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And into the wet, steamy heart of Texas. All went well. Here’s a picture of the knitting that got done on the trip:
Socks-onna-train
OK, the picture isn’t actually of socks on the train, but of the socks (and sock parts) knitted on the trip…a lot of it train knitting, but knitting also happened in departure lounges , on a bus, in the air, in hotel rooms, during panels at KeyCon. When I started the trip, the cuffs of the socks on my feet were about half or less the length of the cuffs shown above, and now (obviously) they’re finished. The last sock was completed about an hour from the train station at the end of the trip. The first sock was finished about an hour before Dallas.
I spent yesterday alternately napping, doing laundry, and working on backlog stuff that came in while I was gone with occasional dashes onto the internet and a very unproductive time starting at the book (was too tired to get into first-draft mode.) Still a bit wiped out. OTOH, the trip to the Field Museum in Chicago was productive and so was meeting Dr. David L. Clements at KeyCon (astrophysicist, but he had an answer for me to a question that’s been nagging on the effect of continental placement on near-polar ocean currents.) We were on a panel together on hard & soft science, and had pretty much the same approach. Also had a good panel on military fiction with David Weber.
More later.
Comment by Kip Colegrove — May 22, 2015 @ 6:36 pm
World building–literally, as in planet building–must involve a fair amount of what we called “earth science” when I was in high school, if you’re going to end up with a world whose seasons, currents, tides, tectonics and so on make sense. To say nothing of the flora and fauna, if any.
As to other forms of creativity, knitting a nifty pair of red socks is no mean accomplishment. Just in time for Pentecost.
Comment by Daniel Glover — May 25, 2015 @ 4:38 am
I hope you and yours have survived the storms well.
Comment by elizabeth — May 25, 2015 @ 11:04 am
So far we’re doing fine, but another round moves in this afternoon. The only thing I really worry about is a tornado…we’re well-placed to handle heavy rain, flash floods, and moderate hail. Big hail will break some windows, but we can handle that. We had a day with very little rain (yesterday) so the plumbing is still working. (Septic tanks, however well built and however well a tile field is laid out, can have problems in sustained heavy rain events.)
Tornadoes are “luck of the draw” and not much
Comment by Abigail Miller — May 25, 2015 @ 4:58 pm
The comment above that breaks off in the middle of a sentence about tornadoes might be worrying, save that I have read your later newsgroup post that all is (so far) well.
Comment by Jonathan Schor — May 27, 2015 @ 1:54 pm
Please be careful in the rain. I hope you and yours are ok.
On another note, I just gave my granddaughter who turns 10 today my old ipad. One of the books is the first in the Paks series.
Comment by GinnyW — May 27, 2015 @ 8:05 pm
I hope you, and your neighbors stay safe during the latest weather outbreak. And that the wet eventually restores some of the flora that have suffered from dry weather in the past few years.