Wow. I’ve received a stunning amount of orders for art from my ETSY shop in the past 24 hours. Somebody somewhere must be getting their tax refunds…
Author: allisonstein
Today I have been plagued by telephone sales people who either 1) are working without a script and can’t remember why they called, 2) are working with a poorly written script and are reading it badly, or 3) are feeling terribly chatty because they really, really don’t want to be reading from their script. Why me?
I experienced rush hour three times this morning — 1) drove Sweetie from home to the airport, 2) raced from the airport to home to retrieve critical paperwork sweetie forgot, 3) raced back toward the airport, ran out of time at about the same time I reached the downtown loop, then detoured south to work in Overland Park. Sigh. UPS Next Day Air is my friend. And Sweetie owes me dinner when he gets back.…
It’s Spring, ya’ll! Yay!
When I was young, I quickly gobbled up my local library’s small selection of science fiction, alphabetically: Asimov, Bradbury, Clarke…. Clarke passed yesterday, at the age of 90. The New York Times published an excellent tribute: http://www.nytimes.com/2008/03/19/books/19clarke.html excerpt: Clarke’s Three Laws Among his legacies are Clarke’s Three Laws, provocative observations on science, science fiction and society that were published in his “Profiles of the Future” (1962): – “When a distinguished but elderly scientist states that…