What forest? What trees?

After the rain

After the rain
Originally uploaded by erikorama.

Outline of Mini Cooper in parking lot.

Publishers and agents

The only reason I still have a dedicated fax line in my home office is because I work with publishers on occasion. They send contracts as faxes. Apparently they're not familiar with PDFs.

And just now I was trying to track down a literary agent in New York. Found his website, and here's what it says: "This site is under construction and will launch summer 2006." (Today's date is November 1, 2006. Summer long gone.) Clearly no one is paying attention to this unborn site. And that says a lot about the company itself.

Erik in ghillie veil

Erik in ghillie veil
Originally uploaded by erikorama.

The bitmapped camo pants.

Halloween at Winchester St.

Annette in Ghillie veil
Originally uploaded by erikorama.

On Halloween Annette and I try to dress up a bit for the kids who come to the house for candy. Annette had these two ghillie veils left over from some project she'd been working on. Hunters use them to hide in the brush. Snipers use them, too. We used them to scare some little kid in a dinosaur outfit. Then I had to go out and buy some camouflage pants to complete the outfits and I got a pair with a bitmapped camo design. Even analog pants have gone digital.