and tax return done

The UK tax return, that is. The US one still awaits me...

Since the filing cabinet's getting a bit full, I thought I'd do a bit of a weed on the older files in there. That includes ancient market guidelines from ten years ago, when I was amusing myself with the erotica short story markets. And yes, I do mean actual porn here in some cases, although some of the niche fetish markets tended to be oddly sweet in their way. I always meant to try some of those as a writing exercise, but of course once I found a market for the novellas and short novels that are my natural length, that's what I focused on.

Just looked up one of those niche fetish markets. It's long gone, which is a shame, because I'm pretty sure that's one where even though it's not my kink (or even gender orientation), I still enjoyed the art and stories as art. The site url is still there, but now it's your bog-standard porn cumshot site, and if the original site content was ever archived I can't find it. Of course, the markets newsletter where I found it in the first place has also gone the same way, although at least there the archive still exists. Such is the way of the web.

Eastercon -- arrival day

kalypso_v and I failed to co-ordinate our hotel booking when buying our Eastercon memberships, which means we now have to decide whether to retain the Thursday night booking or not. One of the main reasons for my putting down Thursday was the habit so many Redemptioners have gotten into of arriving on Thursday evening for a con. So it would be useful to know which day folk intend to arrive this year. :-)

Rather than simply ask that question, I shall play with the poll creator on DW and LJ, and get some use out of my paid account features....

Ah. It appears that the standard cross-poster gives me a linkie on the LJ mirror back to the poll on DW, which I don't think is what happened when I tried it back in beta mode. It's set so that anyone can answer, but only my DW access list can see the results.

Poll #9194

Open to: Registered Users, detailed results viewable to: Access List, participants: 7

What days are you planning to be at Eastercon 2012?

Thursday
3 (42.9%)

Friday
4 (57.1%)

Saturday
3 (42.9%)

Sunday
3 (42.9%)

Monday
3 (42.9%)

some other option
2 (28.6%)

what's Eastercon?
1 (14.3%)

cats!
2 (28.6%)

Eastercon -- it's Friday

When we looked at what was practical to fit in around possible other commitments, and what the train fares were on Thursday evening compared with Friday morning, the choice became obvious.... So we're getting there early on Friday, and leaving late on Monday. Looking forward to seeing people. :-)