Life Update #1001093838199392: Computer Woes
Some things are going to be put on hold for a week. Why? Because my laptop decided it wanted to die yesterday, leaving some edited work unavailable to me on my other systems (I hadn’t made a backup for all the work done over the weekend, which was quite stupid of me). This means some things will have to wait: New audio chapters of The World in the Satin Bag A story I was working on for Bryan Thomas Schmidt’s Space Battles anthology Other writing projects I was in the middle of (since the tech people have my external hard drive so they can save the data on the dead computer). I am still able to write and what not, but the absence of a computer will make my life very difficult over the next few months, in part because I need a portable computing device for taking notes in my classes and what not. Sadly, I do not make enough money to afford a new computer outright and every time I apply for credit, I get denied, despite the fact that far less responsible individuals who make the same as I do and have ten times the financial burdens are wandering around with five credit cards in their pockets. I just want one…for a computer I plan to pay off in 6 months. I apologize for all the personal posts as of late. The last 5 days have been pretty much garbage, with the A/C and hot water heater breaking, the laptop dying, and the passing of Noodles. It’s not the most exciting vacation time I’ve ever had, that’s for sure… Maybe I need to do one of those “help Shaun get a new computer” donation drives. But that seems enormously unfair. So instead of that, you should all donate food to the homeless.
SandF Episode 4.9 (Interview w/ Daniel Polansky) is Live!
I’ll let our humorous introduction to the episode post do the talking for me: Daniel Polansky, author of Low Town, joins us for a riveting interview about his life in the Reformed Farm Animal Circus, in which he was known as the Great Fiddlestick. Okay, so that’s not really true. Rather, in this episode, Daniel talks to us about his debut novel, a dark genre-bending noir monstrosity we could best describe as awesome, and other fun things, such as how his book can save the World Economy. If you haven’t read Low Town, we highly recommend it. It’s noir. It’s New Weirdy. It’s dark. And it’s amazing. (Plus: Daniel is a hoot.) Hopefully you all enjoy the interview. We had a blast!