Saturday, January 19, 2002
Yesterday's pic and today's.
State of Play
I've got nearly a hundred photos being developed today, some of which will become pictures of the day.
I started work on The Eliza Effect, my next novel, yesterday. I'm going to start publishing bits of it in February. It's about computing and my experiences of doing IT for a corporate department that doesn't know how to do IT (character assassination alert!). The chapters are going to be arranged in jokey little modules, like functions and subroutines.
Whilst I was in France I got layouts for the first half of Ballad of the Bulletproof Poet done (now simply Bulletproof Poets). I'm going to start scanning them in and working on them, posting the pages as a work in progress to show how a page comes together, and publishing the finished item in digital and dead tree versions by Easter. Then maybe I'll take it to the San Diego comic convention in August.
And finally, for now, I'm generating a second novel from the material in Ten Years Asleep, which could be coming out at the same time as Bulletproof Poets.
Busy, busy.
posted by Ian Pattinson at 1:40 PM link
Thursday, January 17, 2002
Today's picture.
Manchester welcomed me back to work with heavy rain just before I got to the office. And apparently, tomorrow's going to be even worse.
I'm just counting down my days until the end, though next week's going to be busy. I was thinking about it in France, and came to the conclusion that the jobs been a bit like a relationship. In fact, a bit like the relationship I had in 1993-94, horribly dysfunctional, with more demanded of me than I got in return. I started thinking of metaphors about the sex, but, well, no.
posted by Ian Pattinson at 9:59 PM link
Wednesday, January 16, 2002
Back in Manchester. Planes, trains and taxis. I have to start planning my next trip out of the country.
Yesterday's pic and today's.
posted by Ian Pattinson at 9:18 PM link
Monday, January 14, 2002
Yesterday's pic. And today's.
Holiday's almost over. I still keep bottling out of frontside turns and put a little too much weight on the back foot, but I am way better than when I got out here.
I now own a chocolate fondue thingy, snowboarding Action Man, scale piste basher (or Preparatore Piste Bully as it says on the pack) and one of almost every comics magazine published in France this month [including the rude ones, except for 'Bede SM'- not my style]. I reckon the fondue'll be the hardest thing to get through customs- they have a special 'Kitsch to declare' line at the new Liverpool airport.
I am off alcohol until at least the 15th of February (supposed leaving date) and I have to start practising for the Bogle Roll. 75-125 miles on a bike, in a day, past Bury and Bolton. And, as it's in March probably in the rain as well.
And I've got to start eating healthily as well..........
posted by Ian Pattinson at 5:07 PM link
