Jeanine

Cassandra as Clone Warrior


Calliope as Jedi Knight


Cassiopeia as Darth Vader

Happy Birthday, dear msadie
I miss seeing you.

There's something important they forgot to tell me...

Dr. Egon Spengler: There's something very important I forgot to tell you.
Dr. Peter Venkman: What?
Dr. Egon Spengler: Don't cross the streams.
Dr. Peter Venkman: Why?
Dr. Egon Spengler: It would be bad.
Dr. Peter Venkman: I'm fuzzy on the whole good/bad thing. What do you mean, "bad"?
Dr. Egon Spengler: Try to imagine all life as you know it stopping instantaneously and every molecule in your body exploding at the speed of light.
Dr Ray Stantz: Total protonic reversal.
Dr. Peter Venkman: Right. That's bad. Okay. All right. Important safety tip. Thanks, Egon.

How Everything Goes to Hell in a Zombie Apocalypse

Feed the Kitty

Fixed the link for Feed the Kitty which is my second favorite Looney Tunes cartoon ever! I giggle each time I watch Marc Anthony put the little kitty cookie on his back.

Kiss Me Cat
Feline Frame Up
Cat Feud


Can you guess my favorite Looney Tunes cartoon? It's not one of these.

The article.
The video.

Discuss.

Cat Feud
Feed the Kitty
Kiss Me Cat
Feline Frame Up


Fixed the link for Feed the Kitty which is my second favorite Looney Tunes cartoon ever!

Can you guess my favorite?

It's been a pretty good day in spite of getting into a fender bender in the parking lot at the grocery store.

We met up with chrysolithos and Zev at the Magnuson Park Off-leash area. vali_dog was really happy to see Zev. There was chasing, rolling, leaping, etc. Vali even played with dogs other than Zev!

Then I started catching up on my "to do" list. I'm almost done. Yay!

-Many of the usual suspects have contact the hotel at norwescon dot org email address to request suites. I replied to everyone on November 1st and followed up with information by mid week. Today I updated the spreadsheet we use to keep track of requests.
- Updated the staff list that the fabulous hotel liaison started.
- Converted hotel contract docs to pdf files to make it easier to upload to google docs. And then uploaded the docs.
- Rearranged a ridiculous number of Norwescon docs saved on my hard drive so that they'll be easier for someone else to find when they're backed up to a CD.
- Responded to and filed tons of email messages.
- Created a spreadsheet to track a bunch of other tasks.
- Tested new auto attendant programming for work.
- Tinkered with data from the phone system at work to figure out what data will be useful to disply daily, weekly and monthly.

I have a 27 items on my to do list.
I'm past deadline in getting most things on the list done.
I'm tired, resentful and crabby.
I want to take a nap or go shopping.

The Build a Bear winter "catalog" arrived yesterday. On November 15th they will begin selling Star Wars costumes: Darth Vader, Clone Captain, Jedi Knight & Anakin Skywalker. The Jedi Knight costume is especially cute.

Hurray!
Kij Johnson won the World Fantasy Award for her short story, "26 Monkeys, Also the Abyss".
http://www.worldfantasy2009.org/?page_id=10

Note to self:
Different is not always wrong. Sometimes it's just different.
Your way might be right. That doesn't mean that someone else's way is wrong.

Go Team Swanson!

The house looks pretty darn good after a couple days of organizing closets, dusting, vacuuming, scrubbing and such. The dog brings in all manner of filth at this time of year.

vali_dog enjoys his comforts.

We searched for bed that would fit a big German Shepherd Dog and found that it's not easy to find one that looks okay, is durable, and not so costly that I'll resent replacing it when it can't be cleaned.

We found this at Ikea. Oh, sure it's a kid's bed. But it's big enough for our vali_dog. And Ikea also sells fitted sheets for it so we can wash the cover. And change it up a bit if we get bored.

So, we can all agree that vali_dog is spoiled and lucky to have such a comfy bed. But he would much prefer to sleep on our bed. Because, after all, it's got a comforter on it. So it MUST be better.

vali_dog stood patiently near the bed while woadwarrior and I were making the bed with freshly laundered sheets. Neither of us are clairvoyant, but it was easy to read his mind. **Comforter...oh, I love the comforter. Please, oh please, please... leave the room so I can sneak up on the bed....

We shooed him out of the room. We followed him and closed the bedroom door. He stopped, waited for us to pass, turned back to the bedroom door and then pushed at it with his nose. Just in case the door knob latch didn't catch.

He shot us a very sad look when he discovered that the door really was closed and the comforter out of reach.

Today is the 80th birthday of Ursula K. Le Guin!
http://www.sfwa.org/2009/10/happy-birthday-ursula-k-le-guin/

Happy birthday dear lasirenadolce.
I hope you have a day the creates many, many happy memories.

http://www.hrc.org/issues/13476.htm

I had the opportunity to visit with several people at Foolscap 11 including the writer GoH, Peter David. The conversation rambled. At one point we talked about books we loved as kids and how we felt about them when we revisited them as adults. Peter shared that he loved the Tarzan books when he was a kid, but when he re-read them as an adult he still liked the stories, but the writing was terrible. He illustrated this by saying that Burroughs wrote stuff like, "Stop!" Tarzan ejaculated. Peter claimed that Tarzan ejaculated 49 times in the book.

Naturally we sniggered like a bunch of 12 year olds.

I know I posted this yesterday, but it bears repeating.

You have a very short time to see this movie in a Seattle movie theatre.
Make the effort. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1229360/

Go see this movie!

Jack White of the White Stripes!
The Edge of U2!
Jimmy Page of Led Zeppelin and the Yardbirds (but mostly Led Zeppelin)!!!