December 08, 2003

Meet Howard in Nuremberg!
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If you're going to be near Nuremberg on Tuesday the 11th, head over to this thread on the Schlock forum. Right now! I don't know when I'll next be in Germany, so if you'd like to hang out with me for an evening and get a sketch (of YOU, as a chibi in the Schlock Mercenary show!), now may be your only chance.

If this looks like a repeat of the information in Saturday's entry, it is. I'm rehashing ALL of it, mostly because so few of you hang around the site on weekends.

So... rehashing... Yes, I still have laryngitis. Self-imposed vocal rest has helped a bit, but I'm going to need to keep that up right until I land in Nuremberg. This likely means using my valuable sketch-pad sheets on the airplane to write notes to the stewardesses. Whispers get completely lost in the white noise at 30,000 feet. I may just sit down and write all my notes now:

"Diet Pepsi."

"Ummm... the one with the chicken in it?"

"Whaddaya mean $5.00 for a headset? This is an international flight!"

"Can you move me next to someone else? This guy is smelly and is interfering with my drawing arm."

"LOL"

"Thanks."

I bought some new books for the trip. I'll tell you about them when I get back. In the meantime, here's what I thought of the last book I read...

Digital Knight by Ryk Spoor was a fun read. I was a little leery of it -- it seemed like one of those "vampires and werewolves in a modern setting" books, but very quickly diverged from that set and into something much more complicated and engaging. I liked it a lot, and it's gotten great reader reviews at Amazon. On a personal note, Ryk is a Schlock fan, and this was his first book. It's published through Baen, and they're the same folks who publish John Ringo's work. John is a Schlock fan, too. Yay Baen!

And now, back to vocal rest for me.