Not-quite Bonnie

Apparently all the rain we’ve been getting lately (2.3″ at the airport yesterday, a record for that day) is because of a tropical depression that still could become Tropical Storm Bonnie if it manages to muster up a little more strength. Things are getting soggy around here, with some local street flooding, but nothing we haven’t seen a hundred times before.

I installed the Kindle app on my iPod Touch and downloaded a free eBook from Amazon: The Mysterious Island by Jules Verne, which I’ve never read before. I like the horizontal finger swipe way of changing pages.

I downloaded No Frills by Nik Kershaw last night and then updated iTunes on my laptop, a lumbering old creature that only has a 24 Gig hard drive. It wheezes and gasps over anything onerous, like iTunes. Took the better part of an hour to upgrade. Then I tried to upgrade my iPod Touch to 4.0 but the computer hung up during the download, so I’ll have to try again tonight. No Frills is great. Highly recommended. Just a guy, his guitar and some terrific songs.

If you’re in the Houston area the weekend after next with some time on your hands, I’m giving a mini-symposium for the Houston Writers Guild. The name of the talk is Skills Learned on the Path to Publication, and will essentially be a retrospective of the past 10-11 years, from before my first published work. The presentation takes place at the Sugar Land library on Saturday, July 17th from 10:30 a.m. to 1:00 p.m. Nonmembers: $35 or free for HWG members.