Spring COLT?

It seems that early in a year is when I tend to get somewhat back into working on the COLT. And then something happens (faire season, general laziness, whatever) to mess that up and I wind up even more behind than I was before.

Now that the comics are sorted and arranged (if not completely, nearly so.. still have to stow many) I've been starting in on the COLT again. So far it's just updating the Production Index - the list of WB numbers for the stories printed. But I do want to get back to actually writing up the issues and such. If I can keep at it, I will eventually catch up, right? Well, if I keep at it often enough.

jmaynard and I will be off to a hamfest in Madison, WI this weekend. I'm pondering taking my old laptop, shan, and a couple comic books along and seeing if I can maybe do something useful Saturday evening. The evening before a distant event is generally pretty much wasted, so I may as well try it. If I get nothing done, well, no change from the usual.

I didn't take my laptop with me anywhere last year, but Jay had his and could dial up with it, at least if the ISP covered the area we where in. Also, we've gotten to know many folks and tend to wind up going out for supper with some folks. Sometimes a low key thing on Friday. More often as part of an "invasion" (of a local restaurant) Saturday night. And Sunday night tends to have the drive back home.

So I guess I take shan with me a couple times and see how things work out. Shan isn't terribly powerful by today's standards (it's a 486DX75, I as I recall)but since all I plan to do is text editing, it's more than enough. If I actually get to using it, that is.

TLA acronyms and such.

ATM machine (Automatic Teller Machine machine)
LCD display (Liquid Crystal Display display)
(but LED display is okkay: Light Emitting Diode display)
AF, RF, IF frequency ({Audio, Radio, Intermediate} Frequency frequency)
OPEC countries (Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries countries)
PIN number (Personal Identification Number number)
START treaty (STrategic Arms Reduction Treaty treaty)
UPC code (Universal Product Code code)
VAT tax (Value Added Tax tax. Careful, some politician might just try to tax a tax.)
VIN number (Vehicle Identification Number number)
"Rate of speed" (speed of movement speed)