I’m taking a couple days out at Rivendell, and the place is working its usual magic. I swear time flows differently here. Words certainly do. Logically, part of it must be getting away from my usual domestic routine. Still, lately it’s been an effort to produce 200 words a day, but in half a day yesterday I managed 850 words. This week’s writing news is mostly that I’ve started writing…
I finally got to see the comet! The plan was to go to El Llano del Jable, but I found cars parked solidly along the roadside for a kilometre or more before the viewpoint itself, so I settled for what I could get. Unfotunately I’d had to leave in a hurry and I found that I’d brought the wrong tripod. This one wouldn’t connect with the camera, so I wedged…
The morning started with a beautiful rainbow and some much-needed rain. And then I found out that the confirmed cases on the island have jumped to 21 overnight. As I said yesterday, there were a bunch of delayed test results yesterday. I assume they all arrived at once, but it’s still a worrying jump. On a happier note, I finally sent the third edition of “A Breathtaking Window on the…
I just finished proof corrections for the third edition of A Breathtaking Window on the Universe. At last! And now I start translating for the Spanish edition.
Chai Latte is still extremely curious about liquids, including a flushing toilet. On Tuesday my car broke down on the way to the observatory. Luckily I was able to limp to the workshop and I got the car back on Wednesday. I’m poorer now of course, but it could have been worse. And I’m still working on the next edition of the observatory book. I don’t get much done each…
I finished the second edition of “A Breathtaking Window on the Universe” in July 2013. Almost immediately, I started work on the Spanish version. But I got interrupted by family holidays, distributing books, and writing “The Seer’s Stone” and translating it into “La piedra ocular” (while local government subsidies were available.) That took longer than anticipated, as these things generally do. Meanwhile I was tour guiding, blogging, writing the odd…