Month: June 2014

LOTA shipping day 2

LOTA shipping is complete. We have about three odds-and-ends packages to take care of when Howard gets back from his trip, but everything else is in the mail.

I’m still sick. I started being sick the day before the first shipping. Muscled through on medicine. Slept and lay around for most of the day in between. Then sort of zombie walked my way through today making sure that I did not contaminate any of the shipping crew or packages.

This is where I must sing the praises of my shipping crew. They show up smiling. They work cheerfully. They lend me energy when I have none. They’ve come so often that they know how things work, so I can zombie walk with confidence because they have my back. Had I been a hair or two more sick, I would have called in Janci. She would have come and saved me, even though I know how insanely busy her schedule is this month. Or I maybe I would have just put Kiki in charge, she’s proving to be highly competent. Fortunately its all done.

Then I came home where the kids cleaned up the kitchen, fed me dinner, and sent me to bed.

I am so grateful for the good people who surround me.

LOTA shipping day 1

We sent out two thirds of the preordered LOTA books today. All of the unsketched and sketched with LOTA, Artist Choice, Ebby, TAG, Pi, and Para are in the mail. Thursday will be the final shipping day. All the rest of the orders will go out then.

This means my brain is fried. On top of the usual shipping brain fry, I’m also sick. So I don’t have a whole lot of complex thoughts right now. I do have a small smugness, to which Howard tells me I am entitled. Yesterday when I was printing postage there was a moment where I stared at the box and wondered if I’d printed enough. I looked at the stack, thought about the hours allotted, thought about who was coming to help, and realized it felt about right. My instinct was almost perfectly accurate. I used to have to stress and do math to figure out how much work to stage for a shipping day. I’ve now internalized the processes enough that I can eyeball it. Strange that my life had let me to a place where I have this expertise, but useful all things considered.

So I’m taking my small smugness to bed where we will sleep until tomorrow when I’ll begin lining up work for Thursday.