Nerdtour 2012: T-minus 161 hours and counting…

Well, I tried to insert a countdown widget in one of these posts, but for some reason it just didn’t work out right. So, I put one in the sidebar, counting down the hours to 6 AM Saturday the 20th when the plane takes off! Now, doing the math, 161 hours minus 56 hours for sleep, minus 40 hours for work, minus 3 hours commuting time to and from work…

GAHHH! I have 65 hours to get everything done!

Site news: temporarily shut down CD store

wordsWell, since I’m getting ready to go out of the country for a little while, I figured I’d better disable my used CD store for now, since I won’t be able to ship any CDs that I might happen to sell while I’m gone.  Once I get back I’ll turn it back on, and who knows, I may have other things for sale then, too!  The other stuff I’m selling, through Zazzle and Cafe Press, as well as the book through Blurb will still be available, since I don’t have to ship those!

Nerdtour 2012: T-Minus 11 Days – AAAAAGGGHHH!

Well, I’ve now (finally) been hit with the pre-trip jitters, and it’s not fun! It was okay when I had 3 months to go, then two, even one month was not bad, but now that it’s less than two weeks to go, it’s “done got real”!

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Maintaining my geek cred…

As if it wasn’t clear enough by now, I am a geek, and as such I have to have things that demonstrate that geekiness to the world, for example, “figurines” of science fiction and anime characters. In this case, “River Tam” from the TV show “Firefly“, part of the “Big Damn Heroes” series by Quantum Mechanix, purveyors of quality geek paraphernalia…

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