OK, so Matt Bomer is going to be at BookCon this June. Tentatively making plans as this might be the only time I can see him person. Just dread the idea of crowds and going into the city.

A little update. My sister passed early Monday morning with the viewing Wednesday night and funeral Thursday AM. Both the church and the rescue squad of which she was a member provided much needed support and taking care of details. The number of contacts in my phone has exploded ( Read more... )

Instead of celebrating Good Friday and Easter, the family is on a death watch. My sister is now officially on hospice. She has suffered from kidney disease since being a toddler. For personnel reasons she put off having a transplant and now it has come along to bite her in the proverbial ass. Although from discussions today with the family practice ( Read more... )

The Winterthur Museum in Delaware is hosting an upcoming show entitled "Treasures on Trial: The Art and Science of Detecting Fakes" There are two lecture events. One is about fake wines (sound familar even if it was whiskey), the presenter is an FBI agent and the other is about art forgeries with one of the speakers being the forger himself!(Mark ( Read more... )

Taking a break from stitching and catching up on some old emails and fics.

Been on a major stitching binge and ignoring social media. It's nice to see some WIPs reach an actual finish. Then there's the joy of starting new ones. Oh to be able to read and stitch.

So I take my Nook with me on long weekend away. Good time to catch up on LJ and fanfic without cat. BUT my nook doesn't want to log in to hotel wifi. Gives some BS about not recognizing password..What? No help from front desk ( Read more... )

Apparently I forgot to post this ( Read more... )

Neal can sing ( Read more... )

I'm a winner!!! Very surprisingly my 1 $10 ticket bought late in the game was drawn at the EGA National Seminar 2016 (that I didn't attend). So now there is $2000.00 to spend on attending 2017 EGA National Seminar in Asheville, NC. It covers registration, half of my hotel room, $25/day per diem, and traveling expenses. Whippee ( Read more... )