If you haven’t got something nice or intelligent to say…
Honestly, I so enjoy you guys’ comments and doings. I take breaks from work to relax.
Have I mentioned mahjong is fun?
Our weather, meanwhile, is warming disgustingly. We got six inches of snow and we’re about to lose it all as it turns to rain. Sigh.
We likely will go out this evening with our skating coach Joan if we can get the car out of the drive—the frantic snowplows yesterday and through the night have probably created a heckuva berm out there, which we haven’t yet investigated, and which is probably melting into an ice ridge even a pickaxe can’t breach. We may have to ask Joan to come after us…
The book has taken a turn I didn’t expect. Sometimes the people just go off in their own direction and the writer just takes notes.
That’s nice; we on the East coast are about to get those six inches you lost. Next time please hold onto your snow better, KTHX? 🙂
(From what I’ve read, SF/F fandom seems to have erupted in controversy fairly often even before the Internet. Is it really worse now, or just harder for professionals to avoid getting sucked in?)
On a completely different note, let’s see…. Kittens, ‹searches Google›, nothing new…. Puppies, ‹more Google›, meh…. Something cute, something to take the mind off homo sapiens belying his last name… ‹search search search›… here we go:
Via Sarah Hoyt’s Facebook group: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2556683/March-Penguins-Obese-birds-forced-daily-30-minute-power-walk-Japanese-zoo-dwarf-children-come-watch.html
(http://mindbleach.org/ works too.)
There were a couple of guys there on FB getting all bent out of shape and totally highjacking what was a civilised thread. I really loathe when that happens.
There are generally civilised discussions in the genealogy groups. Not always, but the highjacking often happens when someone finds something they’ve been looking for for years, or when an unknown cousin appears out of the woodwork. They do tend to get bent out of shape discussing the relative merits of different software packages though.
Yep, there’s wall-to-wall kerfluffle over there. The month of hearts, roses, and love, and it’s WWIII on FB. I’m just giving it up for a while. We’re approaching the end of February, which is our fiscal year end, Jane’s doing taxes, and we’re just keeping our nose to the grindstone. In the evenings, we play Guild Wars with Lynn long distance—we’re in WA, she’s in FL; and we enjoy taking out of frustrations on animated cave trolls instead of the other kind.
Doing taxes as well … so much for the diet while doing taxes. I need to munch while tearing my hair out.
Speaking of ker Fuffle, I was reminded recently of the split of the trilogy between Saga and Endgame. I can’t see expanding Pride but what about a Pride/trilogy interlude from the A/U side? It’s two years, as I recall. Could that make three right-sized volumes? That might straighten out Chanur printing, give it a shot in the arm, and bring some of the A/U people along. From prices, it seems like DAW underprinted Endgame based on Saga, which had problems before Endgame was released.
As to WWIII, nuke ’em till they glow and kiss them in the dark?
Turns out Jane, bless her, slipped out and cleared the drive. So definitely we are going.
We haven’t skated since Jane got so sick, but we maintain ties especially with our coach, who’s now retired—and the competition season surely brings back memories. She used to skate big-time competitively, retired to coaching, and coached people who competed at the international level likewise, a network which, when we’ve had the shows through here, has often linked up with her…it’s an amazingly small community, where people know people. Jane and I have shared ice with Olympians, where I tell you, you *feel* it when one of these guys comes up behind you. You just trust them to miss you. 🙂 Talk about gods-of-ice—such good memories. And nice people. Really nice.
So it’s a good season to go out to dinner with Joan and hit one of the restaurants we used to hit with the skating crowd. We’re going out to dinner. I even have makeup on. I need a break!
*emerges from basement* I found a lot of stuff for a yard sale!
Uh… Internet kaffuffle? This is one of the reasons I avoid FB.
*slinks back into the dungeon*
Smacking virtual baddies with a bat’leth or your weapon of choice is a great stress reliever! Good on Jane for clearing the drive. Have fun at dinner!
If I could afford it, a very nice katana would be in my hands…..well, perhaps on the rack…..but I can’t afford one….at least, not a really well made katana…..
I don’t know what the kerfluffle is about, I haven’t seen it, but then, if it doesn’t involve me, it’s probably just as well that I don’t.
Avoidance of kerfuffles is one of the reasons I like WWAS so much. It’s civilized rather than being a group of vivisectionists.
Are you enjoying the skating events from the Olympics?
Very much so. When you’ve done many of these moves, you can feel the muscle wake up and say, yeah! I know how that is! only much, much, much more so!
Some people would argue with a fencepost…and then wonder how they got those painful splinters. (And it would serve ’em right.)
There are times when a respite away from the nonsense are called for. Times in which one may wish for a Nerf baseball bat or punching bag or some such. At such times, joining a crew of misfit heroes to slay some virtual baddies and collect loot, sing a few songs and have a drink and a bite to eat in celebration about the hearth or the campfire, might be quite in order. — Or some might prefer finding a likely lad or lass and whiling away the evening in such manner as seems most comforting and enjoyable. — Or others migh like a good game or a rousing pub crawl or bar fight. — I s’pose it depends on who’s doing what with whom and for how long and why. — Or something along those lines.
Here and the other few places I visit regularly online are generally quite free of kerfluffle and brouhaha and other such, ah, distasteful wastes of energy and wit and emotion.
I visiit here because I never know what interesting thing might come up, but it’s always discussed in a friendly, equal way, and it is always going to be something worth the visit. The people here are nice folks. (The lady who runs this place is pretty spiffy also.)
Have good fun skating and/or with Guild Wars!
There are times, places and situations when the wisest course is simply to “fold into tenths like an Arab and silently steal away” to quote Walt Kelly’s misquotation. It used to be that my stress-relief retreat was to listen to music and work jigsaw puzzles, the 1000 piece kind, until (a) I got kittehs (do I need to go into more detail here?) and (b) you can’t seem to find them anymore. Now I knit or crochet and listen to music, or the latest installment of Welcome to Night Vale, or some other podcast of choice, or internet radio, or to something vapid but bearable on TV that doesn’t require all that much attention, all of which can be done from a comfortable chair with beverage of choice to hand.
As to that unexpected turn of events, you’ve obviously relapsed into that all too easy to fall into delusion that you, as author, are in charge of running the show. (8>)
Snow? We got 8″ this weekend. It started melting yesterday, was pretty moth-eaten today (lawn was mostly showing at dusk) and this evening I hear the Pineapple Express has pulled into town.
FB? Nope. Never have. Never will.
We ate way too much—and then heaven help us, the kitchen mistakenly sent out a birthday dessert. Even split 3 ways—we shouldn’t have done that. The sugar hit made me sick for an hour, and Guild Wars was having a Denial of Service attack from some dweeb who needs a life, so we couldn’t get on for our usual round with Lynn—who was exhausted, anyway, and needed the sleep. We finally got our ‘daily’ score, the daily challenges, but I am officially tired and going to bed—it was a lot of fun, though, and I think Joan needed the night out as much as we did.
This will start your day well. A dog wants to play with a deadpan, iron-hearted stiff:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q8DiOthAKek
It’s wonderful to see that after so many years as a professional author and so many years of working with these particular characters, you can still have these moments where they surprise you.