Since I can, here are the entries I typed in over the last 12 hours of my journey here.

I'm in Denver airport. I am hooked into their wifi network, but I can't get out to the public internet unless I'm willing to pay $9.99 for 24 hours or more for more access. I'm not. The cool thing is for free you can access flight information and stuff like that. I'm sitting at the gate right behind Willie Loman, who is working some sort of deal on the cell phone. He's called 6 people saying exactly the same thing about this contract and wording that they absolutely won't change. Each call he makes sure to tell people that he's about to get on a plane. Is this crap tied into his self worth? DUnno. Although I grew up around salesmen and salesman types, yet what makes them tick remains a mystery to me.

Like the dolt I am, I forgot to bring the leftover Reality Break 1/2 page flyers from Dragon*Con. Aargh! The only way realistically I can have any made without a huge pain in the ass would be to make one up before I head to downtown PDX, print it out at Kinko's and then run a few off. A hundred or two should be plenty. I had offered to pony flyers for Fictionwise as I have for the last two Dragon*cons. Since they don't want to do this, I had this odd brainstorm about drawing up my own flyers and/or including a general link on mine to "Shop at Fictionwise." The URL I'd present would be for something on EvilGenius, which would be a PHP script that just redirected to Fictionwise except with my affiliate ID in it. Is this cheezy! I don't know. It seems reasonable enough, especially as an experiment. In essense, I'm printing up the flyers on spec, hoping I can drum up more business for them such that my affiliate take exceeds my printing costs. It feels weird, but I might do it anyway. This way I can actually do my own tracking - I'll know exactly how many hits came in from my server logs.

Now I'm on the plane. I'm on a plane, yes I'm on a plane. I'm listening to the PsychOut and Personality Crisis episodes from October still, continuing where I was in order since the last trip to PDX two weeks ago. This I will admit I enjoy just for the pure geekery of it all. I'm getting to work on the flyers. I think I have the full Acrobat installed on the Win98 partition, but I don't really feel like rebooting this beast. I'll suffer with Word (which sucks). God help me, I wish I had access to the soft copy of these damn flyers.

I have a flyer that I don't hate, but I sure as hell don't like it much. It's kind of bland and I'm worried that it isn't going to print very well. I'm not too proud to cut the damn thing up and tape it down before I make the copies. I can get into a little old school cut-and-paste, with real scissors and paste. I may be one of the youngest people who has actually done extensive editing via slicing 1/4" tape and splicing it back together. Much younger than me and if you do audio editing, you do it digitally. But, I digress. I may noodle with the flyer a little more. I've saved off a copy of something that I'm willing to distribute but am entire unenthusiastic about.

I have solved the Fictionwise dilemma. I have a little space at the bottom, so I put in a link to http://www.evilgeniuscorp.com/fictionwise/ which will do the affiliate redirection. This way the flyers do double duty. I've also decided that yes, this is cheezy and yes, I am willing to be cheezy. It's one of my stronger traits, I think.

I'm a few hundred (ebook) pages into the annotated Fire Upon the Deep. I'm liking this book a lot, although I believe I'm going to read all the way through before examining any of the annotations. After finishing it, exploring those will be a whole other level of experience.

Here's a problem begging for a solution. I have 4 different rechargeable devices on my person at this moment; laptop, iRiver SlimX, a Handspring Visor Prism and a Nokia 3390 cell phone. I have 4 different chargers with me. I'm not 100% sure if I could currently buy a single universal charger at an electronics store that would do all those, but wouldn't it be nice if you had one device that was both a charger for all these via AC and also had it's own storage as kind of an uber-battery. I think they may have these for laptops, but if it was flexible enough to allow you to plug into any arbitrary device, dial in the voltage and wattage, and go DC to DC to all these devices. I'd pay money for that, and even if it was a little bulky, it wouldn't be as bulky as 4 different chargers, all of which have big ass plugs associated with them.