worlds abound -- a short stories and fiction podcast

Ahhhh ... who doesn't love a bank holiday Monday? The weekend begins with the promise of an extra day off, which my mind never entirely believes -- it thinks that it's all a vicious plot to lull into some sort of recouperative slothfulness, whereupon a ton of work will get dumped on it when it least expects it -- Sunday rolls around, and it feels like a Sunday, but then you wake up Monday ... with nothing to do.

Finally ... The Voyage is ready and uploading to the server. This one took a while to get done, and is a not-so-short story, running at over an hour; but I'm pleased with the final result, and as always, Ms. K. did an excellent job reading the tale.

Preparations are almost complete for the month-long tour of New Zealand -- with a bit of Toyko thrown in for good measure. Let's see ... the checklist: yen, dollars, passport, tickets (well, one of the three of us going has them), driver's licence, obligatory guidebook(s), insurance, accomodation bookings. Check, check, check and check. And don't forget the camera and small pile of memory sticks! I sense a photographic frenzy looming on this trip ...