If anyone is interested, July has been a good month to this point. I’m working on the line edits of a novel, which I hope to have finished by August, and I’m feeling good about the results. The new agent is working me and to good effect.
This past week has been filled with good stuff. We had company for two days, Donna’s sister and her husband, up from Florida, and we ate at an excellent restaurant (The Shaved Duck, should anyone be interested, which I unreservedly recommend) and had good conversation. Friday night Donna and I went to see Tim Minchin at the Sheldon and that was very fun (with the added pleasure of viewing, in the Sheldon Gallery, a showing of photographs by Larry Fink). Last night I played at the coffeehouse, something I do purely for fun once a month, and we tried something brand new that came off fine.
This morning we did our Dante group—we’re on Canto X of Paradiso—and that was pleasurably dense. This after a morning session at the gym where I learned to my pleasant surprise that I’d been pressing (legs) above my all-time heaviest because I underestimated the base weight of the platten. (Leg press at 810 lbs, if anyone is interested.)
This coming week I’ll be doing a talk at the Daniel Boone Regional Library about the nature of science fiction and spending the rest of the weekend in pleasant company. We may be watching Game of Thrones, which I haven’t seen yet, not having cable.
Then the following week I’ll be conducting a teleconferenced interview with Ursula K. Le Guin, which I am anxiously enthusiastic about.
I cannot complain about July. It has been a good month, even if the heat is oppressive (close to hundred today, maybe tomorrow). Oh, and I received the new YES album, Fly From Here, which I’ve now listened to about four times. I think it is fine and I will be writing a long piece about it here, but I have to think about it a little more.
There’s other stuff I know I’m overlooking, but I’ll save it for the end of the month. Instead of complaining, as I often do here, I just wanted to say things are pretty good at the moment. Hope things are well with you, whoever you are and wherever you may be.
You caught me for just a moment with “Daniel Boone Regional Library.” We knew you were coming and have it on our calendar. Did you know that the St. Louis County Library Branch on Clarkson Road is the “Daniel Boone Library?” It was our closest library before we were transferred east. When we returned to the Midwest our libarary became the Danial Boone Regional Library. So, in effect, we moved from Daniel Boone to Daniel Boone; and sometimes I revert to 30 years ago.