e-APA #42 October 2007 OE: Peter Sullivan, [email protected] Deadline for next distribution: Saturday, 1st November, 2007. Administrivia In this distribution: ● Official Organ #42 (Peter Sullivan) - 2 pages ● Feline Madness #42 (R-Laurraine Tutihasi) - 4 pages ● Boopledoggin’ #19 (Chuck Connor) - 4 pages ● September 2007 (William McCabe) – 4 pages ● At Ungodly Hours #2 (Kat Templeton) – 5 pages ● Plata #25 (Steven Silver) – 10 pages ● Pleasantly Random #25 (Peter Sullivan) - 7 pages inc. TAFF ballot ● I Never Got The Hang of Thursdays #40 (Garth Spencer) – 5 pages ● e-APA Guidelines (the OE) – 2 pages Welcome to those who aren't members of e-APA and who have downloaded this “open” distribution from efanzines.com. We hope that what you see and read here will interest you in joining the APA and being with us each month. Becoming a member couldn't be easier – just e-mail the OE (address above) and say you're interested, then submit a PDF-format zine before the first of the month. A copy of the e-APA Guidelines is attached to this distribution. Cover pic: The galaxy Messier 82, shown in a composite of images from the Chandra X-Ray telescope, Hubble Space Telescope and Spitzer infrared telescope, with colours adjusted to fit everything into the visual spectrum. From Wikimedia Commons at http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Image:M82_Chandra_HST_Spitzer.jpg FELINE MADNESS #42 Feline Madness #42 is a zine created for e-APA #42, October 2007, by R-Laurraine Tutihasi of Rolling Hills Estates, CA, who can be reached at [email protected]. I have a web site at http://www.weasner.com/ . © 2007 by R-Laurraine Tutihasi. This zine is formatted for viewing on screen. Cover illo is of our two cats, Fluffy, the black one, and Mercury. Mike’s monthly retirement payments finally started caused. The doctor cursorily examined his foot and coming on the first business day of September. They pronounced that he had pulled a muscle in his thigh. She must have forgotten the August payment, because they also told him he was allergic to cashews, his favourite sent two payments. I am applying for my retirement food, and sent him home without even a referral. I was benefits from Hughes Aircraft, where I worked for seven rather upset and made him make an appointment with years. The company no longer exists, pieces of it having the allergist I’d seen recently. The allergist seemed been bought mostly by Boeing or Raytheon. Raytheon is sceptical of the other doctor’s diagnosis and took a blood administering my retirement benefits. It turns out the sample for the purposes of running some tests. The tests company actually doing the administration is the same as recently came back negative. All his reactions to both the one doing it for Mike’s company. nuts and insect stings were in the normal range. The highest readings were the reactions to wasps and bee Towards the end of August, Mike injured his left foot stings. I will make sure that he has easy access to an somehow. We don’t know how it happened. Since he antihistamine at all times. The other problem has refused to go to his doctor for the first couple of weeks, evolved to where there is a small nodule in the sole of we had no idea what was wrong. He did at least talk to his foot near his toes. He has an appointment with a my sister on the phone, and she thought he might have a podiatrist early in October. stress fracture. For a while it seemed to be improving; but he finally relented and saw a doctor, not our regular Our house still has not sold, but at least we are still one. She, to me, seemed incompetent and irresponsible. getting the occasional visit by realtors bringing clients. By this time Mike had developed a new problem. One The situation does not appear to be completely hopeless. evening he had symptoms that looked very like an allergic reaction to something. His upper lip and one At the beginning of September, I had lunch with a friend other unmentionable area puffed up and he was covered I made when I was working at Hughes. She gave us a in something that looked like hives on his forearms.; gift of movie passes, and we used them in mid- when the symptoms became somewhat alarming to look September to see the Neil Gaiman movie Stardust. I had at, I gave him an antihistamine to take, which helped and seen no advertising for this film, but there was some seemed to confirm my suspicion that it was allergy- discussion on a couple of the lists I belong to. That Feline Madness #42 (Tutihasi), page 2 October 2007 prompted me to view the trailer on the web. I also recalled that I had the book, though it’s packed up. It Having finished all the busywork readying the house for was a very enjoyable fairly tale with some modern the market and the summer TV season being rather slow, overtones. One person on a list compared it to Princess I actually had more time to read magazines and books. Bride, and I think that’s a very appropriate comparison. However the fall TV season is starting up, so that’ll busy If you liked that movie, you’ll probably like this one. up my schedule considerably. Our hot summer weather continued well into September. We are still trying to get rid of three pieces of furniture. It wasn’t until late in the month, that the weather became Initially our old cleaning woman expressed an interest more seasonal. The first rain of this season came then, but changed her mind. rather early. We usually don’t see rain until November. Mailing Comments on e-APA #41 Katrina A. “Kat” Templeton (At Ungodly Chuck Connor (Boopledoggin’ #18): You said Hours #1): Welcome to the APA. some of the Connor family went to Australia of their My husband and I spent two days in Redding last own accord and that this was a novelty. Which part year while we visited Lassen Volcanic National Park. was the novelty, the going to Australia or of their What did your senior year English teacher think own accord? was the only sf book eligible to be considered If we can manage to sell our current house soon, literature? the rental costs should fit comfortably into our The New Yorker recently ran an article about budget. Philip K. Dick. We have many types of home mortgages here, I have some overlaps with you on favourite too. We started out in this house with a variable authors. rate loan that started out at a very low rate but We hope to attend next year’s Worldcon too, so would have risen after the third year or so. maybe we’ll meet. However we refinanced before that happened into a fixed rate loan. You can also get mortgages varying Feline Madness #42 (Tutihasi), page 3 October 2007 from ten to fifty years. Ours is the standard thirty- close second. I found those two to be the least year loan. depressing of the nominees. A credit union is a non-profit bank owned by the I guess I haven’t been paying attention. What members. When a credit union is large enough, the does the Real ID Act say? members usually get better deals than are available I’ve also made an attempt to read a book by C. J. at a commercial bank. Cherryh; I don’t remember which book that was. After having a very enjoyable conversation with her William McCabe (Another Month): I’ve only brother, because something (I no longer remember) had two experiences with computer viruses. One made it impossible for her to be at the event where was on the job. The other was that Microsoft virus the conversation took place, I feel motivated to try that went around about ten or so years ago. I again one of these days. C. J. Cherryh herself has inadvertently brought it home from work. It didn’t been cordial when I’ve talked to her, but I’ve never really cause any serious problems, and it was had an extended conversation with her. When I like purged fairly easily. people, I really want to like their work too. If our cleaning woman picks up our unwanted Peter Sullivan (Pleasantly Random 24): It’s furniture as she promised, we should be able to put standard practice here for the employment agency the car back into the garage. It’s a three-car to charge a fee to the employer. garage, and there should be plenty of space for one car in it even with other stuff there. Steven H Silver (Plata 24): I voted for V for Vendetta in first place, but Pan’s Labyrinth was a **************************************************************************************** It’s quite stressful waiting to sell a house. We cannot when I have the time. See you all next month. move until we do. Laurraine I’m finishing this up on the early side but better to do so Feline Madness #42 (Tutihasi), page 4 October 2007 BOOPLEDOGGIN' #19 Autumn is, once more, upon us to be known that Boopledoggin’ is © 2007 by And now, back to the regular deprogramming... Skate Press/Chuck “should scrambled eggs have Shiny as a brand new dime, feathers in it?” Connor. No rights are retained Sadly due to some sinus slime mould, I've not been But the Prat in Black before, during or after publication – all rights are able to complete all the mailcomms this month, so Is here to hack returned to the respective authors/ artists (unless it's going to just have to be a bit of a rush job..