My camera didn't do it justice. Conjunction of the Moon and Venus.

Augh! I was SURE I had posted this... sheesh...

( at long last... )

Woe unto sahn who puts anyone's audiobooks on "shuffle," for they shall be given to satamuri as a toy.

Hi, everyone, Happy Merry!

Sorry for the lack of posts, been working all day, and playing far too much Spore.

I now have 15 new rose seedlings in the greenhouse, all open-pollinated. I'm beginning to despair for my deliberate crosses. Not a hint of activity from any of them, alas.

And started knitting socks. Realized at long last that the only way to get knee socks that will actually fit is to make my own, so...

Jotting down notes for Trail of the Great Rose part 3.

Other than that, not much is new.

Back to playing Spore!

more animals

It just gets longer and longer.... hopefully it's staying interesting. There's an illustration but it's not finished.

I've been having a lot of problems with the Mac version of Naturally Speaking. It does not allow you to type in a word and say, "This is how it's pronounced." You are allowed to select a word from a text file and add it to the vocabulary -- and then guess how the program would pronounce it. So instead of Rumau being "Roo-Mao" she is now "Rum-aww" and hannu rhymes with ham instead of calm... and Yre... it still has no idea how to pronounce Yre (maybe I should have spelled it "Yirreh"). But it got Mignette and Aurrigne immediately. Go figure...

( Chapter 56 )

I need to pay more attention. ( Here it is. )

is behind ( this link. )

More Chapters of TGR...

( right here )

Hiya, all

Work's keeping me busy, but I need to get TGR2 done. Not doing NaNoWriMo officially since this isn't a new novel, but got two chapters done this morning. Trying to train a Mac dictation program (since I don't have a running Windows version and there isn't one for Linux), so it's getting a bit bogged down. Will post the new chapters if anyone's interested.

Hi all,

been working 10 hour days and not getting much of anything done. Do any of you have a copy of The Terrible Two .pdf file? I lost all the original text files of the Klysadel stories. Won't bother telling you how...

Help!!

I knew I shouldn't have looked.

They're "remaking" (I use the term loosely) what I still consider the best SF movie ever made, "The Day The Earth Stood Still."

Trailer's on IMDb if you want to see it.

Feh!

-Fa

You know the one about "I've fallen, and I can't get up?"

Last night I found myself in exactly that position.

What caused it?

Dog drool.

Wnated to make sure all the cats were in for the night (only two of them go out). Was already in pajamas, and barefoot, and was trotting down the hallway (Pergo, slippery at best of time). Didn't see the puddle of dog drool in the spot where Naomi usually sleeps.

You know how you fall when you're skiing or ice skating and you go straight down on the butt?

Back is arthritic from scoliosis as it is. Well.... now it's worse. EMTs had to scoop me off the floor with this weird surfboard kind of thing.

Three hours and seven x-rays later, they sent me home on pain meds that are making me extremely loopy. And the certain knowledge that bikes, moped and horses are forever off-limits.

As my friend Ilene says: Getting Old: It's Not For Wimps.

Enough air travel, that is.

I used to love to get on a plane and fly places. Always got a window seat so I could look out the window and take pictures. Didn't mind airports, knew my way around most of the big ones and a few smaller ones in the US.

Just cancelled my last gig where I'd have to fly. Enough is enough.

I was never looking forward to it in the first place. The security checks are absurd; they're trying to prevent a crime that's already happened and is vanishingly unlikely to happen that way again. Last year when I went through Hartford CT, the security line was 1.5 hours long--at 6 AM! Then once you get on the plane it's worse. It's never been good: my knees have always hit the seat in front of me. Now I'm older and (a lot) bigger and it's far worse. But I could live with that if it weren't that people shlep their screaming kids everywhere and make no effort whatsoever to shut them up... and now they're talking about allowing cell phones?!

I could go on, but....... okay, that's it, that's enough for one lifetime.

Maybe soon there'll be some decent rail service out here, like there sort-of is back East. Until then, if my electric moped doesn't go there, I don't either.

It's kind of a relief, really...

Alas, I had to give up my little Linux laptop. The backlight was failing , it was cryingly slow, and worst of all, even the Beta version of Flash 10 for Linux doesn't work correctly. Since I need Flash for my job, it seemed time to get a new computer.

Ended up with an iMac 24. Got a huge screen, dual core, what will probably turn out to be enough memory, and not-too-shabby speakers. So this will end up being my Work Computer.

Still like Linux better, though.

I wake up to this image every morning. Good thing she's such a fabulous cat or I'd be well and truly traumatized by now.