The Master (reprise)

[mdlbear]

I am currently listening to the master for Coffee, Computers, and Song! "Little Computing Machine" needed one last tweak, so I had to burn a couple more (on the good media, thank you -- next time I'll buy the really good stuff; recommendations gladly accepted). I burned one on the Samsung drive in Trantor, and another on the Plextor on Harmony. The Plextor won, which was a little surprising. Both wanted to run at 8x; that may be a media thing.

Tomorrow I'll run it up to work -- we get a discount from UPS, and they pick up every afternoon. Then I hop on a plane to Portland. This time tomorrow I'll be at OSCon, and my master will be on a plane to Oasis in New Jersey. Hopefully by this time next week my artwork will be on a server somewhere at Oasis, and on its way to an offset press.

There are flaws. Unlike some folks on my flist, I'm not really in a position to say it's entirely made of awesome, but it's all pretty good, and parts of it are excellent. cflute's vocals on "Silk and Steel" are heartbreakingly beautiful, "Vampire Mega-Byte" has some cool special effects (if I may say so), my kids (who appear to have inherited my inability to sing consistently on key) come together so sweetly at the end of "Daddy's World" that any earlier flaws are entirely forgiven.

If I were starting now, it would be much better and take a lot less time. But it wouldn't be on its way to a date with destiny dare we hope ConChord? the duplicators. Tomorrow.

It's still available for pre-order. For a little less than a month.

Why do I feel like I just jumped off a cliff? Am I really crazy enough to get started on the next one? Where am I going, and what am I doing in this handbasket?

Comments

[randwolf.livejournal.com]

Well, great!

[hms42]

Congratulations on getting the project done. I do understand how hard it is to get a CD tweaked JUST right to be published.

I will be informing a couple of dealers for you when its available for them... (If you get them back in time, I know some may make it to Worldcon with a dealer.)

Harold

[selenesue.livejournal.com]

I'm hoping you have it at Con Chord. See you there!

[catsittingstill.livejournal.com]

Whoo hoo! Congratulations!

[kayshapero]

ConChord? That'd be nice.... Good you've about got it finished, there.