I put up a little something on FanFiction.net.  Though you might be interested ( Read more... )

I - uh - won.  In the Stargate Fan awards, I won for Gen, Character, Ronon for Still Waters.

Wow.  How cool is that!

And - wow, how late to the party am I? 

still.  Years and years later.  First season Illya rocks, second season is ok.  Third - well, it's still Illya and fourth season he's getting back on track - golly.  Big D is very tolerant of the squeeing.

And is anyone else absolutely and utterly addicted to I Can Has Cheezeburger/LOL Cats?  The aforementiond Big D rolls his eyes gently every time ( Read more... )

 Firstly, I must say a heartfelt 'thank you' for the nominations for the SGA fan fic awards - most appreciated!  It's prodding me to start notes on another story.  We'll see if it goes anywhere ( Read more... )

Lovely card from Nebbyjen - thanks so much!  I have been worse than useless at keeping up with my friends - apart from the ones who tend to show up and camp on our futon…

Though the year started with supreme suckiness and sort of wallowed around for a bit, it got a bit better in August with holidays up north and then September, with a joyful jaunt ( Read more... )

 but I must say it has some of the best Sheppard and McKay moments I have EVER seen, hoped for or imagined.  It watched like...like...like the best fan fic I have ever read.  And some of it felt really familiar ( Read more... )

For photos, go to  http://www.flickr.com/photos/gaffer42ca/

We were in Florida for a week and had an absolute blast!  I have put excerpts from my trip report below - hope it isn't too long - but I also included the whole description of my Divequest experience (for anyone who is interested in scuba)

We had the Dining Plan at Disney, and stayed at the ( Read more... )

I will be posting interesting Disney-ish things soon, having spent a week there and basically kicked Mouse ass, but Big D and I came back to the news the Canadian dollar hit par with the US dollar!

US and Canadian dollars are the same.  (give or take a couple hundredths of a cent)

Gak.

The last time this happened I was twelve.  That was umpty ump ( Read more... )

Grump.  Yes, grump.  Working on a casting and made a STUPID!  NEWBIE!  mistake that I never should have made and got a mechanical lock on the figure, meant the silicone mould tore because the plastic mother mould wouldn't release and the dang thing's $$$$ worth of frickin' USELESS ( Read more... )

Yay, Doctor Who - but with a moment of "Puhhleeeesse!" thrown in - for the "Last Time Lord".  Big D has been...acquiring...these eps for us, never mind CBC just ran the Shakespeare one (Man, I could practically quote it, it's my pet 'episode to show people when they ask why we watch this weird British sci-fi thing'...) but now we've seen the whole ( Read more... )