{"id":710,"date":"2009-08-13T00:26:00","date_gmt":"2009-08-13T00:26:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/vyrdolak.com\/wordpress\/?p=710"},"modified":"2009-08-13T00:26:00","modified_gmt":"2009-08-13T00:26:00","slug":"well-that-was-interesting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vyrdolak.com\/wordpress\/?p=710","title":{"rendered":"Well, that was interesting&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s been one of <em>those<\/em> days. I went to the post office as part of a very busy day yesterday, and the ARCs of <em>Cat the Vamp<\/em> had arrived. Today I thought I would finish catching up on backlogged e-mail and get the pre-pub review copies of <em>Cat the Vamp<\/em> ready to ship. Then, at around 1:30 p.m., I had a call from a Bill Scott looking for a guest for a two-hour web-radio show called <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ali-fm.com\/news.php\" target=\"_blank\">Into the Shadows<\/a>. It focuses on paranormal\/conspiracy topics and they wanted a vampire expert. Tonight. I can&#8217;t afford to pass up a promo op so I said yes.<\/p>\n<p>I went on catching up with mail&#8211;still not done! I went out for groceries because I had nothing left in the house (leftover party platter fruit has fed me for two days in row, though! I sorted it out and weighed it so I could calculate the calories, because I&#8217;m now back on my dietary regimen after five days of eating con party food almost exclusively, bleh. I intended to buy some healthier food in Montreal and never got around to it!).<\/p>\n<p>I <em>had<\/em> to make more of my oatmeal\/whole wheat cookies because the ones I took to Montreal got waterlogged in the cooler on the way home. That&#8217;s an involved process because I have to make the fruit pulp from fresh fruit&#8211;strawberries and blackberries for this batch&#8211;plus chop dates, weigh and measure everything, calculate the calories, etc. I started those while my hair color was setting because now I had the radio show from 9:00 to 11:00 p.m. Four minutes before I was about to start cycling, Staples called and wanted to ask me a few questions about my &#8220;experience&#8221; using their Copy Center for the convention flyers and banners I did last week. Well, my &#8220;experience&#8221; was terrific and I told them so, but their timing for follow-up phone calls sucks rocks. *sigh*<\/p>\n<p>Ten minutes into my cycling, my next door neighbor knocked on the door. <b><em>Fucking UPS left the entire shipment of <\/em>Gideon Redoak<em> in their garage!!!!!<\/em><\/b> Four cartons, about $800 worth of books!! Those <em>assholes!!!!<\/em> Gods, but I swear UPS must have a maximum I.Q. for hirees&#8211;no one above an I.Q. of 80! They are so fucking stupid!!! I apologized profusely to my neighbor and now I have to complain to Lightning Source and UPS. I had to hop off my exercycle to answer the door, had no idea where I&#8217;d put my shirt and went to the door in my leggings and sports bra, thereby giving the neighbor a thrill. &#8220;Oh, are you working out?&#8221; he asked sweat-dripping me as I helped him unload books from the trunk of his car. &#8220;You look good!&#8221; Well, thank you. He should know, he sure got a good view. *grump* When I subtotaled the calories after I ate supper, it came to 666. I wasn&#8217;t at all surprised.<\/p>\n<p>Got workout done, got the cookies done, and to my amazement, got sunset attunement done without an interruption. Yesterday my sister called me just minutes before I would have started and we talked for about an hour.<\/p>\n<p>The radio show was rather fun and I talked for the whole first hour. Then they had other guests talking about UFOs and conspiracies, but I actually know a lot about UFOs so I jumped in on that, too. They mentioned <em>Mortal Touch<\/em> and By Light Unseen Media and my website about twenty times so it was really great PR. I&#8217;m not sure how big their audience is, they said about 1000 people. They had open lines for call-ins but nobody called. Bill and Chris Sloan, the hosts, say they&#8217;ll have me back when <em>The Longer the Fall<\/em> comes out.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s been one of those days. I went to the post office as part of a very busy day yesterday, and the ARCs of Cat the Vamp had arrived. 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