016-03-28T18:36:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kith.org\/journals\/jed\/2016\/03\/28\/15246.html"},"modified":"2016-03-28T11:36:00","modified_gmt":"2016-03-28T18:36:00","slug":"assorted-updates-10","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/2016\/03\/28\/assorted-updates-10\/","title":{"rendered":"Assorted updates"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I feel like there are dozens of things I want to post here, but I have a lot of time-sensitive day-job work to do today, and several time-sensitive non-day-job tasks, so a summary will have to do.<\/p>\n<ul>\n  <li>Am making progress on my reading-unread-books project, but over the weekend I went to <a href=\"http:\/\/bookbuyers.com\">BookBuyers<\/a> because they're having a big sale (up to 50% off on all books) because they're either closing or moving soon, and I ended up buying about 35 books, most of which I haven't read before. Counterproductive! Oh, well.<\/li>\n  <li>Making progress on old-family-photo-digitizing-and-organizing project, but very slowly.<\/li>\n  <li>Acquired new Space Black Milanese Loop band for my Apple Watch. So pretty! And sparkly in the sunshine!<\/li>\n  <li>Three days from now, Tesla will start taking pre-orders for the Model 3. I expect to spend most of my morning in line.<\/li>\n  <li>For once, I'm not feeling particularly in need of doing anything birthdayish. Am planning to stay home tonight, maybe watch a movie, maybe just try to make progress on various projects.<\/li>\n  <li>Saw Kam over the weekend, played cards with my brother and sister-in-law and her family on Saturday, met a couple of super-cool new folks on Friday, will be playing boardgames with Lori et al tomorrow night.<\/li>\n  <li>Watched <cite>Mockingjay<\/cite> parts 1 and 2 with Kam. Am reading <cite>The Difference Engine<\/cite>. Have started watching <cite>The Wire<\/cite>.<\/li>\n  <li>Have ordered a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.usbtypewriter.com\/\">USB\/Bluetooth typewriter<\/a>; should arrive in a couple weeks, I think. (Update: It shipped today! So I imagine it'll arrive within the next week.) Am hoping to soon order a couple of new bookcases, including one for display of typewriters and other tchotchkes.<\/li>\n  <li>Haven't even started working on taxes yet.<\/li>\n  <li>Haven't even started working on Hugo nomination ballot yet.<\/li>\n  <li>Haven't even started working on filling out WisCon programming form yet.<\/li>\n  <li>Failed to post last week's <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kith.org\/journals\/jed\/pages\/strange_horizons_flashbacks.html\"><cite>Strange Horizons<\/cite> Flashback<\/a> story, and not sure when I'll get a chance to post that or this week's. Maybe will work on that tonight.<\/li>\n  <li>As of Friday, I had found homes for about 150 of my 400 giveaway books, after a couple weeks of posting lists of books; then I posted to the free-stuff mailing list at work and got a deluge of requests, resulting in another 150 or so being taken in a couple hours. I still have about 100 left to give away (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.kith.org\/journals\/jed\/2016\/03\/22\/15241.html\">mass-market paperbacks<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kith.org\/journals\/jed\/2016\/03\/23\/15243.html\">trade paperbacks and hardcovers<\/a>); those may go to a library book sale, or, if I can convince my neighborhood HOA, into a Little Free Library. We'll see.<\/li>\n  <li>Am not making any progress on fiction, alas.<\/li>\n  <li>Design for a Constellation Press logo is in progress; I really love the latest mockups. After the logo is done, maybe I'll even make some progress on other plans for the press. We'll see.<\/li>\n  <li>Have been helping Mary Anne get her <a href=\"http:\/\/www.maryannemohanraj.com\/\">new site<\/a> up and running; in particular, wrote code to export 9,000 journal entries (plus comments) from her old journal, and imported them into WordPress using the <a href=\"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/plugins\/csv-importer-improved\/\">CSV Importer Improved<\/a> plugin. I'm a little sad to see the end of the homebrew blogging system I wrote for her long and long ago; but WordPress is a whole lot more robust and featureful. I was particularly pleased to discover that the old comments imported into WP now automatically show pictures in the case of commenters who have Gravatar avatars. Nifty.<\/li>\n  <li>Had a run of five or six very social weekends in a row, and more to come soon; may spend next weekend alone at home to recharge.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Many of those items deserve full posts, but I'm out of time. Thanks for all the birthday wishes, everyone! And happy birthday to my co-birthdayites Jess, David, Theo, and Wendy.<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I feel like there are dozens of things I want to post here, but I have a lot of time-sensitive&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,19,29,26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15246","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-birthdays","category-books","category-life-updates","category-strange-horizons"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15246","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15246"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15246\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15246"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15246"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15246"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}