Snow

[pbray]

Sadly unoriginal thread as I join with the rest of the Northeasters in reporting that I woke up this morning to significant snowfall. But I was also awoken by the sound of a snowblower. My neighbor, God bless him, had taken it upon himself to snowblow my walk and driveway, thus saving me from the weeks of chiropractic care that I could see in my not so distant future. He was also nice enough to do this when we had the January blizzard. It's impossible to thank someone like this too often.

Other than that, a cranky start to my day. I'm working from home which I hate. My writing room is for fiction writing, and I won't bring my day job into that room for fear of contaminating the room with bad vibes. So I'm out in the living room working off the coffee table, wishing my knees and hips were ten years younger. Make that twenty.

Also cranky because Barnes & Noble sent me an e-mail today telling me that they were unable to ship my order for "Crystal Soldier" since the publisher had changed the release date. They hoped to ship it "soon" and promised to update me on the status by e-mail within 30 days. Grr. I was looking forward to reading it this weekend. Of course with B&N, it's entirely possible that a) I will receive another note within 24 hours saying that they found the book and are shipping it, or b) they will simple cancel the order and never tell me. I've had both things happen with them when I pre-ordered books before their release date.

Meantime, think I need more coffee.

Happy March everyone.

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[rolanni.livejournal.com]

Also cranky because Barnes & Noble sent me an e-mail today telling me that they were unable to ship my order for "Crystal Soldier" since the publisher had changed the release date. They hoped to ship it "soon" and promised to update me on the status by e-mail within 30 days.

This is Truly Weird. The books are in the dern warehouse. And this is something that we know ourselves (as opposed to something we know from our publisher), because the nice young fellow in Roanoke looked it up on his computer for us.

B&N

[pbray.livejournal.com]

It's weirdness all around. Amazon.Com also reports this as not yet released. My local bricks & mortar B&N wasn't sure when they were getting copies in, which is why I had ordered on-line since I was ordering reference books at the same time.

Encouragingly the bricks & mortar store just restocked Balance of Trade with 4 new copies of the trade paperback over the weekend so clearly the distribution channel does work.

[jennifer-dunne.livejournal.com]

Snowblower??? You dog. You dirty, mud-encrusted, rolling-in-the-muck dog.

Still, I suppose it's the universe's karma in action, paying you back for that winter you kept coming over to shovel my drive after my surgery. So you deserve to opt out of a few driveway shovelings, now. And I can't really complain. Much. At least, no more than I already have.

I hear a constant roar in the background of snowblowers up and down the block. But do any of them offer to do my drive? No. Maybe I should drop some trees on them. It seemed to work for you...