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Excerpt 3 from the Zero Notebook for The Iron Dragon's Mother. Jinx is a pretty neat character. I'm sorry I couldn't find a place for her in the novel. She looks like trouble, doesn't she?
And I have to apologize . . .
I promised to post these on every day I didn't have news and then got so caught up on writing chores I lost track of the blog entirely. My bad. I'll do better, I promise.
For a while, anyway.
Above: Third image. Seven to go.
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Some years ago, I was working with a friend and fellow-geologist at one of the big copper mines south of Tucson, logging core. He & I are about the same age, lived nearby and would sometimes share the drive: 45 minutes or so, catching up on life. Clarke was an interesting man, who (like me) had worked in a lot of places, and knew a LOT of people in the business. So: one or the other of us would struggle to recall a someone's name, or a place name, or a company name.... It became a running joke: we might not have Alzheimers, but it surely was Someheimers!
Hah! Every now and then, when I worry that I'm losing my memory, Marianne says, "Not to worry. You've ALWAYS been an airhead." A wife like that is a pearl beyond price.
When I start posting stuff like this, my wife asks, "are you off your meds again?" Um. No, dear....
Incidentally, I got a GR friend request TOD from a friend of a friend, a young (by my standards) woman who I've known since she was a little girl. She's the daughter of my college GF, who ended up marrying a classmate of both of us, all geologists (not her daughter, who's a systems engineer). A story from back then: my friend James, a sweet guy from Idaho and a real gentleman, asked me for permission to date Folly after we broke up! Like I said, a real gentleman. They are still married, 50+ years on. And the Engineer and her pal both love SF, and (say) they like my reviews. I did promote the Iron Dragon books to both girls! OK, youngish women...
And I've been re-connecting, and sharing stories, with my first grad-school room-mate, a woodworker in Charlottesville, who is coming up to his 50th anniversary with his wife, a fabulous beauty in her youth -- I first met her skinny-dipping at a farm-pond in VA. Whoa! Lucky guy, Byron is. And Kate is a sweet kid. Well, sweet old lady? My, how time flies....
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