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October 17, 2004

What's Been Happening

Life’s been busy, good but busy.

At DC, I’ve spent most of the last week working on our new project, which will be announced in about a month. It has more moving parts and things to track that anything since the old Who’s Who but so far we’ve hit no major snags. While time consuming, it’s fun and a challenge. The rest of my books are moving swimmingly. Got the first bound copy of Superman: Birthright on Thursday and think it looks terrific. Robbin Brosterman did an excellent job on the design and I hope the talent involved, and the readers, agree.

Saturday was spent in Rhinebeck NY at the 32nd Annual Sheep & Wool Family Festival. This was Deb’s day. An avid knitter (and quilter and clothing maker and…), she really wanted to go and see the vendors, the sheep and enjoy a day outdoors before the weather forces us in for a while. I went along because, well, she asked me and the idea of spending a carefree day with my wife sounded good. It’s held at the Dutchess County Fairgrounds, where their annual County Fair is held, therefore it was familiar territory. Nowhere near as crowded as I expected, mainly because the weather was iffy: cool, gray, breezy, threatening rain all day.

We wandered through several vendor halls, she patting the various yarns and me sampling the foods for sale. By lunchtime, she had bought all of one skein of yarn and I was concerned this was going to disappoint her. As we settled down to eat our lamb burgers (surprisingly mild and tasty), I spotted my co-worked Jann Jones, with her husband artist J.G. Jones. Hadn’t met J.G. before so we chatted as Jann and Deb compared notes.

After lunch, Deb finally got into her groove and found things for herself, for her sister and so on. Quite a load, actually, but nothing compared with what she brought back from the annual Stitches convention last year (think the San Diego Comicon for knitters). She was happy.

We bought an interesting tasting New Orleans rub for fish and a Raspberry Chipolte sauce that I intend to use for chicken glaze.

Topped the day off by having dinner with her brother Jeff and his girl friend Lisa. He directed us to an Outback near the Poughkeepsie Galleria and somehow we wound up at two different Outbacks. He found us and a lovely time was had by all.

Today’s shopping, laundry and then digging into the writing of the Voyager story. Watched the pilot and “Parallax” the other night, refreshing myself on the look, feel and rhythm of the show. In doing so, I found a hook to start the story and yesterday, while wandering, my mind began piecing together little bits. Hope it all finds its way onto the page this afternoon

Posted by Bob Greenberger at October 17, 2004 10:04 AM

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So how did the Voyager story go?


Have Nomi and Deb discussed knitting? Nomi's an avid knitter as well.

Posted by: Michael A. Burstein [TypeKey Profile Page] at October 17, 2004 08:49 PM