Elizabeth Moon's Blog, page 69

From Twitter 09-15-2010

01:04:09: They don't have a mission statement. WHY don't they have a mission statement? (Deep in second pile of stuff.)
08:37:02: Note to self: if you already have logged in to your own blog, you can't log in again in another window. Check login status.
09:09:04: Urban orchardists: http://torontoist.com/2009/08/a_city_bears_fruit.php Love "waste" fruit going to good cause.

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From Twitter 09-14-2010

08:47:35: RT @PublishersWkly: Huff Post: Jane Yolen, on writing her 300th book http://huff.to/bjwKaa
08:49:14: RT @NASA: Arctic sea ice is a few weeks away from its annual low point. Here's the latest NASA satellite view. http://go.usa.gov/xT1
08:55:07: Need to figure out why some days cannot get good signal from a station that's perfectly clear other days.
09:11:55: Ted Eubanks on the Culture of Conservation: http://www.birdspert.org/?p=968 "Space" for "place."
09:22:06: Cooking. Today...

All-Clad Joy

I've now used the All-Clad roasting pan.  OMG.  Not only is it sturdy (and heavy!) but it cleans up SO easily compared to the old alumninum one.  No pits.  Stuff not sticking.  Toss in the gluggle of red wine to deglaze and that's what happens...off come the brown bits and into the soup they go.  A little bit of scuffing up with a nylon scrubber--no real effort--was all it took to get one more stuck bit off the bottom, and in one run through the hot & soapy, I had a clean roaster.

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From Twitter 09-13-2010

09:02:26: Mixed cereal for the next month. (Cereals, seeds, nuts mixed in 5 gal. tub & then poured into 1 gal glass jars.)
10:51:41: Theoden riding down the line, touching the spears with his sword...that's one that grabs me by the heart and throat.
11:52:15: For all dog owners: Dorrana Durgin's comments on loose dogs...get a clue and use that leash. http://tinyurl.com/2vhmx42
13:13:23: Just got message that someone (not named) is having trouble sending email to my e-addy. Odd, because I'm...

It's Not Con Crud...

...but it's annoying.   I've had con crud often enough, in several variations, to recognize con crud.  This is just the blahs.  The fuzzed brain.  The waking up thinking I'm somewhere else than at home (this morning it wasn't the train, but a hotel.  The sound of the garbage truck up the street magnified itself into real city traffic.)   The attention still fastened to Dragon*Con,  programming, talks with editor, talks with other writers, etc.  Usually I get home and quickly detach from a...

From Twitter 09-12-2010

08:08:24: I'm ready for post-trip aches and brain-fuzz to be gone. They're lounging around in joints, sinuses, and neural junctions, unwanted guests.
08:22:33: Friend sent me pix of recent vacation including her son and an older man juggling--including on tight rope. Wow.
09:45:41: RT @io9: Best and worst childbirth scenes in science fiction and fantasy http://io9.com/5633419/
10:08:30: Didn't realize I'd left a Sousa CD in the boombox when I left for Atlanta. THAT woke me up just...

From Twitter 09-11-2010

07:26:49: Last night woke up thinking I was still on the train. Clearly trip-fuzz is not completely out of my brain.
08:18:15: Having managed to find hanging space for frying pan, now want hanging space for other pans. Hmmm...
12:30:52: Ate lunch outside. Came in hot, moist, and mosquito-bitten, but having seen gorgeous dragonflies.
13:04:30: Picture that's appeared on my twitter page is same as on one of my 80acres business cards. W'd like to put more of my pix up. How?
13:07:29: HA! Went...

Citizenship

I was on a "Politics in SF" panel at Dragon*Con which once more convinced me that a lot of people should've been made to read "The Man Without a Country" a few more times.   Though, with the sneering generation (Baby Boomers, starting a year after my unnamed contingent, were spectacularly good sneerers) that probably would not have had the desired effect...my desired effect, at least, which would be to remind people that the person with no loyalty to anything but his/her own pleasure is not a...

The Lost Post Found

Various chores had to be accomplished today and more must come tomorrow.   Not to mention getting on with the book in progress.   Today two characters were giving me trouble...the one who should be in a hot action sequences paused partway down a staircase and could not decide whether to do back up or on down or stay there.  The one who is supposedly humanizing comic relief rattled on and on about things with little connection to the plot and that weren't funny.  I realized then that in the...

From Twitter 09-10-2010

08:16:18: An emailed .pdf file came in w/pages upside down. Any quick easy way to rotate them?
08:45:07: .pdf file solution: View: Rotate View: clockwise twice brings it rightside up. (Gee, self, RTFM on your own tabs!)
08:52:27: Today: laundry from trip (first load almost done, second waiting), phone conf. w/editor, watch grass turn green again after rain.
10:28:43: Cloudy earlier, now sun...can dry clothes on line, maybe? Should check weather radar, see if anything's coming.
18:47:44: Need...