Reading: free comics
Music: Great Big Sea
TV/Movie: Red Dwarf
Link o' the Day: The Mad Peck



Closer and closer to this whole buying a home thing. Tomorrow we have the home inspection. I'm not expecting any problems. The house looked pretty sound to us with a lot of new fixtures, a surprisingly dry basement, good roof, new-ish furnace and water heater. But it's still all worth doing. Cautionary tales abound of homes purchased without inspections that end up costing tens of thousands of dollars of work on top of mortgage, insurance, and so forth.

So we're paying a guy hundreds of dollars in order to save us tens of thousands. Seems like a fair trade. Plus in my typical man-child way, as someone who has never owned a home before, I have no idea how the mechanics of furnaces and pipes and such work. This guy is supposed to show me everything and has a good reputation for explaining stuff to people like me who, while intelligent and capable in other arenas, have never been accused of being overly handy.

Time to invest in some Time-Life books.

We still have some more flaming hoops to leap through before closing the deal. After the inspection, it's mostly bank stuff. We also have to arrange for the move in June, and the switch-over of utilities, mail, etc. Looks like I'm going to have to buy a cheap car at some point too as it's a little bit of a hike to the bus lines and I will no longer be in the middle of the city where most everything I need is pretty close.

Welcome to suburbia.

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Work is still pretty much on schedule. With the home inspection scheduled tomorrow, and some other business, time tomorrow may be a bit off and I may find myself scrambling a bit over the weekend, but overall this is looking like a productive week. I should be finishing the first medical journal draft today, then attacking the Beverly Washburn book and working on some new designs for the SFWA Bulletin.



The organization has put together some new logos and is working on a new overall look, including a totally revamped web presence. It looks pretty interesting. I'm going to missing the radiating wave logo theme I developed for the Bulletin for its reboot last year, but we like to keep things fresh and I like what the new SFWA president, Russell Davis, is doing to spearhead that.

More on that as it develops. Not everything has been officially unveiled as of yet.

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Today's link goes to The Mad Peck, noted underground cartoonist and creator of the infamous PROVIDENCE poster ("Providence Rhode Island, where it rains two days out of three except during the rainy season when it snows like a bitch, and Friendship is a one way street. Rich folks live on Power Street, but most of us live off Hope.") He's also the author of one of my favorite collections, a 20-year retrospective of Mad Peck Studios featuring the 60s and 70s rock criticism of the Masked Marvel, history with Dr. Oldie, and journalist I.C. Lotz.

There are some goodies here worth checking out. Posters, prints, comics, and so forth.

Enjoy!