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Okay, Canada! I'm warning you! STOP sending cold air down here!!! This is beyond ridiculous; we're freezing our butts off here in Florida. I usually turn my heater on once during our "winter," but tonight and this week will mark the THIRD time I'm doing this. Knock it off!
Grrr. This prolonged frigid weather is really making my mornings miserable. You can always tell the "snowbirds" from the natives. They're the chirpy people walking around in shorts saying, "I'm loving this!" to everyone nearby. The answering growls are from the bundled-up natives who know better. Warning: the next person who comes up to me all bright-eye and bushy-tail to merrily point out that "at least there's no humidity" is going to get seriously hurt.
It gets really cold at the labor compound while I wait for a job for the day. Basically, a bunch of us stand around and stamp our feet a lot to try to keep warm (why would stamping feet create body heat, I have no idea). Me, I try to read a book sometimes but my chattering teeth and shaking hands make it tough. It was kind of funny this morning, trying to get into a vampire story while my body was as cold as the undead. It made the idea of gnawing on a poor sod's neck and sucking up some hot blood quite tempting, quite actually....
Talking about doing normal things in different places, remember the SF Convention, Oasis 22, that I attended last year so I could meet favorite authors John Scalzi and C.L. Wilson? Well, I received an email inviting me to be guest panelist for this year's affair. I was quite shocked. Didn't think anyone knew me there. But I had a lot of fun meeting with readers and fans of the SF genre and certainly enjoyed a number of the panels. It's a good way to promote cross-genre books such as Virtually His to new readers, right? And my Viking Dude is urban/alternative fantasy, so I can talk about that too. So...any of you going to be in Orlando around May 22? I promise the weather here should be much warmer by then.
Here's the website to check out the details of CON:
http://oasfis.org/oasis/index.php
One more incentive to go: JOHN RINGO will be there. I need to put on my OH JOHN RINGO NO! teeshirt for him to sign.
Tuesday, February 03, 2009
Another Orlando Gig
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5 comments:
LOL I need to get my own OH JOHN RINGO NO! T-shirt. I love those books. =)
SORRY!!!!!!! If i could stop the cold i would. Some of us are sick of it and we are freezing here too! and all the snow! enough already.
Would it make you feel any better if you knew it was -18 here (with the wind chill it's -26)? I don't mind the cold so much, but I'm getting pretty sick of the snow!
Many years ago my husband and I were in Fort Lauderdale during the winter. We were in shorts and the poolside bartender was in a leather jacket. :-)
Kath,
Those stories are horrifying!!!
Vanessa,
Well, you're up north--you're supposed to be freezing! ;-) I always wonder why the wind blows south and not the other way round....
Firecat,
Many moons ago, during a FL Spring Break, I wore my bikini in 50s degree weather on a windy beach. The hotdog guy was bundled up like it was in the 20s...he was shaking his head at me and my girlfriend, calling us crazy. I laughed, never thinking I'd be him one day. Argh.
I look at it as an over-the-top male wish-fulfillment, shoot-em-up adventure, if that makes sense. =)
The conversation depicted on the shirt had me LOL in an "OMG I can't believe he wrote that" way.
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