Weekend wrapup

[pbray]

It was a very busy weekend. I became proficient at dosing the cat with her antibiotics, a life skill I hope I don't have to use again soon. Fortunately jennifer_dunne returned home last night, so the cat now has her proper human instead of a spare who merely stops by three times a day.

In writing news, I polished up the article on character naming for the STAR chapter newsletter. While doing the research for the article I purchased yet another book of names, proving that you can never have too many. Which reminds me of the conversation that I had with my brother, while he and his wife were thinking of names for their baby.

Patricia: "Which one of us is expecting a child?"
Andrew: "I am."
Patricia: "And which one of us owns seven books of baby names?"
Andrew: "I guess that would be you. Hey, you think we ought to buy one of those books?"

Yesterday I went to lunch at the Cybercafe, bringing along mizkit's Coyote Dreams, which I couldn't wait to finish. The music system must have been set to shuffle on someone's MP3 player, treating us to everything from heavy metal to power ballads. I wasn't paying much attention when Frank Sinatra came on singing My Way, but as the chorus came up, the patrons spontaneously began singing along.

The rotation also included the theme from Hill Street Blues, which inspired me to go home and purchse my first downloaded song from iTunes. Just hearing the opening bars of that theme I can instantly picture the rain, and the bleak cityscape. It's a great song for evoking despair, which is probably going to be one of my playlists when I get more organized.

Now it's back to the grind--I've finally been allowed to leave the old job, and will be taking a new assignment in the company starting tomorrow. Less finance, more technical. Looking forward to a new set of challenges. Of course, there will be the inevitable transition period where I'm doing two jobs at once, but hey, that's the breaks.

Comments

[mizkit.livejournal.com]

music system must have been set to shuffle on someone's MP3 player

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*looks at the new MP3 player she bought, all loaded up with music and ready to go*

*observes herself, all sweaty from going for a walk on which it simply did not occur to her to bring an MP3 player*

...

I can see this is going to take some getting used to. o.o :)

Also:

Yesterday I went to lunch at the Cybercafe, bringing along mizkit's Coyote Dreams, which I couldn't wait to finish.

Yay! :)

[pbray.livejournal.com]

Finally finished it last night, and YAY! Glad to know that there are more Walker Papers books in the future, even if you're going to make me wait 2 years *pout*

[fireun.livejournal.com]

Cyber is a wonderful place. tends to be my default for a place to be when not at work *grin*

i keep looking at Coyote Dreams and the previous two books while at work. i shall take your desire to finish the new one asap as a rec for the series.

[pbray.livejournal.com]

I love hanging out there. I can go there with friends or by myself. I can stay there just long enough to catch a quick meal, or hang out for a couple of hours reading, critiquing story notes, or just chatting. Plus they keep changing the beers on draft so I have to make sure I've tried them all. (Yesterday's was Arrogant Bastard Ale. I like the name. I like the beer.)

And yes, take this as a MUST READ rec for the series. There are three books, plus a novella in the anthology WINTER MOON (and, frankly, Murphy's story was the best of the collection).

[fireun.livejournal.com]

Arrogant Bastard sounds like a winner. will have to give that a try next time i see it.

i didnt know there was a novella! *adds to list*
well, i know what i am reading next! am almost done with the backlog of books i had accumulated. work is the bane of my existence, and not in the usual way. i think i should start just signing over my paycheck twice a month.

[sylvia-rachel.livejournal.com]

Congrats on the new job :). Anything with less finance sounds good to me ;)

[pbray.livejournal.com]

Yeah, sounds good to me too.

[jennifer-dunne.livejournal.com]

You are the catsitting god.

I totally owe you.

And I totally forgot to give you both the deck of cards and "Love your inner demon" note paper I picked up for you at RT. Or did I ship those??? Well, I've got your "tickled pink" dragon. I think. Maybe I should open the suitcase? Or at least move it out of the kitchen...

[pbray.livejournal.com]

The essential part of cat sitting is to provide sufficient time for the cat to actually sit on the spare human.