Gayle asked me to post since we are currently without electricity, and my laptop has 30 minutes of juice left in it … plus the only network connection. We had a severe thunderstorm move through the area about four hours ago, and now our county has 1000 people in the dark. The next biggest outage […]
When the cellphone craze first started many, many years ago. I looked into getting one and looked at the prices and walked away. Years later, I was living in Maryland and traveling in the DC area, and often wouldn’t be able to make it to appointments on time due to traffic. I figured having a […]
The Plight of the Darcy Brothers begins several months after the ending of The Darcys & the Bingleys. Elizabeth has miscarried. She and Darcy are devastated but they have their son, Geoffrey, who is very much like his father, and they are assured that there will be more children. Starting with such sadness, you’d expect […]
I can’t count the number of times I’ve seen a crew member exposed to lethal radiation in science fiction stories and the doc just loads up the anti-radiation serum and gives them a shot and everything is looking good. In movies and TV, I’m sure you’ve seen it. Just the other night we were watching […]
If you’ve been reading my blog for any length of time, you know that I’m a wicked (in the New England use of the term) fan of Jane Austen’s works and avidly read and review many of the the books written by others to continue the story of the characters that Austen breathed life into. […]
It was 40 years ago today that man landed on the Moon. We did it. We wanted to get there before the Russians and put all the energy and enthusiasm into getting a man on the moon first our priority. I remember that day, watching TV and holding my breath as the craft began its […]
Friday night was the 3rd Friday meeting of WSFA. It was a very long business meeting and the upshot is that there is going to be some exciting news about Capclave 2009 very soon now. Updates and news about what’s happening at Capclave can be found on the new Capclave blog. Then this afternoon there […]
I woke up with a headache this morning. I tried ignoring it until around 6 but it didn’t work, it just kept getting worse and worse. Finally, I took Advil — no joy. Then IMITREX, still getting worse. Checked the barometer and it’s fine. Then the light dawns. The temperature sky-rocketed today. Probably in celebration […]