Waterlog

[truepenny]

TIME: 30 min.
DISTANCE: 3.6 mi.
TOTAL: 21.1 mi.
NOTES: The great advantage to renting the rowing machine is that if it takes me until 9 o'clock at night to talk myself into exercising, that's just fine.
SHIRE-RECKONING: The Road goes ever ever on.

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In other news, in case anyone is anxiously wondering, my actual deadline for Corambis turned out to be August 15th. I've got about 200 pages of draft left to go, and I've managed to get the word count down to 174,000, which means I even have some wiggle room to put the exposition in. Excelsior.

Comments

[dichroic.livejournal.com]

Glad the rowing machine is working for you. (We refer to them as "torture devices" around here - but since we can't get on the water too often here, our two get a lot of use.) After all these years of rowing in kilometers, it just seems funny to hear about miles rowed! Even though after nearly two years out of the US I'm still much more used to thinking of distances and speed in terms of miles and always have to convert when talking to people who think in metric.

[cammykitty.livejournal.com]

Silly me, I've been checking off and on for Corambis in the bookstore already. I need my Mildmay fix. ;) Good luck, and feel free to beat him up, but no limb loss ya here.

[zanai.livejournal.com]

Hello. I don't know what your policy is on answering questions about your books, but there's two things that have been bugging me and I can't find a conclusive answer anywhere, so I hoped you would clear things up.

1) How many is a Great Septad exactly?

2) In the old calendar system, what is the first set of numbers? (Meaning, in the form xx.y.z, what is "xx"?) Are they Great Septads? This question wasn't answered on your page about the calendar system, and I was just curious.

Thank you!

[truepenny.livejournal.com]

1. 7x7. 7 septads/49 years.
2. Yes. It's the number of complete Great Septads, followed by the number of complete septads, and then the number of indictions. So 20.2.4 is 20 Great Septads, 2 septads, and 4 indictions--or 988 years since the ascension of Tal-Marathat, the semi-mythical founder of the city-state that evolved into Mélusine (city) and Marathat (state).

(No, I will never invent a calendrical system this complicated again, so help me blue fuzzy thing (http://icanhascheezburger.com/2008/02/07/funny-pictures-twoof-so-help-me-blue-fuzzy-thing/).)

[zanai.livejournal.com]

Thank you very much!