What is the name of the Reunion stationmaster?
Dear friends—a name has slipped my mind and didn’t get written into the notebook—
by CJ | Feb 27, 2012 | Journal | 36 comments
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It was Angelo Konstantin, wasn’t it? unless it was his wife, E…Elene Quen. Right?
I believe that was Pell.
Braddock. Louis Baynes Braddock, per Explorer p183.
Concur with ellarien – it was Braddock
ellarien beat me to it — Louis Baynes Braddock it is. (And CJ, thanks for the teaser…;-)
Thanks all! I knew you’d come through!
LordVorp was, of course, thinking of Pell from Downbelow Station.
It’s about time for me to take a break for the night. Going to curl up with a movie and a book, and two feline associates, of course.
Also “Finity’s End”.
Ah, what the wildly successful series author needs. A data miner (minder?) to extract people, places, events & things and correlate them all. However, I suspect that any program would find that the time dilation effects permeating the AU-universe are rather indigestible at the very least (colic, IBS?). lol
My amnesia regarding my own work requires notebooks: I have 2—one a Laurel Burch cat one that OSG gave me years ago, into which I take absolutely random and disorganized notes, one a notebook that has more organized detail of the Alliance Union universe, mostly timeline—5000 years of timeline, the first part involving the movement of sublight ships about that universe, and events that fit that frame…
OTOH, occasionally I am an idiot and fail to write things down. Early on, while I was working in the Alliance Union universe, and went to a convention, the organizers heard my protest that I am absolutely rotten at tv-like popular games (I didn’t watch those things), and insisted they’d give me an easy question if I’d just sit there and look author-like.
So…came my question. The name of Morgaine’s horse.
Total blank. Other universe. Crickets chirping. The brain just couldn’t locate it.
Notebooks, I tell you. Or my kind readers.
I would have thought one of the major advantages to “writing” on a computer is that the text would be searchable. Of course, that requires a good search key word or three. That doesn’t work? 🙁
I don’t like chirping crickets. I have a congenital defect that causes dip in the frequency response of my right ear at just that frequency. It nearly drove me mad when I visited Canada as a teenager. No matter how I turned they always seemed to be chirping off to my left.
Apart from that narrow frequency range my hearing is otherwise excellent :-/
On a study binge of ancient Egyptian history not so long ago, I discovered that handsome steed’s namesake (depending on how you look at history). 😉
Happy Birthday, andruec!
does this mean you are embarking on another Alliance/Union novel?????? 😀
Not in the immediate plans, but in future ones.
Yay – it’s my birthday today and that’s the best news I’ve had. Makes up for the poor game of golf this morning. First game of the year and I’d just about got back on form..by the 17th hole :-/
Happy birthday, andruec!!!
[we’re still under snow here, and the pond is frozen.]
Heh heh…I tried hitting some balls with my brother one time…if I tried starting a round with him…I’d still be at it! 😀
Happy BDay!
goody! *rubs hands*
Sad news of the passing of our cat, Froggie, today. We just buried him next to his brother, Macadoo.
He had finally been recovering well from his months of systemic infection and related kidney failure and eating close to a can of wet food a day, but this Saturday he started declining food and having trouble. We brought him to the vet yesterday and they suspected fluid build-up from the heart problem we found at the same time as the first infection. Problem then was, heart medication directly exacerbates kidney problems. The vet kept him overnight for some tests because they were very worried. They had come to be very fond of Froggie too. Alas, he died there away from home. Now he is with his brother here at home.
Funny how this blog of CJ’s has become the community I wanted to let know. But just as I was about to open up the laptop, I spotted our young kitten, Mao Tse-Tung, aka Mousie, diving into my open backpack to see if he could pull out the yarn from my knitting. He’s turned into quite the fiber artist with my yarn. Now he’s atop the old, large radiator next to my, where he and Froggie have snoozed together many a time. Froggie is in the garden outside the window. It’s easy to say Hello to new creatures in your life: just hard to say Goodbye.
I’m so sorry. I think everyone on this blog understands on a gut level what you’re going through.
With luck, Froggie will spot a big batch of black kittehs hanging out with three silver persians, a funny-looking Siamese with a too short tail and they can all go chasing butterflies together.
Big virtual hugs…
So sorry to hear. I second what Jane said. A hug for Mousie—I had a Mousie once, a little grey Persian. We both know what it is to lose old friends…just so hard. Hugs from us.
Thank you to both of you: yes, there are good cats to play with on the aetherial level, too many good cats have gone there this past year for those of us here on the more earth-bound plain.
We’ll almost certainly be getting a kitten soon to bring us back into the cycle of life. Our bunny rabbits have already requested that Mousie have a playmate of his own species to romp with. Today, lacking Froggie (aka Mr. Grumpy Pants at times) to play with, he enthusiastically bowled over Petros Lagwos rather than the normal, friendly taps he give the bunnies.
I have disciplined myself to keep a “who’s who” and a “what’s when (timeline)” for everything I write, especially my “worlds” I keep characters in a Microsoft Word document set up with hanging indent so that I can keep the entries alphabetized. I usually open both the story and the who’s who at the same time, so I can flip from one to the other and keep my names straight. I know Word is declassé, but I had to have it for work, so I have it and I know how to use it. Right now I can’t afford any of the fancy writer’s programs. Even if I could, it would take time to learn to use them.
Froggie is indeed in good company. If we didn’t love them so much, it wouldn’t hurt so much to lose them. E-hugs, Raesean. I’ve lost two myself.
Raesean, I just saw this, and I’m so sorry. I know it’s hard missing an old furry friend. The new ones are wonderful, but still you miss the old ones. Froggie will be in good company with several of my old friends, getting into kitty mischief and enjoying the sun and naps…and teaming up on the hewmons. 😉
I am bad with actual names, often enough, and bad with character names for my own writing or fiction I’ve edited. I am likely going to start an omnibus character name list, just because I’m starting to fret that I’ll wind up reusing names, either what’s out there (amateur fiction) or in my draft folders. Author’s and editor’s notes, guidebooks on the story-universe and characters, would have to be necessary, especially when picking up a storyline or universe when it’s been a while. Real life can be a distraction!
ooooooo. Number 13 just arrived in the post at home from Amazon! And I’m stuck two hundred miles away until the weekend! /cry
Raesean, I am so sorry to hear about Froggy….and I know what you mean about wanting to tell everyone here. Thanks to Cj and Jane there is a community here. There is also a pride of crazy Siamese waiting to play.
Years ago we decided to keep a blue point Siamese kitten. At about the same time a large young black and white stray showed up. The two took to each other and, yes, became Farfd and The Gray Mouser!
oh Raesan, I am sorry … and I am nearly in the same situation – off to Paris to get orders tomorrow – and the 16 yrold dog has a stroke, in the road … a small stroke, the vet says, but as his back legs are a bit weak anyway, he can’t stand, and the care I had laid on for my two dogs is not enough, so I left him at the vets. he will have good care and meds to pep up his circulation for 48 hours and I hope that will be enough, and there’s no more problem … with a 16 yrold, every day is a bonus, so … and if he gets worse …. but when I am away … no, I don’t want that!
HEre’s hoping, purplejulian. That’s so difficult a situation.
Raesan — so sorry. It is indeed hard to say goodbye.
And purplejulian, fingers crossed for your canine friend.
thank you! the news is quite hopeful, after shots for seasickness, steroids and other things he was feeling much better and able to walk around and go out for a pee, and he’s eating … will come back from the vet’s on friday. and my friends will look after them both until I get back o wednesday night …
Oh, PurpleJ, I hope your pupdog trots out happily to greet you when you get home. It’s an anxious time for you.
Thanks everyone for thinking of Froggie so lovingly and understandingly.