The Blog of Xangis

I started out the day by sleeping in and finishing A Crown of Swords (The Wheel of Time, Book 7) and then grabbing my traditional morning bagel and coffee. The relaxativeness of the morning was quickly shattered when my slave-driving boss (also known as “me”) started cracking the whip.

First he made me build a basic site setup, write the guidelines, and create a submission form and database for Vortex Temporum, the second publication I’m creating, sibling to All Possible Worlds. APW is fantasy and science fiction, while Vortex Temporum will be historical fiction, alternate timelines, and “steampunk”. It’ll also be electronic only. I expect it’ll have a smaller circulation than APW, but how will I know until it’s out there?

While I was working on that site I also set up Google Analytics for that and the APW and ZC sites. At one point a few months ago I had intended to set up analytics, but had since forgot that it existed. Luckily my friendgeek Jeremy reminded me that they exist.

Not content to let me rest on that significant accomplishment, he threatened to beat me if I didn’t do some work on building my audio sample library. I opened up the sampler toolkit code project I’ve been working on slackeresquely over the past few months, polished it up a bit, and then used it to trigger and record about three hours worth of audio from my VZ-10m synthesizer (which will edit down a LOT smaller, but it’s still a ton of data).

So I said to him, “That’s enough for today, right?

Boy was I in for a surprise.

By the time I was done, I had added “The Adventures of Peter Pan”, “Round The Moon”, “Master and Man”, and “Father Sergius” to fictionclassics.com.

I really like my newly-rebuilt computer. I can’t believe I ever got by without dual monitors and a dual core processor before, especially the way I like to do a bunch of things at once. For instance, at one point today I was triggering samples, recording audio, playing Eve Online (which bears a remarkable similarity to ProgressQuest), editing web pages and word documents, and alternating between watching videos on YouTube and listening to Winamp.

My boss is still a jerk, though.