I betook myself for a walk just after dinner this evening. I walked across the bridge into Fremont and around the block to add a little distance before coming home. The total walk -- there and back home again -- is about 1.75 miles or so. As I passed Blue C Sushi, I once again saw the sign that's been outside the restaurant door for the last week ( Read more... )

It occurred to me about an hour ago that my vow not to leave the house had one drawback: It meant that I couldn't retrieve and deposit my unemployment check. So I left the house. I retrieved the mail, check included, and went to the car ( Read more... )

So, I mentioned yesterday morning that I had an appointment with a new agency. I went. At 10:15 AM. The snow poured out of the sky. The alley and two streets I had to drive before getting to the main road were unplowed and nearly undisturbed. The first main arterial wasn't bad, mostly sandy-slushy and bumpy. The entrance to the freeway was clear. ( Read more... )

This is what happens when I have too much time on my hands.

I was cruising PennyCollector.com this afternoon and discovered that their location list includes penny machines in Cardiff. Now, as some of you may recall, I was in Cardiff last September specifically to visit locations related to Doctor Who and Torchwood. Weirdly, I did not bother to ( Read more... )

I shouldn't do this to myself, but I'm going to anyway. Remember, how jaylake used to keep his storywords journal, taking a word each day and writing a quick little piece around it? Back in March I started to do this with a separate LJ devoted to the purpose. Then I stopped, started and stopped again. A couple of days ago I started again. I'm going public with it ( Read more... )

So there I am at RadCon. It's dinner. It's Saturday night. There at the table are myself, Kristine Kathryn Rusch, bravado111, Dan Duval, bjcooper and mikigarrison. (I may be forgetting someone.) Kris and bravado111 are on my case about submitting my work: "You don't do it enough," they say. It became an embarrassing and yet oddly loving sort of scarlettina gang bang on the subject of submissions ( Read more... )

Clearly I picked a good day to be crabby. I gave everyone else permission to be crabby, too. I love you all, my crabby friends. You complain with the best of 'em. It really cheered me up.

For your excellence at crabbiness, I give you Complaints Choirs of the World. (gnomi, there's even a Jerusalem complaints choir!) I spent half the morning considering ( Read more... )

Someone just put me out of my misery now and have done with it. Why? Why remake this film? It's perfect. Rennie is wonderful (oh, and gorgeous). Gort is cool in all his retro-ocity. Stop them! Stop them before it's too late!

::ahem::

In the middle of March, I submitted calendar listings for the SLGC concert to approximately 25 Web sites. I was so proud of myself. I was on top of it. Today, I'm not seeing our event on at least a third of these Web sites. The prospect of resubmitting them makes me want to bash my own head in rather than having to do it all over again. I'll lose ( Read more... )

As long as I'm dreaming about next year's travel (nope, no Japanese WorldCon pour moi), I thought I would record here the kinds of things I want to do ( Read more... )