Sorry!!!

I was felled by a miseable migraine yesterday (Sunday) and did not prep a post for today

Janet on Sunday

Back on track for tomorrow (Tuesday).

Egad, what a weekend to lose my wifi!

Sorry guyz!
Just got back from hanging out Elsewhere and as it turns out, Elsewhere didn't allow me access to the wifi network!

ARGH!!

I should have remembered my gmail passwords! And my blog passwords!
I change them often enough that I have to write them down,
and if I get to a place where I have to log on as someone else cause my computer is being snobbish
about "local wifi" ...well...let's not do that again.

Content resumes tomorrow!

so, I'm really behind on stuff

After being down for the count this weekend, I'm a tad behind on blog posts (as well as every other single thing on my To Do list)

To hold you over, here's one of my favorite posts: it's about That Guy at booksignings.

Have an explosively great day!

Mt. St. Helens May 18, 1980

Have a great weekend!

This map of the Imperial History of the Middle East is endlessly fascinating.  You might have to log in to StumbleOn to see it, but it's well worth it.

"We're going to need a bigger vacuum"

Something beautiful for your Monday morning

 and here's how they made that video

Where I am not

Clients like to torment their agent too. This is from one of the Fabulosity who lives in Mexico in the winter. Yes, I am inquiring about the availability of guest housing!


As long as my bedroom will not be shared by this fine fellow:

and the transportation is not courtesy of this ensemble

but I might even room with Mr. Lizard and get hauled around by The Family Ox to see this

Still not there

Where I'm not again

Where I'm not

one of my clients winters in Baja.

I'm pretty sure coveting my neighbor's ass was mentioned in that pesky list of Commandments, but really that does NOT cover the kayak...does it??

oh hell yes!

thanks to blog reader and companion in crime Terri Lynn Coop for the photo!

How I will be travelling home from Texas today

thanks to my pal @muchadoabout77 for this!

View from our new digs!

ok, so I'm not getting any work done cause it's more fun to look out the window to watch what's going on across 29th Street! I'm a total nerd for heavy equipment. I have no idea why. (I can hear Kari Dell laughing at this all the way from Montana!)

Is it still Shark Week? (it's ALWAYS Shark Week!)

---this was sent to me by Editor Awesome

who SHOULD be editing but..well, isn't.

I won! I won!

Recently I entered a random drawing advertised on Twitter by the good folks @AtRandom and zowie, I won!

Here's the haul that arrived this morning

More on pens!

I am interviewed for a blog about pens!

Pens!

You thought SASEs engendered discussion?

Try asking a writer or agent or editor about the perfect PEN!

I recently spent more money than I care to admit just for the perfect pen HOLDERS!

Yes, those are *decorative use only!!* mint julep cups.
Yes, it took me weeks to find them.
Yes, that is what I do when I'm letting my brain whir in the background on a problem.

And yes, I have tried at least a dozen kinds of pens in the last few years to find the PERFECT pen which is the Sharpie in the foreground, although I'm also very VERY fond of these (which do not get their own holder cause they are in my reticule)

Thus, when Alec Breton sent me this, I laughed out loud!

Editing symbols! UPDATED!

Can you add to the list? Send me your contribution and I'll add it here! (jpg attachment in an email is groovy!)

From Sarah McGuire:  As you know, Bob highlights dialog info-dumps. For instance: "As you know, Bob, my life went down the crapper when the shark ate Marsha six years ago. I haven't been able to stay sober since."

From Catherine Misener:  I call it the 'don't quit your day job' symbol (one an agent might use when sifting through her inbox???)


From Steve Forti:

Stephen Kozeniewski offers alternate meanings. This cracked me up completely:





Bill Scott is on to your over-use of adverbs!






ohhhh---now this is not a note you want from your editor! (thanks to Laura!)

The Rental Cat visits!

The Rental Cat is slightly bored with all this tapping on the computer

Maybe something interesting will happen?

What ho! Barbarians at the gate?

Barbarian pigeons dare to enter my airspace?

How dare they!

I'll stand guard to keep them at bay.

Or maybe I'll just take a nap.