Hello Weird! It's been a while since I was here last. I didn't forget you guys, it's just that life took over. I had to pretend to be a grown adult while I was away. Let me tell you, it wasn't fun.


The biggest changes that folks who've been here might know:

• Spotlette is now 11! She's a fantastic student and gets A+s on everything (except Music, which is a solid A, no +s in sight). She's also been dancing her heart out in ballet and has actually performed on stage for about 4 years now.
• My lovely senior cat, Mocha, aka The Queen of the Known Universe, has crossed the rainbow bridge a few weeks ago. She was a ripe old 18 years of age, and was in kidney failure for the last 2-3 months. She also had heart issues along with severe hip and back leg problems due to arthritis. My poor little sweetheart. We tried to keep her comfortable towards the end, but the last couple of days with her broke my heart. She passed away held in my arms, with Spotlette and Mr. Spot holding a paw each.
• A year and half ago, our neighborhood indoor/outdoor cat had kittens and we adopted one from the litterL Cinder. she's a gray tabby mix with some maine coon in her, as well as a bit of an orange cat gene (aka I've met rocks smarter than her). She's a feisty, spicy, and super mischievous little cat now. Since her mom stopped nursing her around 8 weeks, she loves nursing on her hoomins for comfort. She absolutely adored Mocha (although they used to fight a lot) and it was difficult to get her to start eating and playing again after Mocha passed.
• I'm still a workaholic, but following a serious health issue in 2020, I have started limiting my workdays to 8 hours.

((Dina!))

Thought so when I didn't hear back from someone immediately. I got your email in response to mine. I'll write back this weekend.


How's your day going?

Shiny new Weird! Yay!

Given that most of Jim's work is available in audio book format, I would think this one would be as well.

I went to Audible and searched: "The Cinder Spires: the Aeronaut's Windlass". It found THE BOOK (give me the book), so I log into Audible and it says: "We're sorry. Due to publishing rights restrictions, we are not authorized to sell this item in the country where you live." That sucks I cannot pre-order yet, however it does kind of hint that it will be available at some point.
If you want the spectacularly vague page: http://www.audible.com/pd/Sci-Fi-Fantasy/The-Aeronauts-Windlass-Audiobook/B00XKCNARK/ref=a_search_c4_1_1_srTtl?qid=1432580337&sr=1-1

I'm able to preorder this version, so I think if you are in the US or Canada this link should work.

Apparently Russian hackers get bored easily.

Sorry, bad joke. I have no idea. There's a lot of Russian-language hacking happening over on LiveJournal too. I have no clue why.

Here it is:
  WalterBernThey've started this spammy topic: http://www.jimbutcheronline.com/bb/index.php/topic,44656.0/topicseen.html

I'd assume so. There's usually a countdown leading up to the release date.

Priscellie may have more information about these.

Four to six months would be my guess.

Yes, you're right. 4 to 6 months sounds correct, 2 months not so much. In my defense, I was undercaffeinated.

Google says May 7th, 2015.  And Google is never wrong. 

Indeed.