11.21.06
Mouth + Foot = Furry
OK, two things. Last night (or this morning, by how WP reckons) I mentioned that I thought City of Heroes’ Issue 8 would be out today. Naturally, this evening, Lighthouse (one of the NCSoft Dev Liaisons) says that I8 is set for a post-Thanksgiving launch. So, wrong on one.
Also today, I made a bet that one of the three current players in the industry would not be making a return engagement when the next run of consoles comes around. While that’s a good five years off, I was immediately told that I was going to lose the bet. With the penalty being that I would have to camp out for all three systems and buy them on launch day, only to immediately donate them to a charity such as Child’s Play or Get Well Gamers. Honestly? There’s no real “loser” in that kind of a bet. (Besides, I’ve always wanted to camp out for a console, and money restricted me from doing so this time around.) I’m not going to sweat the outcome. But I am, naturally, going to remember it.
Oh, and I’m still working on getting the outline together for Incon. My plan is to read through the story so far tonight, and re-formulate the chain of events. The current goal is the end of January to have a finished manuscript. I already think I know what parts are going to have to be cut/re-written, but I’m leaving them as-is for now to make sure that I don’t accidentally cut something that a publisher would think was gold.