River: eddies in the flow

There's nothing quite like the thrill I get when something I've written comes back to me unexpected. It happened this morning when cflute quoted a line I had written in a comment a couple of days ago.

The scenery is beautiful, the rapids terrifying but exhilarating, and the deep water is wonderfully clear.

I was so delighted I called her as soon as I could, ignoring my usual fear (or do I need to demote that to "dislike" now?) of phones. And forgetting about her later post, which flower_cat had picked up on immediately as calling for cheering-up. Did I mention that we tend to notice entirely different things?

I still need to do that more often.

I think the first time something like this happened, it was an offhand remark I'd made in a Usenet post that wound up in somebody's signature quotes file a week or two later. Late 1980's, it would have been.

No, you don't have to ask. Go ahead and quote me.

Just what I need: another project

After spending maybe a little too much time last night and this morning struggling with "Waltz", and reluctantly deciding that some of my favorite turns of phrase simply didn't fit the flow, I ended up spending my entire lunchtime walk re-casting Hackers' Heaven so that it could be done as a Tres Gique concert. It all fell out from my realization a day or two ago that I could easily rationalize Lady Melody (the AI guitar) having two voices, an alto and a soprano. It means rewriting huge chunks of the backstory, but that needed to be done anyway. And the song intros all turn into blog entries.

(Aside: Don't worry if you're not following this: I'm trying to write it down before I get back to work and forget it.)

( most of the lead-in )

I probably ought to get some work done, oughtn't I?

7:36 ... and realizing today that I could have "Silk and Steel" written by Lexy (the daughter) as a Mother's Day present, and sung by Melody, thus avoiding the need for an additional male voice.