On Process

I have never considered myself a business person, a networker, someone much able to start or run a small business.

But I have had conference calls with my fellows every week. I was the one to make sure we all knew that price point depended not on what will make the most money, but on what people will consider reasonable to pay, because if it's not reasonable, they won't pay at all.

I am meeting deadlines and working ahead.

I am brainstorming new content.

I am self-promoting.

We have the point worked out at which profit means it's reasonable to start an LLC as we've passed the hobby threshold.

I am not writing for a personal game or larp, for a hobby, for an audience of one.

We are writing for keeps, and we were too busy to notice the transition. Always easier to see those milestones in hindsight.

Tea Blending

Today is Assam blended with some Twining's loose leaf Darjeeling.  Milk and sugar to cut it.  I needed a pick me up, as it's been too damn hot to sleep.

Watching TV versions of graphic movies is an exercise in memory and frustration.  They've cut out so many chunks of Pitch Black that the plot line, thready as it is, is completely gone.  At least Vin Diesel's character bits as Riddick are mostly intact, and still entertaining.

A handful of today

Today's tea, chrysanthemum tuo cha pu-erh.  I don't have a photo, as I was sharing it at a friend's house who I spent the night with.  He's not a tea drinker, but he has a little gong-fu set because I gave him one I didn't use.

It may not be reasonable, but who doesn't want to grow up to be the most bad-ass pirate who ever lived?

If you care about fashion, make a point to watch Bill Cunningham New York.  It's streaming free of Netflix.  I think his best quote was, to paraphrase, that fashion is important because it is the armor we need to survive in this world.  For me, that is simply so true.  I dress to be the protagonist of my life, and clothing as armor just resonates.

War, war never changes

It seems I still will pick up far too many books if I venture into a library.  I've been reading pretty exclusively on my iPhone for the past year.  I wonder if it'll feel weird to have a bunch of big, physical books.

The tea is a Taiwanese oolong.  I picked it up in Chicago's Chinatown a few years back.  Initially I was worried that I'd waited too long to drink it.  The first infusion was almost hay-like with a nutty under taste.  Subsequent infusions have yielded a very honey and fruity tea with continuing toasty under tastes.  Very nice on this sunny afternoon.