Stuff. Sorry, it really isn't any more specific than that. Though it is mostly about lemons.
Yea! Till We Have Faces has shipped! Woo hoo!
I have decided that ‘when I grow up’ I want to be C.S. Lewis. He liked to take a daily walk whenever possible and when he went on holiday he went on long cross-country walks with his friends. This is what I want to do all the time. So I should really get to work on that original stuff I keep threatening to write. That would really speed things up toward being Lewis for me.
Thank you to everyone who weighed in with tea advice. I am currently brewing the tea loose in the pot and straining through my over-sized filter (which does not fit into the pot, thus creating my dilemma *glares at it just a bit*). This is working tolerably well and I plan to purchase a cute little strainer which is more appropriate for the task. I am, quite characteristically, tending to overfill the little pot and subsequently spilling tea on my desk on a regular basis.
So, lemons. For the first time, I was able to put some lemons into play before the movie and then visually confirm all four of them were no longer where I had planted them when we left the theatre. That was on Wednesday night. Nothing on the lemon’s journal. ??? Why take a lemon if you’re not going to look up all the writing on it? To be fair, they could be looking it up and then just making fun of me - which is cool as long as I don’t have to sit through it - and honestly, I’d almost be OK with them making fun of me through the lemon’s journal, you know, depending, and considering I have the power to delete their comments. I also have to consider the possibility that the Music Box staff take a dim view of the lemons and are confiscating (read as tossing) them. It’s definitely time to take the lemons out ‘into the great wide open’ in the immortal words of Tom Petty (and others? He cannot have been the first)…
My confirmed lemon player and I have been talking back and forth a bit because we just missed each other on fandom night at the Music Box. She’s on tumblr and I’m on LJ so because 1: I wanted to seem friendly and 2: it seemed to make sense to secure the user name, I signed up and ‘followed’ her. I then ‘reblogged’ an entry because Adagio Tea is on tumblr and apparently doing a giveaway, so if any of you are interested in that, do go check it out. I am completely bewildered by this site. It flashes at me, and I absolutely could not figure out how to ‘reblog’ directly from the Adagio entry, nor could I figure out if that was necessary or if I could ‘reblog’ from someone else’s ‘reblog’ and still qualify for entry. My lemon player did have some cool gifs etc. of Benedict (as she so delightfully promised in an attempt to lure me over to the dark side). Fandom gifs are troublesome for me. They’re cool, but they’re generally so very short and I have to stare at them for a while to figure out where the beginning is, and, well, they make me feel a bit anxious sometimes.
So, apparently this entry is meant to let you all know that I am worryingly backward when it comes to the internet.
Wait, I was going somewhere when I brought up my lemon player - oh, yes. I had mentioned to her that I’d had this vision of myself standing outside exiting screenings of Star Trek with a couple of bags of lemons - real lemons, not artificial, I’m not investing in long-term lemons en masse for this - and being all, ‘Isn’t Benedict awesome? Here, have a lemon.’ This somehow led us to wanting to have a lemon treasure hunt - I know, this is so totally me - someone says, ‘lemon’ and I’m suddenly taking pictures and labeling things and making spread sheets and badgering people into taking lemons along on their holiday…but anyway, I’ve been trying to think about how that might work. This stems from my being sad that I missed the Sherlock picnic in London this month - they had a treasure hunt in London! I am so very, very jealous - but I definitely need a few more Chicago-based people if I’m going to pull anything off. I do want to have a picnic in a cemetery, that’s a lemon-based visual which has been dancing around my head for a while now.
I’ve looked up treasure hunt lists in the past and they are all very annoyingly silly and unhelpful. I guess this makes sense as the people most likely to be doing them are the same. Hm. If I were doing something even semi-official I might be persuaded to go into actual shops and ask for assistance. That way I could give out clues for where to go to collect lemons. Anyway…that’s something which is swirling round in my head. If anyone Chicago-based is reading this, do give in and join in the lemon lunacy.
And here goes the crazy magical typing again - it should be a lemon location exchange. Clues to where I’ve planted lemons are given to the players, they pick up the lemons which come with instructions as to where to move them. Players take a pic to prove they’ve moved the lemon to its new designated spot - or thought of an even better location - bonus points! It could even be done mostly online, it’s really not much different from the basic game, just a little organized burst of lemon fun which could be done in small groups. You know, small groups of all the people flocking to play Hunt the Lemon with me… :-) Perhaps I should write a couple of short Cabin Pressure fics to promote my efforts.
I should be writing something productive instead of blathering like this. The plan of leaving Sherlock’s parents for the moment didn’t pan out as my brain is now stuck on fine-tuning it. I wanted to send it off to djarum99 yesterday for a bit of a consult but it ended up not quite being done enough for that, and now I’m suddenly late! I don’t like telling someone I’ll do something and then not following through. It makes me feel messy. Ugh. I need to start picking up the house this weekend. And, I really need to stop typing this and putting off typing other things…
I have decided that ‘when I grow up’ I want to be C.S. Lewis. He liked to take a daily walk whenever possible and when he went on holiday he went on long cross-country walks with his friends. This is what I want to do all the time. So I should really get to work on that original stuff I keep threatening to write. That would really speed things up toward being Lewis for me.
Thank you to everyone who weighed in with tea advice. I am currently brewing the tea loose in the pot and straining through my over-sized filter (which does not fit into the pot, thus creating my dilemma *glares at it just a bit*). This is working tolerably well and I plan to purchase a cute little strainer which is more appropriate for the task. I am, quite characteristically, tending to overfill the little pot and subsequently spilling tea on my desk on a regular basis.
So, lemons. For the first time, I was able to put some lemons into play before the movie and then visually confirm all four of them were no longer where I had planted them when we left the theatre. That was on Wednesday night. Nothing on the lemon’s journal. ??? Why take a lemon if you’re not going to look up all the writing on it? To be fair, they could be looking it up and then just making fun of me - which is cool as long as I don’t have to sit through it - and honestly, I’d almost be OK with them making fun of me through the lemon’s journal, you know, depending, and considering I have the power to delete their comments. I also have to consider the possibility that the Music Box staff take a dim view of the lemons and are confiscating (read as tossing) them. It’s definitely time to take the lemons out ‘into the great wide open’ in the immortal words of Tom Petty (and others? He cannot have been the first)…
My confirmed lemon player and I have been talking back and forth a bit because we just missed each other on fandom night at the Music Box. She’s on tumblr and I’m on LJ so because 1: I wanted to seem friendly and 2: it seemed to make sense to secure the user name, I signed up and ‘followed’ her. I then ‘reblogged’ an entry because Adagio Tea is on tumblr and apparently doing a giveaway, so if any of you are interested in that, do go check it out. I am completely bewildered by this site. It flashes at me, and I absolutely could not figure out how to ‘reblog’ directly from the Adagio entry, nor could I figure out if that was necessary or if I could ‘reblog’ from someone else’s ‘reblog’ and still qualify for entry. My lemon player did have some cool gifs etc. of Benedict (as she so delightfully promised in an attempt to lure me over to the dark side). Fandom gifs are troublesome for me. They’re cool, but they’re generally so very short and I have to stare at them for a while to figure out where the beginning is, and, well, they make me feel a bit anxious sometimes.
So, apparently this entry is meant to let you all know that I am worryingly backward when it comes to the internet.
Wait, I was going somewhere when I brought up my lemon player - oh, yes. I had mentioned to her that I’d had this vision of myself standing outside exiting screenings of Star Trek with a couple of bags of lemons - real lemons, not artificial, I’m not investing in long-term lemons en masse for this - and being all, ‘Isn’t Benedict awesome? Here, have a lemon.’ This somehow led us to wanting to have a lemon treasure hunt - I know, this is so totally me - someone says, ‘lemon’ and I’m suddenly taking pictures and labeling things and making spread sheets and badgering people into taking lemons along on their holiday…but anyway, I’ve been trying to think about how that might work. This stems from my being sad that I missed the Sherlock picnic in London this month - they had a treasure hunt in London! I am so very, very jealous - but I definitely need a few more Chicago-based people if I’m going to pull anything off. I do want to have a picnic in a cemetery, that’s a lemon-based visual which has been dancing around my head for a while now.
I’ve looked up treasure hunt lists in the past and they are all very annoyingly silly and unhelpful. I guess this makes sense as the people most likely to be doing them are the same. Hm. If I were doing something even semi-official I might be persuaded to go into actual shops and ask for assistance. That way I could give out clues for where to go to collect lemons. Anyway…that’s something which is swirling round in my head. If anyone Chicago-based is reading this, do give in and join in the lemon lunacy.
And here goes the crazy magical typing again - it should be a lemon location exchange. Clues to where I’ve planted lemons are given to the players, they pick up the lemons which come with instructions as to where to move them. Players take a pic to prove they’ve moved the lemon to its new designated spot - or thought of an even better location - bonus points! It could even be done mostly online, it’s really not much different from the basic game, just a little organized burst of lemon fun which could be done in small groups. You know, small groups of all the people flocking to play Hunt the Lemon with me… :-) Perhaps I should write a couple of short Cabin Pressure fics to promote my efforts.
I should be writing something productive instead of blathering like this. The plan of leaving Sherlock’s parents for the moment didn’t pan out as my brain is now stuck on fine-tuning it. I wanted to send it off to djarum99 yesterday for a bit of a consult but it ended up not quite being done enough for that, and now I’m suddenly late! I don’t like telling someone I’ll do something and then not following through. It makes me feel messy. Ugh. I need to start picking up the house this weekend. And, I really need to stop typing this and putting off typing other things…