{"id":35222,"date":"2019-10-11T08:39:23","date_gmt":"2019-10-11T12:39:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/?p=35222"},"modified":"2022-01-10T00:39:16","modified_gmt":"2022-01-10T05:39:16","slug":"the-good-news-the-bad-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/2019\/10\/11\/the-good-news-the-bad-news\/","title":{"rendered":"The Good News, The Bad News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"33315\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/2018\/10\/30\/i-can-fly-twice-as-high-aka-my-halcon-2018-recap\/image1-2\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/image1-2.jpeg?fit=2048%2C1533&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"2048,1533\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;1.8&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;iPhone X&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;1540815412&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;4&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;25&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;8.3001328021248E-5&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"image1-2\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/image1-2.jpeg?fit=300%2C225&amp;ssl=1\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/image1-2.jpeg?fit=700%2C524&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-33315\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/image1-2.jpeg?resize=700%2C524\" alt=\"\" width=\"700\" height=\"524\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/image1-2.jpeg?w=2048&amp;ssl=1 2048w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/image1-2.jpeg?resize=300%2C225&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/image1-2.jpeg?resize=768%2C575&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/image1-2.jpeg?resize=1024%2C767&amp;ssl=1 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\" \/>Life brings a steady stream of news, good and ill, and so today I bring you a fistful of each &#8212; which to open first? I suppose a spoonful of sugar, and all that.<\/p>\n<p>Wait, do I have a spoonful in the fistful? I think I&#8217;m mixing metaphors. WHATEVER.<\/p>\n<p>The good news: this weekend I&#8217;ll be at both the Morristown Book Festival\u00a0<em>and<\/em> the Bucks County Book Fest. At Morristown tomorrow, I&#8217;m doing a Star Wars panel with Jason Fry at 12 noon, and then I and Rob Hart will be chatting about\u00a0<strong>Wanderers\u00a0<\/strong>and\u00a0<strong>The Warehouse<\/strong> respectively, and that is at 3PM. (Full Morristown schedule <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RosemaryMosco\/status\/1182631989310033922\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a>.) We&#8217;ll be signing after, I believe? I assume? Yeah. And at Bucks, I&#8217;m appearing on Sunday, at a 3pm sci-fi panel with Josiah Bancroft and Mike Slater. Signing after.<\/p>\n<p>The\u00a0<em>bad<\/em> news is &#8212;<\/p>\n<p>Hey, remember how I was going to the Surrey Writer&#8217;s Conference outside of Vancouver at the end of the month? Given everything with my mother&#8217;s passing and the move, it became just too untenable, and there&#8217;s too much going on, so I woefully had to back out. I know! I know. It&#8217;s\u00a0<em>such\u00a0<\/em>a great festival and I was going to hang with pals like Delilah Dawson and Eric Smith, but it unfortunately it&#8217;s just *gestures chaotically* right now. (Extra bummer for me, I was heading up there to check out the UBC Heirloom Apple festival so that&#8217;s a small gut punch to miss it.) This also ruins my curious pattern of going to Canada every dang October. I HAVE BROKEN THE PROPHECY AND NOW I DO NOT KNOW WHAT HAPPENS NEXT.<\/p>\n<p>So, if you were heading there to see me &#8212; well, I won&#8217;t be there. But again, to boomerang back some good news, it is an absolutely amazing conference which you surely already know and so the lack of me won&#8217;t impact your experience at all &#8212; you&#8217;ll get so much out of it by the end you&#8217;ll wonder why you even cared about me at all.<\/p>\n<p>(Answer: my luxurious, well-unguented beard. That&#8217;s why.)<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, updates will at some point get more regular here as grief and chaos abate.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m also nesting on some cool news like a patient hen, and at some point these eggs will hatch.<\/p>\n<p>Onward, we go.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Life brings a steady stream of news, good and ill, and so today I bring you a fistful of each &#8212; which to open first? I suppose a spoonful of sugar, and all that. Wait, do I have a spoonful in the fistful? I think I&#8217;m mixing metaphors. WHATEVER. The good news: this weekend I&#8217;ll [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-35222","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"hentry","6":"category-theramble","8":"no-featured-image"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pv7MR-9a6","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35222","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35222"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35222\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35226,"href":"https:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35222\/revisions\/35226"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35222"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35222"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35222"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}