I’m sitting here at my desk with the laptop at the moment because vista decided that I needed a disk check. That’s a 250g disk, and it wouldn’t let me “click any button to exit the check” …bastards. Luckily I have this spiffy Mac that I have yet to call names aside from that time where I was looking for something and had no idea where it was or what it was called and I may have said something not so nice. Networking sucks.
I’ve been tossing around some ideas here on paper and digitally, and I think I’m on my way to something that might actually work. I’m not going to go too nuts and I think short stories are in order to help flesh out some bits and solidify the environment. I did pick up a great book for the kid this morning, and being that he’s at his dad’s tonight, I will have time to read it before handing it over and hearing the whole story before I get a chance to even crack the cover like most of the books he gets. Larklight, by Phillip Reeve, so far I’m laughing hysterically at it and the whole space pirate thing is brilliant. If you ever wanted a great book to get kids into classic steampunk, this would be a great place to start. I’ve also dug out a copy of the Difference Engine, by William Gibson, in case he wants to try something a bit more challenging. Personally I love Gibson, but his writing is very dense. We’ll see if the kid gets that far. 
