Today we went out and did a little shopping. kitanzi needed to pick up a prescription at CVS, so we stopped in there. While she was talking to the pharmacy, I wandered around looking at things, and found the most bizzare package of dolphin shaped condoms. I’d never heard of such a thing, and finding it appropriately strange, took it over to show my companions. khaosworks gave it an odd look, cocked his head to one side, and said “Is it tuna-safe?”
As I do customarily for cons I’ve attended, I’m collecting con reports in my LJ memories. The ones for Gafilk 2008 can be found here:
Please leave a comment if I’ve missed yours. Thanks!
bunny_hugger, who I know from else-Internet, had this to share on New Years:
On Christmas Eve, I watched Scrooge, the 1951 version with Alistair Sim. This is not only my favorite holiday film, it is one of my very favorite films. As I watched it, I realized that part of what makes Sim’s portrayal so great is that he doesn’t overdo his portrayal of “mean Scrooge.” You can still see flashes of the kinder man that Scrooge once was, and this makes it more believable when he transforms into “good Scrooge” at the end of the film.
This ties in with something I have been thinking about a lot lately. It seems to me that people almost never really change — at least, not in the sense of becoming an entirely different person. Instead, I think that people become better or worse versions of what they already are. People’s essential personality traits generally stay the same; but what they put those traits in service of, and which traits come more to the front, will change over time.
With that in mind, I offer this New Year wish. I wish that all of you will become a better version of yourself in the New Year. And I hope, and resolve, that I will do the same.
Something to chew on.
I posted this last year, and I think it still applies. There are many New Year’s wishes. This one is mine.
Hello, and welcome to 2008.
In 2008, may you spend more time looking forward, not looking back.
In 2008, may you spend more time making grand plans and executing them, inviting your soul and being creative, and living life to the fullest.
In 2008, may you spend more time doing small, special things for your friends, your family, your loved ones.
In 2008, may you spend more time laughing, and making music, and increasing the joy in the people around you.
In 2008, may you spend more time helping each other, and holding each other, and saying “I love you” to each other.
Best wishes to you all. The best is yet to be.
Hello, and welcome to 2007. I am in London, safe and sound, and with only a small bit of drama. Kitanzi and I are sitting at the gate at SFO, waiting to board. aiela pointed me at this video, thus demonstrating one of the many reasons I love her: Back in 1996, having been drug by me kicking and screaming onto the Internet, vila_resthal started submitting some of his fiction to an online fanzine called “The Dragon’s Lair”, which was run by a Baltimore fan named Roger Bennett. If cadhla participates in Blog Like It’s The End Of The World Day…..would anyone notice? kitanzi found this via StumbleUpon. The new issue of Aphelion Webzine went up on Wednesday, right on time. This has been a trip, thus far, of exceptionally useful voluntary purchases. I don’t usually mark birthdays here, because I know that I’d forget one sooner or later, but I couldn’t let the day go by without saying Happy Birthday to my darling sweetie, aiela. When asked to describe my musical tastes, the word I’d most often use is “eclectic”. And you can read all about it here!
What can I say? It was a year.
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Everyone has a favourite Christmas song. Mine is “Fairytale of New York” by The Pogues and Kirsty MacColl.
The BBC news site has a nice article about the song.. Thanks to kitanzi for sending me the link.
Merry Christmas, everyone.
We didn’t end up playing D&D last night, because 2 of our players didn’t make it, so it was a couple of hands of Munchkin and general revelry instead. Don won the first game, and I won the second. kitanzi made cookies.
Best exchange of the evening…I forget what I actually quipped to start this:
Don: Yeah, yeah. You’re very funny.
kitanzi: He thinks he is.
Me: *mock pout* Some people seem to like it.
kitanzi: They’re just humouring you, dear.
Me: Oh. (thoughtful pause) Humouring me certainly seems to involve a lot of nudity.
(At which point, kitanzi cracks up and Don gets the look of someone who has lost his place and is trying to figure out where the turn was….*grin*)
This morning on #filkhaven, dank pointed me at a CNN article about Virtual Reality gifts. and the following just popped into my head.
Really Simple Gifts
TTTO: “Simple Gifts”
It’s a gift that is simple
And it’s sure to appeal
And it doesn’t matter if it isn’t real
Just click on the mouse and an icon appears
And you’ll find this passes for Christmas cheer
Buy, buy, whatever you may see
Virtual gifts for your family
Spend all your cash in an online spree
and divorce yourself from reality