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[egypturnash]

In the past couple of weeks, I've re-rendered all of chapter 1 of Absinthe twice. Once to print via Createspace, once to print via Lulu again. The one for Createspace was aborted when I discovered they have a 100M upload limit; thirty-eight full-page full-color 300dpi images is nearly twice that. Drat. I was hoping to be able to pass their lower cost on to y'all, but I'm not willing to futz around with lossy compression.

I'll be uploading what I'm hoping is the last PDF to Lulu as soon as it finishes exporting from Indesign. Third time, they say, is the charm.

Yesterday Nick and I went out to look at whales, as part of a group Cassandra organized. The seas were pretty choppy as we set out, due to the tropical storm passing through earlier; I thought I was going to be okay but I ended up being one of the people who got seasick. In one of the many barf bags provided for the purpose by the cruise. Oddly enough what really pushed me over the edge was taking some Dramamine to try and counteract my growing unease; the absolutely foul taste of the pill, combined with the effects of other people nearby being sick, made me lose my stomach contents.

But we did see whales! I didn't see as much of them as people who were in good condition - I was still kinda queasy - but I was able to move around the boat enough to catch some glimpses of them.

This was the first time I'd ever been out on the sea. Interestingly enough, when I closed my eyes I was still kinda visualizing the waves as they moved the boat; I was still getting a bit of a sort of shifting frame of reference with my eyes closed later in the afternoon, after we got back home. I guess that was part of the process of my brain trying to adapt to the constant, semi-predictable motion...

Comments

[ff00ff.livejournal.com]

What species of whale did you see? Did they appear to be crazed due to illegal military sonar devices?

I'm always surprised when I try a new medicine and it has a taste, an awful taste. It's like, I fully understand the necessity to not make it taste good, but many are the drugs delivered with a slick tasteless outer coating.

[eriscontrol.livejournal.com]

Tasteless? Man, the only pills I've ever had that didn't taste foul and bitter tasted faintly sweet like glycerine or something. Which is kind of upsetting.

[silverblue.livejournal.com]

Alas, speaking as someone who DOES get seasick, and who goes diving, you need to take the anti-nausea pills about 1/2 an hour before you're likely to become nauseous.

If it amuses at all, I became landsick for a while after returning from a long boat trip once.

[porsupah.livejournal.com]

Does that include bay/channel ferries? If so, next time you're in the Bay Area, make a point of trying the SF-Sausalito ferry. At some points, you can see all of the bridges at the same time. Comprehending such fantastic diversity and semi-controlled chaos is, to me, a potently wonderful experience. ^_^