Preparations for Operation Thunderdome

[truepenny]

Tomorrow, I am off to the prairie, where I and Corambis will reenact Thunderdome (two men enter, one man leaves) for the edification and entertainment of heresluck and her cats. This blog will enter radio silence at that time, normal service to resume on or after March 25th.

(Everyone who's here for the Due South posts, yes, I will most definitely resume after the hiatus. Depending on how things go today, I might even get "The Edge" watched and written up before I leave, but don't hold your breath.)

This is a complicated undertaking (it's the longest I've been away from home since 1996, when I spent six weeks in Greece), and I've decided it needs a to do list and a to pack list, so as I do not forget to pack, for instance, MY HEAD.



1. laundry.
2. find WP 12 install disks.
3. install same on laptop. consult with mirrorthaw when he gets home about why the installer does not want to play nicely with the internets.
4. remove wireless card from laptop. (Yes, going all-but-cold-turkey on the internets until the book is done. No, this probably won't be pretty.)
5. box o' stuff for Bear
5. replenish toiletries in travel kit (tomorrow, when have car)
6. go to bank (ditto)
7. go to post office (ditto)
8. LUNCH!
9. oh god. Remember to put text directory on flash drive, so as to HAVE THE FILES.
10. chop the necessary pills. Much more efficient than packing the pill guillotine.
11. send final version of "Dexterity" to Shadow Unit posse.
12. inform editor of Operation Thunderdome
13. ditto agent.
14. ditto family.
15. set up forwarding from all email accounts to gmail account.
16. burn backup CD.
17. tidy desk.
18. fold more paper cranes for Catzilla
19. print ms thus far.


1. pills
2. eye-bag sheep
3. Islandia (which seems to me like the perfect book for this occasion: enormous, interesting, but not exactly a gripping page-turner)
4. plush Cthulhu (Bear said: Go with God. I said: May I choose which god?)
5. Iron-Jawed Angels (for watching with heresluck)
6. BPAL (since I am going from heresluck to elisem and Minicon)
7. charger for cellphone
8. KEYBOARD
9. slippers
10. bathrobe
11. typing gloves and glove liners
12. next Moleskine (on p. 108v of current notebook)
13. ink!
14. FLASH DRIVE. Also WP install disks, just in case.
15. printout of ms

Comments

safe journeys...

[themadblonde]

& a happy, fulfilling, & productive time to you.

[scribblemoose]

Just to wish you the best of luck with your forthcoming battle! Hoping it's enjoyable as well as productive. :)

[michaeldthomas.livejournal.com]

Good luck!

[panjianlien.livejournal.com]

Strength to your arm. I will be thinking good writing thoughts at you.

And there will be Man Ray to look forward to when you get home!

[truepenny.livejournal.com]

Ooooh. Thank you!

[davidlevine]

Ganbatte!!!

[lferion]

Sends all kinds of good writing and creating vibes.

I love that the plushy-Cthulhu is your travelling god of choice :-)

[pameladean]

Good luck in your endeavors. I just finished The Mirador and adored it. It's very claustrophobic and inward-twining, both in physical spaces and mental ones, as I'm sure you intended. I am extremely fond of Mehitabel and loved the bits about the theater, most of which cracked me up repeatedly. Watching F and M wrestle with themselves was less amusing but quite gripping. Thank you.

P.

[truepenny.livejournal.com]

Thank you!

[gerbilicous.livejournal.com]

I felt exactly the same way! I love the feeling of creeping down dark corridors the book gives me when I'm reading it. I actually don't read the Melusine books out in the open, it just feels wrong, somehow. I have to be tucked away in my tiny reading room to really get the right feeling.

On a separate note, all throughout the book I kept yelling at my husband "Oh no! Poor Mildmay!" Seriously, the poor, poor man can not catch a break. I've never felt so much for a fictional character. It would make a terrible book, but I'd love to see Mildmay have an awesome day, just once, where everything goes his way.

I'm on pins and needles waiting for book 4, much good luck for your epic edit! I can't wait to read it! (That's not commenter lip service, I CAN NOT wait. Seriously.)

Also, since this is THUNDER DOME, who gets to be Tina Turner? Dr. Monette or Felix?

[saltypepper.livejournal.com]

Good luck with Operation Thunderdome! My money's on you!

[smills47.livejournal.com]

Luck!

[liminalia.livejournal.com]

I do hope you attend the BPAL meet & sniff at Wiscon too!

[matociquala.livejournal.com]

The internet and all your imaginary friends will be here when you get back.

*loff*

[oracne.livejournal.com]

Good luck!

You who are about to--

[coffeeandink.livejournal.com]

Good luck!

at the risk of sounding pretentious...

[rarelylynne.livejournal.com]

bonne chance!

...and save all that paper! :)

[fidelioscabinet.livejournal.com]

Good luck! Here's hoping Catzilla does not run too far amok while you're gone.

[heresluck]

I will let you look at LOLcats, so you don't have to go completely cold turkey on that, at least.

Also, now I want to make you a t-shirt that says LITTLE THUNDERDOME ON THE PRAIRIE: WRITE OR DIE.

In conclusion, yay!

[truepenny.livejournal.com]

LITTLE THUNDERDOME ON THE PRAIRIE: WRITE OR DIE

ohgodthatwouldbeAWESOME.

[mirrorthaw.livejournal.com]

LITTLE THUNDERDOME ON THE PRAIRIE: WRITE OR DIE.

This? Is the Best! T-Shirt! Idea! in the whole of ever and I wish to purchase stock in your T-Shirt production company.

[heresluck]

I have to admit I am getting increasingly fond of the idea. I might have to make one for myself that says "Thunderdome Support Staff" on the back.

Or possibly there should simply be a MAD MAX: BEYOND CAKEDOME t-shirt sequel.

...I have too many thoughts.

[jerusha.livejournal.com]

Good luck!

(Eye-bag sheep? <looks puzzled>)

Edited to close parenthesis.

[truepenny.livejournal.com]

Sydney Greensheep (http://teamsugar.com/user/bizzybee/beautymarks/425032).

Best ten-dollar impulse buy I have EVER made.

[jerusha.livejournal.com]

<adores>

[elisem.livejournal.com]

Go forth and be mighty! And I'm looking forward to seeing you.

[truepenny.livejournal.com]

Ditto!

[mia-mcdavid.livejournal.com]

You can do it; I know you can!

Waiting with bated breath . . .

[crookedfeet.livejournal.com]

Good luck with OT-
We will be here. Also, you forgot to pack chain-mail dress w/matching pumps-or whatever the prairie equivalent is-a chain-mail sunbonnet?

Welcome to the Thunderdome

[gardensoil.livejournal.com]

Good luck! Yes, a violent showdown! But now the link is made, beyond any doubt. "Yes mrs. bookshop keeper, do you have a copy of 'Thunderdome'... erhm, I mean 'Corambis'?"

[(Anonymous)]

Typing gloves? I *do* hope that they were white. There's something fitting in a PhD typing Appalachianesque Fantastical Fiction in White Gloves. Which I'm looking forward to. (The fiction, not the gloves.) Zaf