The Crying of Lot #937
Okay, vague sci-fi novel title reference is vague. I've had a long and rather tiring but good day, so this may not be the most coherent entry.
Went to an antiques auction with my dad this afternoon; it was a box lot auction, so the items were pretty much that: boxes of various treasures all tossed together (ie. boxes of dishes or tools or Christmas stuff or records or knicknacks or books or goodness knows what). Weirdest box of stuff: a bunch of harnessing for a horse, which, after my dad and I joked about it, Vinnie the auctioneer called "The perfect Valentine's Day gift!" (which made me think of D'Angelines of certain persuasions, or a certain energy vampire who rents space in the back of my head...) My dad managed to get the winning bid in on a table saw he'd wanted, while I scored a box of books, mostly ghost stories or random art books (To quote Vinnie as he was pitching the box, "'Haunted Places', 'Ghosts', 'Real Hauntings', 'Surrealists' -- Sounds like my house!"). Of course I wanted the box for the ghost books. We're planning to send the art books back with a few more random books tossed into the box fill it up.
Will have fic and RP tags posted tomorrow. Me brain is tired...
Went to an antiques auction with my dad this afternoon; it was a box lot auction, so the items were pretty much that: boxes of various treasures all tossed together (ie. boxes of dishes or tools or Christmas stuff or records or knicknacks or books or goodness knows what). Weirdest box of stuff: a bunch of harnessing for a horse, which, after my dad and I joked about it, Vinnie the auctioneer called "The perfect Valentine's Day gift!" (which made me think of D'Angelines of certain persuasions, or a certain energy vampire who rents space in the back of my head...) My dad managed to get the winning bid in on a table saw he'd wanted, while I scored a box of books, mostly ghost stories or random art books (To quote Vinnie as he was pitching the box, "'Haunted Places', 'Ghosts', 'Real Hauntings', 'Surrealists' -- Sounds like my house!"). Of course I wanted the box for the ghost books. We're planning to send the art books back with a few more random books tossed into the box fill it up.
Will have fic and RP tags posted tomorrow. Me brain is tired...