Boo on airports that don't have wireless connections! What's up with that? I was in the Cincinnati airport (which is in Kentucky, go figure) yesterday for a couple hours, ready to go back home after three days of training for some of our new partners, and I couldn't get a freaking connection. I was really hoping to get caught up on some work stuff, but I have to have the Internet to document our software. Not cool.

The trip to Cincinnati and the training -- ugh. The less said about that the better. All I can say is that shelling out $40 to $50 in cash three times for a taxi gets old (especially when a co-worker with a CAR refuses to give you and another co-worker a ride back to your hotel...). Let's just say I'm VERY glad to be back home.

Due to all the prepping I had to do for the training (most of which got thrown out after day one...), I'm WAY behind on my real work for the day job, including documenting a ton of new (and cool) features of the software for the new release due out at the end of August. I'm also WAY WAY behind on my own writing. But I'm making headway. I got a little bit of tweaking done on the opening to the baseball novel, and I should be all done tweaking the whole thing in a week or two. Then I want to print out Sixteen Miles and re-read that book again. I'm starting to want to think about that book again, especially the weird bits. I want to expand those weird bits.

Also, another nifty little tidbit (which I think came about due to my reading this Thursday in Iowa), is that the Raleigh newspaper is running a short brief about Heart's Revenge, possibly tomorrow. Here's the lead, written by Book Editor J. Peder Zane:

"It’s hard to be a romantic guy — and even harder for a guy to be a romance writer. So Raleigh novelist Michael Jasper assumed the nom de plum Julia C. Porter for his latest novel Heart’s Revenge."

Nice, eh? I'll link to it when it comes out.

But for now I want to enjoy hanging out with Lizzie and Drew. We've been apart way too much this month, and I'm not myself without my Jasper crew. I think Drew grew even more while I was away, and he learned a bunch more words (like "Thank you"!). Luckily, the next time I travel, which is this coming Wednesday, we'll all be together. Whew. Later!