Gee...only 21 days later

First. A moment of silence for my van. The noble steed that has served me well lo these many years and hauled enough convention gear in the last five years to get a "Special Thanks" credit the next time a Dreah story runs, has been gasping through the winter and is quickly approaching the breaking point. This time it was a side tank on the radiator but once that is fixed by this weekend, there's other maladies that can only get worse as the cost is too much in light of her age and 260,000 miles.

1995 Pontiac Transport...we salute you.








On to other things. The radiator issues were merely a capper to a mother of a week that included...

1) A 10 hour day when a part timer called in. (Tuesday)
2) The ABC reciever being dead as a hammer when I came in Wednesday morning, leading to an unexpected live airshift as I tried to get things fixed.
3) The van overheating, requiring the trip to the garage where I had to leave it overnight. (Thursday)
4) Garage calls...the mechanic tells me it's just the heater core...because the floorboard is wet. I tell him that's because it hasn't fully dried from where we replaced the heater core a month ago. He promises to get the van back in to look around some more. He doesn't...van spends another night there. Also, power supply on main computer in the studio blows up...literally. (Fri.)
5) Thought it was a loose hose. It's a cracked side tank. They suggest a $300 new radiator. Manage to get van back to Illinois. (Saturday)
6) Tubes on FM transmitter start to crap out on us. Station is still on 70% - 90% power until station owner gets back from vacation to okay tube purchase.

This week hasn't been too bad. Actually getting some writing done and more Miss Vicky pencils are showing up. Hope you all are faring better.

Spring = Insanity

Just ducking in long enough for a quick update.

Nothing like the last minute Department: High School Baseball starts 3/23. When did the sales card for the station's baseball coverage get done? 3/9...about two hours ago.

Speaking of last minute Department: Still trying to get SD booth under control. GAAHHHH!

What I'm working on Department: Other than sales packages that should've been done by the home office months ago? How about the TOP SECRET screenplay Barry and I came up with? (Insert evil laugh) Also prepping a few other items. Sending Sarge the overall "Billie" plot today as well. (Hopefully) The new Blambot "pay font" for March would be perfect for this book.

Gotta run. I'll be back later with more details.