Lynn Flewelling's Blog, page 100

Voice Post

LOL Just noticed the transcription. Love how they spelled my name! If I need a pseudonym, perhaps I can use it.

Invasion

A major ant invasion this afternoon. Doug had to come home and gas them, after I tore the pantry apart to get rid of whatever was attracting them. They came in through the ceiling by the front door, marched around the crown molding into the dining room, and into the kitchen, across the top of the fridge and down into the five shelves of the pantry. Thousands of the little critters! The house is a shambles and reeks of Raid. Not conducive to creativity, but I forge onward.

Bakshi

I had a relatively productive writing day today, part of which was describing the game of bakshi, which has existed since book one, with very little detail. I've always known it was played with gaming stones, sets of which can be as simple as a handful of pebbles or very elaborate and expensive carved semi precious stones. I know that it can be played on a formal table, or on a grid of some sort scratched into the dust or chalked on a floor. The point is to capture opponent's pieces, and to ...

Teaview

California Tea House Silver Needle: White teas take a sensitive palate to appreciate them, as they are very subtle. Here's a good one.

The View From Here

The end of a long but fairly productive day. I drew a Tarot card for inspiration this morning and got "Judgement", which is about shedding old skins, renewel, resurrection. After a bit of a dry spell these past few days, my writer mind resurrected itself and I sloughed off some dead stuff and added some new. Not a bad day.





And yes, my office really is that dark and murky and red. ;-)

"The Snow Machine Pummeled Through the White-Dusted Plain Like a Jubilant Beaver"

The results of Slate Magazine's "Write like Sarah Palin" contest! No, I didn't enter.
http://www.slate.com/id/2237261

Spidey no more

Operation Spider Lift was a success. No casualties at all. He is now a free range spider.

Not so inseey weensy spider

I have a new friend. I call him Spider. Actually, he is a spider and he is currently living in the guest bathroom sink. He is in considerable danger of being washed "down the water spout", although I am careful. I really need to get a glass or something and air lift him outside. I think he's just a wolf spider. I don't know what a brown recluse looks like.

Here's Spider.

Hotchins on a Surfboard!

LOL! Watching bits and pieces of "Psycho Beach Party" and Thomas Gibson from "Criminal Minds" is in it as a surfer dude named Kanaka. Same haircut. Same stone face. Horrible acting. Picture Hotch in a Hawaiian shirt and board shorts. And then in black lingerie and bondage cuffs! Too funny!

Enough jocularity. Off to work.

An Unexpected Otter!

I made one of my sporadic visits to the post office today to mail the contest book marks and when I checked my mail, there was a large package waiting for me. Inside was an almost life sized statue of an otter, sent to me by a generous and thoughtful lady named Holly Hancock. Holly, if you're here, THANK YOU!! She's adorable. At the moment she is standing guard at my office door.






She looks very happy there, don't you think? :-D