Checklist.

Arrowflight - Northern Empires sourcebook: done.  As soon as Gavin gives the pdf a pass, I'll be putting it up for sale online, and arranging the POD run through dtrpg.com and Amazon.  Next up, Shriek X, Star Legion XPG and The Mystic East supplement for Arrowflight.  I also have gear splatbooks for Arrowflight and RADZ started, but they're victims of work-on-'em-when-I-can syndrome.

Airship Daedalus: is it in you?  Are you following it?  Are you decoding the ciphers?  For a secondary learn-as-we-go webcomic project, this thing is proving to be a blast and a half, and has led to a few expansions of the property.  Firstly, we've been given ten pages in the next edition of Mash Tun.  So that's cool.  Then I have the script for a ten-page one-shot story in the following issue.  We also are happy to count actress/singer/producer Wonder Russell (Rogue in the "On and On" film I directed for Kirby Krackle), who has put in a bid to play the character of Doc in any screen venture we attempt with Daedalus.  Although I'm a bit gun shy to go all out on a Daedalus film just yet, Ms. Russell did indeed encourage a teaser/trailer/proof-of-concept project which we could showcase at ECCC next year, as well as using as the basis for a Kickstarter campaign to fund a web serial.  In the meantime, I've already translated Chapter 1 of the webcomic into an old-time radio drama.  We'll set that up this summer and post it to the website.  There's also an RPG of the property in the works (with plenty of legwork already done from the first time I tinkered with the setting back in the late '80s).

Ordinary Angels: We got some incredibly helpful feedback from an old high school filmmaker buddy who now works at Disney.  I'm adjusting the pitch this week.

Spent Raechelle's birthday being sick.  Possible ulcer and a sinus infection.  Recovered enough to co-host our combined birthday bash at the Mop & Bucket, and promptly relapsed.  Spent my own birthday in the doctor's office, but bucked up enough to go see opening night of Thor with the fam and some friends.  Finally went on antibiotics and both issues seem to be clearing up just fine.  But now Raechelle and Kayleigh are both sick with what I've termed The Snot Monster - so much so that we had to skip the trip to Bellingham for May Birthdays.  We're rescheduling for June.

Tyler turns 17 tomorrow.  I don't feel old enough to have a 17 year-old son.  Hopefully I never will feel old enough. I will say that Tyler has undergone an evolution, emotionally as well as physically.  It's such a far cry from where we were just last year (and especially 2008-2009).  We're all breathing a huge sigh off relief and are very hopeful about his future.

It's amazing that I found the time to put up this post, but now I need to get back to the checklist...

I Thought it Was June!

Wacky global warming. It's June 3rd and pissing down rain. Definitely not my experience during the last 17 years living in this city. Ah well. Keeps you guessing.

We've been getting some odd comments about how the RADZ book appears in some PDF readers. There's some sort of funky issue with how Adobe follows their own PDF specs. Has to do with ligatures and all sorts of DTP voodoo I've conveniently forgotten since I worked for Kinko's during college. My associate at Precis Intermedia (who hosts the Deep7 site and handles some of our digital and print-on-demand fulfillment) is working on the issue. It's making me realize how much of the technical side of publishing knowledge I've lost. I'm much better at the creative/design side. I'm happy to invent a world setting, cultures, histories, religions. Happy writing background material and setting flavor text. And I live for designing covers, packaging and marketing materials. But when it comes to the technical side (editing, layout, indexing, and all things print), I feel like I should be riding the short bus.

Mary has sent out the casting call for Crazy For You. I know I won't be involved in the performance side of things this year, but if Kayleigh decides she wants to do chorus (there are no real speaking roles for her age range), I will be the dutiful stage dad once again. And I will do the poster design (but I'm not sure if I want to take on the program this year). Everyone knows how busy I keep, and how many plates I usually have spinning. This is one time I feel I need to step back a bit and take care of my own stuff. Especially if the Duo pitch happens soon and we get funded. If that happens, the only people who will see me for the month of production will be my cast & crew, my kids and Raechelle.

Speaking of which, in rummaging through my desk drawer last night, I ran across the "date-in-a-box" (not to be confused with this) that Doug had given me for Christmas: a Chili's gift card and a Regal Cinemas gift card. So now I have a few extra resources for things to do with Raechelle when we're not going to comedy shows and festival screenings.

'Cause you know we're all about makin' plans.