I spent the day mostly doing what I planned on doing yesterday: working on the layout of Kaleidotrope‘s next issue, the last one that’s likely to need this particular type of layout. I started, way back in 2006, creating issues entirely in Microsoft Word, but at least half of them have since been built in Microsoft Publisher. It doesn’t have all the bells and whistles of a Quark or PageMaker, but it also didn’t come with their hefty price tags. I didn’t finish, and I’m still waiting on a couple of stories, but I’m keeping my fingers crossed that I can have copies in the mail and to reviewers before the month’s end.
Maybe by then the weather will actually start seeming like October.
Otherwise… I mowed the front and back lawn, hopefully for the last time this season. (Fall’s gotta start sometime right?) I bought some overpriced caramel corn outside the post office to support the local Cub Scouts. I got a shirt back from the cleaners completely ripped down the back, with the not at all satisfactory explanation that “it must have come to them like that.” (They didn’t charge me, but the shirt’s ruined, thrown in the garbage.) And I watched The 39 Steps, a thoroughly enjoyable Hitchcock thriller.
A quiet not especially eventful Saturday — the shirt and lawn notwithstanding — but a decent one.