Artists take note

NSS Space Settlement Calendar Art Contest

The National Space Society (NSS) is looking for artists to create visions of a spacefaring future — a future of space settlement, be it on the Moon, on Mars, on asteroids, or orbiting independently in space. To bring attention to our goal of creating a spacefaring future, NSS is sponsoring a contest for such artwork to be used in a calendar promoting a future of humans living and working in space. The best of the submitted artwork will be selected for inclusion in the 2008 NSS Space Settlement Calendar. Judges include world-renowned space artists David A. Hardy and Pat Rawlings.

The NSS Space Settlement Art Contest will run until January 31, 2007.

Winding down the year...

Got the last of the charity checks written this morning -- all 25 of them. I took this as an excuse to walk to the nearest post office, about 20 minutes away. I rarely go there; because of the way the streets are laid out, the one twice as far away is a little faster to drive to. And a little more convenient if I want to get on the freeway heading toward work afterwards.

For someone who loves to walk and has lived 30 years in the same house, I don't seem to have done much walking in the neighborhood. Of course, it's not a very pretty place to walk, either, and it isn't always safe. But still...

I haven't gotten everything much done that I wanted to, either. It's an open question whether I'll even have an album preorder form up by midnight. Probably not, though a little progress is being made. Hey, I got the directory up, at least!

For many of my friends, 2006 has been a horrible year; for others it's been wonderful. For all of us, here's hoping that 2007 is better.