There is now power at my building. I can go home tonight.

(Evidently, the electrical room flooded, which caused all the problems. This is a HUGE deal. When this happened a couple of years ago to one of my clients – and they are in a huge professional building in downtown Bethesda – it took them 3 days to fix, so this wasn’t an unusual time frame.)

Still no power – since 10:00 p.m. Sunday.

Le sigh.

All the other buildings in the complex have power except for mine. As of 3:30 this afternoon, they weren’t sure when it would be restored. It’s being worked on – has been all day, but something is really wrong. The poor woman at the desk doesn’t have a lot of information, but recommended I not try to go home tonight.

I’ll be spending the night again with J and the gang – which is all fine and dandy (they have a really nice guest room, a great plasma TV, and a shower to die for), but…I really just want to be at home.

Send my apartment building vibes o’the good kind, please!!

Feel free to totally skip the whingeing. Really.

The power went out about 10:00 p.m. last night. No worries, I have a flashlight. I can handle a wee power outage…except, not so much with the wee and more of the OMG, it’s still fucking out.

I Slept horribly as it got extremely warm and humid inside b/c no power = no a/c.

This morning, I wake up to, you guessed it, no power still.

Freezing cold shower, then a 10-story walk down to the ground level…in the DARK with my flashlight because the emergency lighting doesn’t last past a couple of hours.

Many storms wreaking havoc all over the place, but hey, I got to work. Work, which is on an “iffy” grid, is actually fine – no power outages. Go figure.

Once at work, though I find that I have no team today. One guy is on vacation. (this I knew). The other guy called in. Arrgh. And this is the last week of the month, and the last week of our fiscal year.

The weather is still sucky – thunderstorms predicted all week – just started to rain again.

Tried calling my apartment building – only got the weird busy signal, which usually means no service. This does not bode well.

Good thing is, I followed the 5 Ps – I packed an overnight bag, with changes of clothing and toiletries and put Blanche in the backpack along with my PDA and assorted power cords. So, if I have to camp out at a coworkers, at least I have clean clothes, a computer and stuff to read.

Of the good:
Over the weekend, I watched Entourage, season 1 (thank you, Netflix); Kinky Boots (really cute) and caught up on The Closer and Saved. I did not, however, get any writing done.

I still want a do-over, though. ::points to new icon:: Tardis, please take me away!!

What better way to start the work day than to find out that The Book of Daniel is being released on DVD?

Well, okay, there could be other things, but dudes, this so rocks. I fell in love with this show when it first aired. The writing was excellent, the casting superb, but then it was axed down before the fourth episode aired. Shades of Wonderfalls.

Although it was only eight episodes, I’ll be one of the first to pre-order the DVD set.

\o/

Just watched the last 2 episodes of Life on Mars, series 1.

Whoa.

That is all.

and better late than never.

A happy belated birthday to thisisbone, rattlecatcher and scribblinlenore.

A very happy on time birthday to the_starfish!

You all rock like the mightiest rockin’ thing.

There should be cake and noisemakers and dudes, so much boykissing.

This duck is now dead…it is an ex-duck.

Viva Con-Txt and may there be many more.

Highlights but no photos as I suck at pictures. I hate carrying around a camera, and even if I’d wanted to, I can’t find the bloody thing.

The list: (by no means complete)

• Getting up for estrella30‘s SPN panel and realizing that I can think before breakfast (at least, I don’t believe I was incoherent, was I?)
• Getting to meet lalejandra, Cassandra, serialkarma in person and participate in their writing panel
• Hard Core Logo discussion, led by isiscolo
• bethbethbeth‘s panels on the allure of the “other” and beta reading
• Misspamela‘s Doctor Who
• Life On Mars!!! by lynnmonster and dsudis, accompanied by the LoM music companion – Thanks, Lynn!
• Disco Duck and the fabulous slide show
• due South dinner at Vicini’s
• Driving back from the DS dinner with way too many of us in aerye‘s car
• Multi-fannish party in 1506
• The “loud” room for the vid show
• Brekkie with shayheyred and reginagiraffe
• Hanging out with raveninthewind
• Spending the weekend with the best people ever – talking fandoms, writing, and life in general

I KNOW I’m leaving someone, some event out. I blame the tired brain.

The con was fabulous and I’ve already registered for 2008. Alas, there won’t be a Con-Txt in ’07.
Kudos to the con comm for the great location, the excellent hotel and the overall schedule, panels, etc. You all did a most excellent job.

BTW – I may be friending a bunch of you folks. No reciprocal action needed. Really. I promise I’m not a stalker and I won’t get freaked out if you don’t friend me in return. ::g::

Off to nap or something.

I’m still ticking, still just fine. Doc visit on Friday yielded nothing but a bit of anemia, a sinus infection and a request to follow up with more bloodwork. Uhm, seriously, I *write* about vampires, I don’t want to hang out with them. ::g::

Thanks to all of you that sent me get-well wishes, it was a crazy crazy week last week!

I spent the weekend fighting with Word, trying to get my edits back to my editor. Seems like the stupid “track changes” function wanted to just remove chunks, when I hit “accept all changes”. ARRGH. I ended up spending nearly three hours having to go change by change and accepting them individually. Sigh.

Note to self: never use “track changes” on a manuscript EVER again.

Watched Transamerica on Sunday (yay Netflix) and enjoyed it immensely. Spent the rest of the day vegging.

This week will be full of work stuff that I need to get done before Friday b/c yay, Con.Txt!! In my infiinte not-wisdom, I reserved a room for me and bheerfan for Friday and Saturday nights, not realizing that I probably wanted to come stay on Thursday. (yes, yes, I know, I did this LAST year, too. The brain, she is losing it.) So in any case, I’ll be there first thing on Friday morning. Looking forward to hanging with folks I rarely get to see in person and meeting new folks.

Now that my edits to Matters are done (at least until I get more feedback), I’ll be concentrating on Book 2 – which I believe I’m going to go back to calling Blood Bargain. I’ve screwed around with titles and I really like this one best. I’ve already done a lot of preliminary work, notes, etc. – filling in holes about Keira’s world, how things work, etc. Now I get to the tough and most exciting part – writing the damned thing. I have about 35,000 words from a previous incarnation of which I can salvage most of it, but really, it’s the sitting down and doing it. Ah well, the trials and tribulations of authors. ::g::

If I don’t post again, catch many of you at Con.Txt!!

No actual verdict yet, but I’m not dead. ::g::

Nor do I have appendicitis, whew!

I have a follow up doctor’s appointment tomorrow (one I’d already made for my allergies, BTW) and we’ll discuss options at that point.

You know, I really really really hate medical stuff.

Just sayin’

Feeling way better today – no pain, but just an overwhelming exhaustion. I’m at work, but all I want to do is nap.

Many hugs back to all of you that commented, wrote me, etc., you are all simply the best!

kassrachel wanted a do-over yesterday, I’d like to call in my marker for today, please.

The tale of how not to spend a Wednesday