Hello, Kay;

05 Aug 05 15:00, Kay Shapero wrote to Robert Bull:

 KS>>> himself.  Sigh...)  Finally someone asked him exactly which part
 KS>>> of the engine the oil belongs to and he seems to have caught on

 KS> For years I've used that as a metaphor for common courtesy, especially
 KS> around folks who don't see the use of it.  Lube oil doesn't steer the
 KS> car, start the car, stop the car, or make the engine run... but watch
 KS> everything freeze up if you leave it out.

The word "belongs" might be a problem.  You could still have a problem 
making the high and mighty see why -they- need oiling...

 KS> When I first started this, I really did have an Art Show director who
 KS> would try to micromanage everything and forget to sleep, sometimes
 KS> starting the con in that condition.  She was considerably past the
 KS> teenage geek stage, but not far enough I guess.  Fortunately someone

Sounds like an ego trip!

 KS> position in the first place was a non-staff member but close friend of
 KS> most of ours who got so worked up at the con that he went aphasic for
 KS> a bit.  Sleep dispelled it, thankfully.  This scared him into behaving

 KS> Be it noted that it doesn't have to be a teenager - it is very easy
 KS> for anybody actually working a convention to forget when they last ate
 KS> or slept.  You get focused on the job.

I have difficulty in imagining getting that heavily involved, but that's 
just me...

 KS> During which time you drink water frequently whether you feel thirsty
 KS> or not, or you get dehydrated. And ice water will also cool you down
 KS> more effectively than room temperature.  These days most dealers I run
 KS> into have the sense to bring along their own drinkables, but I still
 KS> get plenty of takers.

I was told to drink 6 pints per day, with coffee counted as neutral 
(because diuretic) but tea OK.  For most of us over here, that's a LOT of 
fluid.

 KS> CBIP (about 4/5 - it's an ebook and mobipocket does weird things with

Is mobipocket your Palm e-book reader?

 KS> Before this, I read _The Shiva Option_ by Steve White and David Weber
 KS> (in The Stars At War II)... and I'm not sure why I bothered to finish.
 KS> Space battles between titanic fleets throwing mighty acronyms at each
 KS> other, leaving shattered planets in their wake... and cardboard

:-))

 KS> used but weren't and why. It's three years old, copyright 2002; maybe
 KS> nobody bothered to reread it before deciding to reissue it, even as

Sounds like it belongs to the 1950s, or even earlier.

CBIP:  THE BURNING STONE  by  Kate Elliott  (726/916)
     Book 3 of the first trilogy.  Yes, there's another to come!  While 
     there are times when I wondered if things could have been more 
     compact, I think I'm glad they aren't, and maybe I should just have 
     waited for longer winter evenings.  What I thought were minor 
     characters there to give a viewpoint keep getting lives and becoming 
     significant players.  She's doing a good job keeping several plot 
     lines going, and keeps doing things I didn't expect.

 KS> Oh well, I just heard from the Library and the copy of Lois McMaster
 KS> Bujold's _The Hallowed Hunt_ I reserved is in, so I get to read THAT
 KS> next.

I picked up Robin Hobb's latest, SHAMAN'S CROSSING, from our library, so 
that's probably next.

     Regards,

              Robert.

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