I don’t collect dolls and 250$ apiece is way out of my price range even if I did, but I gotta admit the 18″ limited edition collectible Spike is pretty damned sweet. Plus, interchangeable heads so you can display him in either human or vamp face! I’m not quite as impressed with the […]
Archive for July, 2006
Family stuff
Posted in General on Jul 27th, 2006
While I was away at Writercon, it seems my Uncle Charles had a stroke, and his prognosis is dim. I haven’t seen the man since I was six, and aside from the occasional exchange of Christmas cards, we’ve never really spoken to each other. However, he appointed me executor of his will […]
Plot panel tip sheet
Posted in General on Jul 25th, 2006
I What is a plot?
A. A plot is a sequence of related events, each event caused by the one before. It’s the “why” for the things that happen in the story. “The boy and the girl went to the movies. Another girl killed the boy.” is not a plot. “The […]
Once more with plumbing!
Posted in General on Jul 25th, 2006
My plane was one of the last to leave on Monday, so I spent most of the day hanging out with the other Dregs of Writercon(tm) in the hotel lobby. The last four of us took MARTA back to the airport in the afternoon (thdeadlyhook, I hope you caught your plane!) and I had dinner […]
I have:
Packed everything I need and several things I don’t
Repacked everything
Made copies for panel hand-outs
Printed my fic library stories and put them in dorky little report covers for easy reading (There is something quite satisfying about seeing one’s stories in well-appointed hard copy. “Why zines?” indeed!)
Bought strapless bra to go with dress that I […]
It cooled down to a hundred and six today! Woohoo! (Doesn’t 106 sound more impressive than 41?)
Post the Third
Posted in General on Jul 17th, 2006
And putting on my reader hat for a minute: OK, are you ever in the mood for something, and you can just taste it? Like a peanut butter and bacon sandwich. And you go into a restaurant and you order it and it comes to the table and the bread’s toasted just right […]
Post the Second
Posted in General on Jul 17th, 2006
Looks like the annual “concrit is evol!/concrit is the savior of fandom!” argument is gearing up over in HP fandom. Which means we’re probably due another round of it fairly soon. The Nice Girls vs Mean Girls panel at Writercon should be interesting, save that all of the panelists refuse to categorize themselves […]
Post the first
Posted in General on Jul 17th, 2006
Wildrider made the yummiest pulled pork sammiches EVER Saturday night, and last Thursday I used up the last of our spinich-and-feta sausages to make Vaguely Mediterranean Sandwiches - sausage, red onion, tomato, feta, hummus, and bell pepper on whole wheat pita bread. I almost got the regular pita bread, but it had high fructose […]
Do you know the way to Metebelis III?
Posted in General on Jul 11th, 2006
This weekend was a little hectic. We managed to get to POTC II on Saturday afternoon, and I finished my pinch-hitting illustrations for Tai-Pan Saturday evening, downloaded the season closer of Doctor Who, over night so we could watch it Sunday morning, and re-revised Act II and half ot Act III of episode 5 […]