[07:55] <nhaines> pleia2: sleep!
[07:56] <pleia2> I really should
[07:56] <pleia2> flying back east tomorrow night on a red eye
[07:57] <nhaines> It's okay.  I'm writing.  I have 17k words to write, and I work best under pressure.  So it's going to be another couple hours tonight at least.  :)
[07:58] <pleia2> I turned on my Preface today, it was my final chapter-thing \o/
[07:58] <nhaines> The next time I fly, I'm just going to take the "Star Trek TNG Ambient Engine Noise (Idling for 24 hours)" from YouTube and rip the audio and stick it on my phone.
[07:58] <pleia2> I suppose with noise-cancelling headphones that could work
[07:58] <nhaines> Although the last time I used it, I think I did the DS9 ambient sound for 4 houres and then the spacedrive script from my phone (basically the same as the TNG sound) for 4.
[07:59] <nhaines> Congrats on turning in the final chapter thing!  \o/
[07:59] <pleia2> hehe
[07:59] <pleia2> thanks :) I'm excited
[07:59] <pleia2> just waiting to hear back on a few final rounds of reviews for some dangling chapters
[07:59] <pleia2> but feedback should be pretty minimal, this being final round and all
[07:59] <nhaines> I'm looking forward to seeing the final result!
[07:59] <pleia2> thanks :)
[07:59] <pleia2> it probably is not horrible \o/
[08:00] <nhaines> Well, that's the trick.  :)
[08:00] <pleia2> hehe
[08:00] <nhaines> I'm currently annoyed at my publisher for late feedback.  But luckily my current project is finishing a novel a friend flamed out on.
[08:01] <nhaines> I read it, created a new plot outline, shoehorned in the 24k he'd already written, and now I'm writing around it.  Which is fun because I can take the scenes that were 'finished' (he had half a first draft) and polish them a little to match the new plot.
[08:02] <nhaines> So this kind of ghostwriting is fun.
[08:04] <pleia2> nice :)
[08:05] <pleia2> my father started writing a novel before he passed away, I have all his drafts
[08:05] <nhaines> Ooh.
[08:05] <pleia2> but fiction is not my forte, and it's a mystery that I don't know how he planned on ending
[08:05] <pleia2> mystery is a special breed of tricky fiction
[08:05] <nhaines> Oh, definitely.  I want soooo badly to write it.  But it's very tricksy.
[08:06] <nhaines> This novel is a kind of pulp romance.  So it's sort of fun.
[08:06] <pleia2> cool
[08:07] <nhaines> Indie romance focuses a lot on character interactions, so banter is a big part of it, and I really enjoy that, because I'm pretty good at ad-libbing in real life anyway.
[08:08] <nhaines> I'm in a fight with the original author about the heroine discovering the terrible lie was actually hiding a heart of gold (cliché!) due to a printed email he accidentally left behind when he got kicked out.
[08:08] <nhaines> He claims no one prints emails, so it's totally implausible.
[08:08] <nhaines> I said "If you have an important email, you print it out and put it in a manila folder and then put that in a hanging folder so you can refer back to it in your filing cabinet if you want to look it up later."
[08:09] <nhaines> But actually the idea is it has travel itinerary plans or something with some notes.  He said he's just going to change it if I write it, and I said "I'm ghostwriting, so that's a you problem, not a me problem."
[08:10] <nhaines> Now that I think of it, when he asked "Why on earth would anybody ever print an email if they have a smartphone?" I should have said "You can't fax an email from a smartphone."
[08:10] <nhaines> I think I'll say that the next time it comes up.
[08:13] <DonkeyHotei> actually, you can
[08:13] <DonkeyHotei> there are many online fax services now
[08:13] <nhaines> Maybe, but he'll be upset at the idea that faxing is still a thing.
[08:14] <pleia2> nhaines: hah
[08:15] <pleia2> so I got a thinkpad bluetooth keyboard with a trackpoint
[08:15] <pleia2> just saw my tablet go all convergence for this first time!
[08:16] <pleia2> didn't do that when I had just my old keyboard paired
[08:16] <nhaines> Nope, needs a mouse or manual toggle for that.  :)
[08:18] <pleia2> TIL :)
[08:18] <nhaines> I probably should've picked up the Logitech keyboard with a trackpad.  But the keyboard-only one I got is a really decent, chunky keyboard, and since I write so much, that's probably for the best.
[08:18] <pleia2> I just don't want Yet Another Thing to charge
[08:18] <nhaines> pleia2: you can use the gear menu to toggle "Desktop Mode" on or off, if you don't like the default.  :)
[08:19] <pleia2> it was surprising and unsettling, haha
[08:19] <nhaines> Oh yeah.  These use standard rechargable, and I have plenty of those.
[08:19] <pleia2> my husband is like "I think it's a desktop now"
[08:19] <pleia2> he's pretty smart
[08:19] <pleia2> :)
[08:19] <nhaines> Haha, "Welcome to the new Ubuntu, same as the old Ubuntu."  :)
[08:20] <pleia2> alright, I should attempt sleep now
[08:20] <pleia2> good night DonkeyHotei and nhaines
[08:20] <nhaines> I did that at the last OCLUG meeting on a projector.  It was met with alarm and joy.
[08:20] <pleia2> nice
[08:20] <nhaines> In the vein of "Oh wow, that looks fantastic!  It's come so far from 2 months ago.  It's so polished now!"
[08:21] <nhaines> Okay, back to writing for me, too.  Good night!  :)
[19:53] <nhandler> pleia2: Still thinking ~30 people?
[19:53] <nhandler> (re: release party)
[19:54] <pleia2> nhandler: yeah
[19:55] <pleia2> I'll bug jono to do his famous person magic promoting
[20:51] <nhandler> pleia2: Doesn't look like we will be able to host an event of this size. They would like the events to be a bit larger to justify the security and overtime costs.
[20:51] <pleia2> nhandler: ok, thanks for trying