Hard to believe that it's 2021 and this account is still active after 7 years. No one remembers that it exists, so it feels like a safe place to vent. Right now it's late evening and I have to work early tomorrow, so this is just a quick note.

Only a week until we leave for London. I'm all done spending money for now. I bought new luggage and a new zoom lens for the camera today. We have the London transit passes, the trip to Stonehenge and Bath booked and paid for, theatre tickets and the Worldcon memberships. Oh yeah, plane tickets. The savings account is severely depleted, but ( Read more... )

So, this appears to be National Pin the Tail on the Moron Day and they are lining up in droves to volunteer.

Busy, scattered weekend so far. We ended up replacing the Kia, which was totaled 2 weeks ago, with a second Mazda3, this one in black. As it happens, I'll be making the payments, but Fred will be driving it. I'll be driving the red one that we bought first and he'll be making the higher payments on that one. I paid for the Kia and the insurance ( Read more... )

aurorasong, your current position in the Top Journals is: 11,585. Hmm. Yesterday it was somewhere north of a million. Did 90% of LJ just evaporate? Seriously, I wonder what number is attached to other people's journals.

After years of trying out I was finally chosen for a fight on the OKRF chess board! Gossamer the fairy godmother will be defending her goddaughter Princess Elizabeth from the depredations of Duke Seamus of Scotland. Alas, he defeats me by using his third wish to wish me off of the board. Jeremy and I work together really well and we have our ( Read more... )

I received my passport today! I have a bit over $3000 in my savings account and I will soon be able to request the vacation days I'll need. Now if I can just pin my daughter down and make some housing an flight reservations I'll be in good shape.

I'm frankly expecting this to be a fairly crappy week-end. Fred is being hard headed about the character he is auditioning for. He keeps fussing about real history when OKRF doesn't give a flying fuck about real history. Fred's work schedule isn't going to let him go to Sunday chess board practices so he is probably going to get stuck with a non ( Read more... )

Having nudged a bunch of my friends to come back to LJ I now feel obligated to post more regularly. Probably not once a day but more than once a week ( Read more... )

I'm working on an idea for a kid's book to be called Brit Brat and the Mud Mice. It's about a little girl growing up in the Darwin colony on another planet. I think she's about 8 and much of the book will be journal entries into her Captain's log. The tech level will be a mix of SF and basic agaraian somewhat like Firefly, but not set in that