Category: About Me
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Merry Christmas and Happy Doctor Who Day!
No matter what holiday you celebrate this time of year, I hope it’s going splendidly for you! If you’re with loved ones, may you have excellent food and presents; if you’re spending it alone, may you have something handy to pamper yourself, maybe good music or food or books. If you are a writer, may…
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Awesome Guitar Acquisition of Awesomeness
Ladies and gentlemen, as promised, today I went with my beloved solarbird to Dusty Strings and got myself a shiny brand new guitar! It took a bit of deciding, especially given that the place was a madhouse (they were having an open house and concert and they were packed wall to wall with people), but…
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Weekend of Turkey, Battlestar, and Potter
As is our custom at the Murkworks, we had our annual Homeless Waifs Thanksgiving Day Turkeyfest, and this time around we had a very respectable turnout of 16 people, including children. Much obliged to mamishka, technoshaman, maellenkleth, dpawtows, epawtows, ypawtows, cflute, sksouth, fredpdx, and Mimi’s friend Chad who all showed up to make a wonderful…
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What I’ve been doing lately instead of writing
Anybody who knows me at all knows I am a raving fan of Great Big Sea, the folk band from Canada. And anybody who pays attention to GBS’ various official online presences will know that they have a karaoke video contest in progress for their fans! Last night, my partner and I uploaded our entry…
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If anyone will be at Norwescon…
… and if you might happen to see me, please feel free to say hi. I won’t be doing anything formal-like related to the convention, I’m just attending like everybody else, but I’m in the mood to maybe see and talk to new faces. I’ll be seeing if I can show up at any e-pub…
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Conflikt was fun
Several of you who read my journal in whatever iteration already know this since you were actually there, but hey, Conflikt! That was fun. This was the first year that and I got to attend the whole convention, which was nice. We still pulled a commuter con, which was not quite so ideal; next year,…
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And now, a gratuitous icon post!
It occurred to me that if I was going to go around calling my LJ “Ordinary Day”, I should damn well have a default icon that reflects that. So for the benefit of those of you looking at this on my various LJ-flavored sites, check out the Alan and Sean loverliness. That shot is of…