Martha Wells's Blog, page 207

The weather was unexpectedly cool this weekend (cloudy an...

The weather was unexpectedly cool this weekend (cloudy and in the low 80s as opposed to the low 90s), so it was great for going out and doing stuff. A friend came in from out of town and we watched Sherlock Holmes on DVD, since she had never seen it. (It's my fourth time to see it and it's still awesome.) On Saturday morning we went up to campus so she could see the One Hundred Years Hence: SF and Fantasy at Texas A&M University exhibit.

So I could show her this:

Because that's never going...

Hey, thank you to lwdagreat and anonymous for the milk an...

Hey, thank you to lwdagreat and anonymous for the milk and cookie virtual gifts on my profile!

I went to the police station this morning to get a copy of the police report from my accident (Unit #1 failed to control its speed and struck Unit #2 in the rear bumper with enough force to cause Unit #2 to strike Unit #3, Unit #3 then struck Unit #4, Unit #4 then struck Unit #5. I was Unit #4.) to tie things up with the insurance company. The police station has a duck pond next to it, and when I w...

Got the car back, which is a big relief.* Hair For Oil Sp...

Got the car back, which is a big relief.


* Hair For Oil Spills Something I did not know and you probably didn't either: human hair and shed animal fur can be used to clean up oil spills, and this site tells how to collect it and where to send it. Quick, start brushing your cats! Seriously, the Gulf needs this now.

* Do the Write Thing For Nashville This is a writing-related auction for flood relief for the Nashville area. From the descriptions, critiques from editors and agents will be up for...

My car is finally getting repaired after the accident las...

My car is finally getting repaired after the accident last month, and this is the third day it's been in the body shop. Yes, I am stir-crazy, why do you ask?

Happy Cinco de Mayo! Most of the fun stuff in Austin was held this past weekend, it looks like. It sucks when holidays requiring outdoor cooking are on weekdays.

I also missed the Austin Zombie Walk, which was May 1. Here's a link to a video on Facebook, hopefully this works.


Couple of links:

* My friend Katie's photograph prints. Her...

Charity Auctions

I just posted an offer for an autographed hardcover set of the Fall of Ile Rien trilogy in debsliverlovers

is a fandom auction to benefit Deb Mensinger and her wife, Laurie J. Marks (author of the Elemental Logic series, the Children of the Triad series, The Watcher's Mask, and Dancing Jack, and guest of honor at WisCon 31). Bidding begins on Saturday, May 1, 2010, at 12:01 am Eastern Daylight Savings Time, and closes on Sunday, May 23, 2010, 11:59 pm Eastern DST.

This auction is to raise...

Storm fronts coming through on Friday and Saturday made m...

Storm fronts coming through on Friday and Saturday made my sinuses feel all explody. I got some recommendations for the neti pot on Facebook, and may end up trying that. It made me remember how my mother always hauled out the humidifier whenever I got sick (we lived up in Fort Worth, where it's a lot dryer during the winter). The humidifier she had was probably from the 50s and looked like an old Doctor Who prop and made a bizarre series of noises. One time when I had strep throat, my dog...

Since about the time Spike died, our cat Bella became the...

Since about the time Spike died, our cat Bella became the-cat-who-lives-upstairs and refuses to come downstairs for any reason. We tried carrying her down there, feeding her down there, moving the litterbox down there (that really, really didn't work). It got worse when we got Tasha, who was kind of an angry kitten and immediately started to push Bella around, and took the opportunity to seize control of the downstairs. (Except for Harry. Harry's territory has no bounds. But he doesn't ...

Last night turned out to be very strange. At around 2:30...

Last night turned out to be very strange. At around 2:30 am, I was woken up by a pounding noise. Our bedroom is on the second story and our house is in a cul-de-sac, so the acoustics are odd. Sounds that are across the street will sound like they're close enough to be in our yard, and so on. But we had two windows open, one at the front of the room, looking down on our front yard, and one in the master bathroom, facing the side yard and our neighbors' house. But this was definitely pound...

Beautiful weather = very difficult to concentrate on work...

Beautiful weather = very difficult to concentrate on work. I should take pictures of my plants before it gets any warmer and everything dies.

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Patrice Sarath has photos from her visit to the Jane Austen museum in Chawton

Please Cease and Desist the top ten things authors should never do to promote their book. She's got the Facebook favorite listed as number one, which is where someone sends you "become my fan!" page suggestions over and over and over again. And then they do it again. ...

OMG, this is adorable: baby snow leopards on a zoo webcam.

OMG, this is adorable: baby snow leopards on a zoo webcam.