Happy Easter
Thursday was the first day of spring.
Today, it's snowing.
Happy Easter, all.
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March 23, 2008
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March 17, 2008
Erin Go Braugh
Happy St. Pat's.
Being that it's a Monday it's unlikely that I'll be able to do any actual partying, but I'll lift my virtual green beer just the same.
And for your Irish edification: An A to Z of Irish Culture, courtesy of author John Scalzi, who is a funny guy and you should read his stuff anyway.
March 14, 2008
[Fiction] Friday #46
from here.
[Fiction] Friday Challenge for March 14, 2008:
Backstory: Tell about your characters feelings toward animals, and why she feels that way.
Aislinn is a character in my 2007 NaNo novel. She is the daughter of a king, and knew she was destined to give her life to the forest surrounding the castle since she was a young girl. She rides the forest often, loves her hunting horse, notices the little people and especially the groom in the stables. Since the world I set this novel in is your typical quasi-medieval sorta English countryside (it was supposed to be real England once, but I lost the time to do research), people know how to hunt. They use bows and spears, but I'd like to think that they do somewhat like the American Indians did: they thank their deity for the animal that gives up its life so that they might live. Aislinn has never had a pet, not unless you consider a horse a pet (and she doesn't, not when her mare derives as much joy from running as she does), but there were always dogs racing around the great hall, scrounging for bones. She tolerates them but makes sure they don't follow her to her rooms.
She has a soft spot for deer and rabbits.
Oh My God, Jars of Clay
Renegade's Magic, Robin Hobb
March 4, 2008
snow angels
...at least, that's what I'd like to be doing right now, and not be at work. It's too pretty of a snow to be inside. And then run inside to hot cocoa and other warm things to get rid of this sore throat. Damn winter and low humidity.
And bugger cars that need repairs. At least some of the repairs are covered by warranty (because of a nice serviceman, I suspect) but there are other things that need fixing that are required normal maintenance, so I just get to eat that. And it's fun to know that somewhere along the way I lost an oil cap. Shows you how I didn't look under the hood.
Eh. I didn't need to drive today anyway, and excess money just means I buy books. I've still got a fair amount in savings, even though I won't like losing the extra I was planning to put forward for Worldcon in August.
Gotta get cracking on that book, then.
