In the spirit of not letting too much time pass without an update, have a few semi-random bullet points about things that have been going on with me!

• DragonCon. This was a lot of fun, although I feel that I was not particularly successful with panels or celebrity-related anything this year. Of the four panels that I did go to, I had about a 60% ( Read more... )

Today is the first day that really feels like fall. It rained overnight, so everything is cool and damp. The mountains are covered by clouds and fog to the point where they're almost completely obscured, and the temperature isn't supposed to reach above 67 F ( Read more... )

One of these days I'll get back to a more regular schedule of updating, with appropriate crossposts, but it's probably not this day. In the meantime, have some bullet points about things I've been doing or thinking about lately.

• Guardians of the Galaxy - I loved it. I laughed so hard all the way through, at so many things. Even the complex and ( Read more... )

I spent a good amount of today collecting the final bits and pieces that I needed for this year's Dragon Con cosplay. I'm well aware of my limitations when it comes to that particular kind of artistic endeavor, but this year I was determined enough to try something new all the same ( Read more... )

I just spent the last hour comparing toy weapons to historically and regionally accurate models that would be the most likely to be used by a fictional character. This is the downside of being a bit of a perfectionist ( Read more... )

To borrow a quote from one of my favorite films, "Let me 'splain -- no, there is too much. Let me sum up."

• Since it looks as though I'll not be getting around to a detailed write-up, let me just say that I did go to DragonCon back at the beginning of this month, and enjoyed myself very much. I don't have any pictures to post, but I did engage in a ( Read more... )

Fair warning: this post contains stream-of-consciousness content. Also, I'm trying the rich text function instead of hand-coding, so we'll just see how that goes.

1. I am watching Jurassic Park. I really liked the book, and I do enjoy the film -- but the scene that gets me every single time is the one where Alan Grant and Ellie Sattler first spot ( Read more... )

Today was a bit odd, enough so that by the time the work day was over, I had checked the moon phase three times just to be sure it was no longer full (it's not; waning gibbous, if you're interested, 87% of full) and looked up planetary retrograde schedules to see if anything was going on there ( Read more... )

Why hello, Internet! It's been a while. Here's hoping it won't be quite so long again.

Mostly what I've been up to in the last month or so has been work-related (yes, I know), but there are a few other things as well, to wit:

• Having a much-belated Christmas holiday at the family home. Most people celebrate Christmas in December, but this year ( Read more... )

(Crossposting note: I'm trying Dreamwidth, and will decide based on the experience if I'll use it as primary posting or as a backup. I'll talk about LJ later.)

So I leave town for Dragon*Con, and come back to find that Boulder's on fire. It's still uncontrolled as of this morning, evidently. The map makes me sad, because I know and love that ( Read more... )