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Where's the Romance Novel for This Bit of History?
I don't especially care about modern royalty, but I was interested to read an article about Queen Elizabeth's broaches, mainly because I have a few nice broaches (some from my grandmother), although I don't find/take much occasion to wear them. Following links, I came across a story about the Cambridge emeralds that were won in a lottery, fashioned ( Read more... ) -
Someone Else's Anxiety
Hugo Awards: I think the only time I've been cranky over not getting an award was at a big corporate party years ago where many sales people got awards and the developers, QA, and IT staff were entirely ignored. We grumbled a little to ourselves (it just seemed a bit rude to do it that way), but we got over it. I'm reminded of erstwhile All My ( Read more... ) -
Money Penny
Speaking of rolls (see last post), I keep accumulating pennies way faster than I can pend them. Maybe I should ask the bank for rolls (I'm not actually sure how that works ( Read more... ) -
Win some, lose some
I have been on a roll, so to speak.- Last month, I won at table shuffleboard at a work get-together despite not having played for years. I made some good shots (though not consistently), and was able to coach my teammate who'd never played before. Thank you years of curling for related skills. If I played more, I'd play better.
- July 4th weekend, I ( Read more... )
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Fantasy / Games / Music
A couple of weekends ago I attended the Washington Metropolitan Gamer Symphony Orchestra's spring performance. They're playing again June 27 (in Virginia), for anyone who wants to go! I heard about them through LJ's Silmaril, who sings in their chorus. I only knew a few of the songs, since I don't video game much, but I liked a lot of what they ( Read more... ) -
Spokane words
A friend attempted to recruit me at Balticon to work tech crew for Sasquan, the upcoming World Science Fiction convention in Spokane, Washington. I've never worked tech crew before, and he knows it, but I can follow instructions, and I get that they might want someone they can trust against possible sabotage attempts. I'm flattered but wasn't ( Read more... ) -
Science fictiony
- Balticon: saw a bunch of friends there, yay. Competed in the science fiction trivia contest with LJ's squishydish, who won, congratulations! Also bought a bunch of pieces at the art show, though I let the one piece that went to auction (steamworks clock) go after driving the price up a bit for the artist (I would have taken it home happily if it ( Read more... )
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Wistful
My dad was diagnosed with lung cancer well over a year ago. He kept up with his stocks and industries reading until the end, looking at online reports and discussion boards as long as he could sit at his computer, and even having one of the sibs read some stock info to him as he was in his hospital bed. When he was better, he would happily talk ( Read more... ) -
Disorientation pink
What a month+ it's been. For those who don't know, my father died, and I was in North Carolina a lot, going down on short notice both times (thanks work for understanding and letting me telework some!) first to look after him a little, and then be with him when I found out he was rapidly getting much worse. In between, when I thought maybe he was ( Read more... ) -
Bygone Big Book
*Dune* used to be big. So big they made a movie of it (and a mini-series, but I never saw that), launching Kyle MacLachlan's career, more or less. I didn't watch it last night, but I did enjoy Conan the Destroyer last night, also produced by Dino and a much better date movie (Grace Jones! Olivia D'Abo! Wilt Chamberlain! Sarah Douglas! Swords, ( Read more... )
