Dateline: above the garage in Portsmouth RI, 18 January 2005
Where to begin?
Up at 0545 and out the door to airport to catch SWA to BWI. Driver from CNN late, so I scout around the find February issue of WIRED. The cover story is about Firefox the web browser.
But way cooler for me personally, of course, is my first article for the magazine on on page 29.
Here's the accompanying artwork and the title with subtitle.
You wanna read the text, buy the magazine like I did! I'll post it in full down the road, after the next issue appears (or maybe after I cash the check . . .).
So that was pretty cool to read. Also two great articles in the issue about the coming "Conceptual Age" and the future of nuclear power by futurist Peter Schwartz and Spencer Reiss.
Driver shows up and we're off to CNN. Get there plenty early (1100) and so change into black suit and hang out in Green Room, watching Condi Rice hearings and working the outline for tomorrow's writing session (6th 0f 18). Kenneth Pollack shows up just after noon.
Then it starts to hit me: this thing is going long--really long. About 12:40 the producer comes in and says the segment is cancelled. After "Hardball" last night and getting up so early this morning and driving in the cold, you would think I would explode, but I was in the zone thinking about the book the whole way there, so I just swapped out the clothes, got back in the car and went to BWI, where . . . I just made the 2:35 flight back except it was cancelled!
Still, the Zen-like state continues because the planning for tomorrow's writing is going so well.
On the plane I write out all the big ideas on sticky notes and stick them all over the seat backs in front of me and along the bulkhead. Drink a free Heiny with coupons. Drive home, speaking to my webmaster on the way about the other nominees in the WIRED "Rave" category of Author. Pretty sure I can't attend, and doubt I can con Mark into going, especially since he'll be busy with Vol. II at that point, so I may have to send my webmaster if the magazine is okay with that and is willing to pay. Someone might as well check out the Fillmore hotel in San Fran.
After dinner with family, finish the book planning for the day, and listen to my interview on NPR (see previous post below), which I am pleased with.
So, all in all, a good day. Was on NPR two times. Got to see new article in WIRED. Got nominated for a "Rave." Got blown off by CNN thanks to Condi Rice (may re-sked a remote for Friday), and heard back from "Hardball" that they want to retape the segment next week sometime. Plus two bumpy flights, a nice beer, and I'm ready to write tomorrow.
That's about all I can handle for one day.
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