absent in black

[adelaidesean]

I'm out of the office for a week or so, and to be honest, I'll miss it. Sometimes people wonder how I cope with working from home most of the time. My response is simple: I bloody love it. No commuting, fully-stocked kitchen, couch for afternoon naps. What could be better?

Perhaps this: the steampunk laptop and concrete monitor.

(Update: and this clock.)

Somewhere out there is a chair to match. I just know it.



Meanwhile, the promotional machine rolls on.

Grant Stone's fabulous Faster Than Light radio show has started podcasting interviews. Here are links to the episodes containing halves of one he recorded with me in October: part one and part two. Grant is my favourite interviewer. He always throws me something I couldn't possibly have seen coming, but only ever in a good way.

Geodesica appears at #1 on Lou Anders' list of ten books he'd be reading if he only had the time to read.

More soon.

Comments

[ladnews.livejournal.com]

The cheapest place in which to work from home in Australia (and still enjoy superior wine and food) is, of course, Adelaide... :-)

[throughsoftair.livejournal.com]

Do the SA Torism Board pay you a stipend? :))

[ladnews.livejournal.com]

I wish! No, I'm just desperate for more of my interstate friends to visit. :-)

[throughsoftair.livejournal.com]

You know, I have a hard time picturing you as lonely.... :)

[ladnews.livejournal.com]

Well, no, not often, but I do miss the people I see only once or twice a year. Adelaide is off the map, specfic convention-wise, so if I want to see them, I have to travel, and that gets expensive after a while. :-)

[throughsoftair.livejournal.com]

what happened to the SF Con that was being planned last year? I know it folded, but was it just a case of too many Cons on the landscape?

I'd love to travel more, and as all I've seen of Adelaide is the airport (The cleanest I've ever been in: tell your superiors at The Tourist Board :) ) I'd love to do it properly.

If we can scame ourselves a trip between Clarion and the move, I think it's on the cards.

[ladnews.livejournal.com]

Last year's con was cancelled for a bunch of reasons, too much competition one of them. Maybe it'll get up again one day. We'll see. I kinda like keeping work and home separate to some extent; ie when I come back to Adelaide all I have to do is write, not be "on"; that works out well for sanity. Still, there are lots of people I'd like to hang out with more regularly, outside a con, and that's what I miss most of all. Watching sitcoms with Deb Biancotti, drinking too much Sav Blanc with Cat Sparks, talking Dr Who with Danny Heap, etc etc. And your good self too, of course. I remember a particular evening in Brisbane earlier this year (iirc) with great fondness...

I am heading off to our sparkling new airport in about half an hour, so I will report on its cleanliness upon my return.

[throughsoftair.livejournal.com]

You are definitely one of the people we miss seeing on a more regular basis.

Enjoy your trip, and get in touch when you come back. We should work *something* out.

[ladnews.livejournal.com]

Thanks, my friend. Will do.