Day in the Life of an Idiot

 
Image: fancy homemade stuffed ravioli with browned butter and roasted pine nut sauce.

During the early days of the pandemic, when we were all isolating and it was hard to get to the grocery store, my family and I bought a pasta maker. We pushed out the boat and bought a really fancy, high end one, at that. We call it our Ferrari. It wasn't THAT expensive, but it is awfully classy.

Anyway, Shawn unearthed the Ferrari whilst cleaning out the pantry/utility closet and so we thought, "Hey, we should use that." 

The stuffed ravioli were a lot of picky work, but they turned out pretty darned good. Plus, we did one of those family project things. Mason and I rolled out the dough, Shawn made the filling, I did the stuffing and cutting, and Mason made the buttered sauce. We complained a lot while we were doing it, but that's how our family has fun.  10/10 would again, even though it took us several hours to make these ridiculous ravioli.

In other news, I woke up a writer all of a sudden. 

Yesterday I updated my Patreon with some small news items (an upcoming appearance on a podcast and an invite to a short story anthology.) The whole time I was doing that, I was mentally muttering, "Bah. Why do I bother? I'm barely a writer anymore." I must have invoked the wrath of the gods with that thought, because this morning I was INUNDATED with writing related work. First off, my publisher at Wizard's Tower press dropped a .pdf for me to review into my inbox. It's the PAPER version of Archangel Protocol. For the last several years, the only way you could read that book is by unearthing used copies or as an e-book. I had the rights reverted to me long ago, and so when Cheryl Morgan (of Wizard's Tower) and I were talking at WorldCON this year, she was like, "So why aren't we putting out a paper edition?" and I was like, "I don't know, why aren't we?"

So now we are.

That's the first thing.

The second thing is that I'd just decided that I should probably consider populating my Google Classroom JUST IN CASE the Loft lets me know that I have somehow miraculously gained the fifth student I needed to run my upcoming Monday night (Zoom) class, https://loft.org/classes/writing-future-radical-act-science-fiction-and-fantasy  AND GUESS WHAT? I got the email as I was working on the syllabus that I HAD miraculously gained my fifth student. 

So I guess I'm teaching next Monday.

It feels like everything is happening all at once. But, I mean, it's all good things, so, universe, keep it comin'!