Stuff and such....
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kinzelOddly busy these last few days with a lot of running and doing and not much to show for it ....yet...
our flea market experience yesterday -- which necessitated running around for several days early in the week... was a real dud. There weren't many tables and there were certainly not many people, what with the weather being flawless -- cloudless, warm, a breeze light enough that walking around the outside of the school (which I did several times while waiting for the end of the day...sigh) -- and so we broke even and earned enough to buy a a pound of butter and a pound of cheese and a bottle or ordinary wine.
Wait, I guess I need to deduct the $3 I spent on local home-made apple jelly and the 50 cents spent on a cinnamon brownie made by some of the students of the Class of 2008, Winslow High. But gang, you'll have to do better if you want to raise money for that graduation trip!
We cleared out a few items, and I guess having identified things we can do without we'll now work on doing without them rather than adding them back to the house-hold clutter. We can hope...
Meanwhile, as mentioned on a mailing list:
we're trying to schedule an open house in Second Life, maybe with a
short workshop, next week, May 6 and 7, for FoL. Need SL volunteer tour
guides, location staff... and ideas. Possibilities on the weekend include
a shopping tour, garden tour, and (etceteras...)
So, if you haven't tried Second Life, a sort of 3D chat-world with extras,
log on and mention Elan Neruda or Kit Jimenez as your reference. If you become
a regular member of Second Life we get a very modest in-world bonus and
you get to play, or work, or create, as is your habit and need.
Writing is moving in fits and starts since I got back from PenguiCon,
this not aided by the prescriptions and counter-prescriptions for me and
a run of take-the-cat-to-the-vet that's very discouraging. Now Scrabble is the
one showing signs of unease and sneezing...
And I've been fiddling various web pages and am *slowly* working my way through a
Dreamweaver tutorial. Ouch, am reminded of my chemistry professor's
"And, as obviously follows" demonstration for molarity or whatever...
Weather report: very nice. I'd prefer to be at the ocean.
Oh, yeah, if all goes well I'll have a few more comments on Penguicon.
I will say now, as I did at closing ceremonies in Livonia, that I've spent several
years of my life at science fiction conventions... and my time at Penguicon was among the best days
of those several years.
our flea market experience yesterday -- which necessitated running around for several days early in the week... was a real dud. There weren't many tables and there were certainly not many people, what with the weather being flawless -- cloudless, warm, a breeze light enough that walking around the outside of the school (which I did several times while waiting for the end of the day...sigh) -- and so we broke even and earned enough to buy a a pound of butter and a pound of cheese and a bottle or ordinary wine.
Wait, I guess I need to deduct the $3 I spent on local home-made apple jelly and the 50 cents spent on a cinnamon brownie made by some of the students of the Class of 2008, Winslow High. But gang, you'll have to do better if you want to raise money for that graduation trip!
We cleared out a few items, and I guess having identified things we can do without we'll now work on doing without them rather than adding them back to the house-hold clutter. We can hope...
Meanwhile, as mentioned on a mailing list:
we're trying to schedule an open house in Second Life, maybe with a
short workshop, next week, May 6 and 7, for FoL. Need SL volunteer tour
guides, location staff... and ideas. Possibilities on the weekend include
a shopping tour, garden tour, and (etceteras...)
So, if you haven't tried Second Life, a sort of 3D chat-world with extras,
log on and mention Elan Neruda or Kit Jimenez as your reference. If you become
a regular member of Second Life we get a very modest in-world bonus and
you get to play, or work, or create, as is your habit and need.
Writing is moving in fits and starts since I got back from PenguiCon,
this not aided by the prescriptions and counter-prescriptions for me and
a run of take-the-cat-to-the-vet that's very discouraging. Now Scrabble is the
one showing signs of unease and sneezing...
And I've been fiddling various web pages and am *slowly* working my way through a
Dreamweaver tutorial. Ouch, am reminded of my chemistry professor's
"And, as obviously follows" demonstration for molarity or whatever...
Weather report: very nice. I'd prefer to be at the ocean.
Oh, yeah, if all goes well I'll have a few more comments on Penguicon.
I will say now, as I did at closing ceremonies in Livonia, that I've spent several
years of my life at science fiction conventions... and my time at Penguicon was among the best days
of those several years.
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2006-05-01 08:51 (UTC)As far as ideas, how about a Tour of Europe (Dublin and Amsterdam sims, as well as I think I remember a city in Italy, maybe Florence?, and Venice)
A castle tour -- the castle sim is supposed to be very impressive
An amusement park tour -- everyone needs to know how to ride a water slide, and throw Skee-balls. :-)
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2006-05-04 07:56 (UTC)we'll be scheduling ourselves to stop by the Friends of Liad Park in our guise as mild-manner professional writers a number of time during the weekend and will do a short soverview of how-not-to-sell-an-editor-on-your story and such... things that are popular at conventions -- when we have enough people about. I'll be rushing off to the printer right now ... I'll try to get a fuller schedule up this evening. Want to set yourself in the schedule as a visitng writer or writer-as-tour-guide on Saturday and or Sunday? Let me know -- an hour or so at a time -- when would be good for you. One or both of us will do 1 PM (Eastern) Sunday and 7PM (eastern)Sunday and some roving time not yet set for Saturday.
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2006-05-04 08:15 (UTC)Is the idea to attract people new to SL, but longterm Liaden fans? Or just a gathering in one place of Liaden fans who are SL'ers? I'm happy to wear either the guest-author or SL guide hat, just want to know which you think your guests would find most useful.
And I've got my SL writers' workshop tonight. I'll tell folks to visit over the weekend, especially 10am and 4pm SLT on Sunday.
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2006-05-04 11:40 (UTC)We'd like to get the Liaden fans who are able/interested onto SL since we can't treavel and be everywhere peopel want us to be and travel. Beyond that, the idea is to create a space for science fiction readers and writers, not just Liaden fans; so much of the space on SL seems devoted to...
rave/dance/gamble stuff that it seemed there should be a place to talk about SF and fantasy... we'll be seeting up sonme events with topics to see if we draw folks... you lnow, typical SF convetion panel topics, as it were. And why shouldn't SF writers and fans have an active spot in a virtual community, after all?