My age is telling...

The last few days have been really vicious on me. I was keeping myself on East Coast time with my body clock but apparently my inner workings didn't like that. It started with my flight to Seattle winding up being nearly 45 minutes late. So I didn't effectively get to be till after 3am, so I think I got adjusted to West Coast and just didn't realize it.

At the Seattle Book Fair everything was going great...till one dealer lost his labels and couldn't figure out if he'd packed them or thrown them away. So I scrambled to find a solution that only pissed off other people. But couldn't be helped. Also, one dealer was going back to London but I could not find a heat-treated pallet to build them onto (it's required for int'l shipments), so that's something else that needed to be taken care of, Monday. When I could not be there.

Because Monday, I was getting up at 5am to catch a 7am flight so I could get to San Francisco early enough to handle a pickup. And I really felt like I was getting up at 5am.

Then the pickup went completely wrong and I wound up having to bring 32 boxes of books down a very awkward set of stairs to pack them into my car. Fortunately, Avis handed me a Dodge Charger (with 70,000 miles on it!) but that trunk and back seat were big enough to handle it. And at the warehouse, I packed the container they were being shipped in.

By the time it was all done, I was exhausted, yet still had to get up at 6am for an 8am flight home. I had to leave that early so I didn't wind up getting home at 1am, because tomorrow I'm driving to Philadelphia.

I'm too old for this shit.

What's good is, during the prelude to handling Seattle, I managed to search Shutterstock for some images...and this is getting close to what I want for the cover of A Place of Safety-Home Not Home.

There's another image of this same model, who looks a lot like an Irish actor I thought would be good for Brendan, where his head isn't cocked, at all. I'll check that out later.

Right now...I need to water my plants and take a shower and sleep.