books

good grief... (future of reading quote montage, cadged from reabhecc) I had not looked into the digital media books previously (since I don't want to be reading a book off my computer screen, anyway-- the resolution isn't good enough, and it's really just not the same) except for the fact that not just some but all of the wall ads leaving the Lafante Plaza metro station on Saturday were duplicates for somebody's new digital reader.

But speaking of reading, is anyone familiar with an author called Diana Gabaldon? I'm unclear as to whether she writes historical fiction or time-travel fantasy, but Donna keeps telling me about how good her books are, and how all of her other "Society for Creative Achronism" friends *love* this author, and what she writes is just so *real* that you feel like you're actually there, and all the things that people say which make me wonder if this is advice that I in fact wish to listen to. Besides the fact that the only other thing I know about her SCA friends is that she once made one of them an amazing bead embroidered bellydance belt, which does not necessarily instill me with confidence about their level of historical accuracy.

apparently it is not necessary to drink the absinthe for it to do funny things to your brains

Oh, and I just won an e-bay auction (a thing I haven't done since I signed up for e-bay in, um, '01?) since the few things I've gotten recently were buy-it-now style, and it was a cheap bead lot from someone who had leftovers from a project which I bid on and forgot about on friday, and within half an hour of winning the auction, the shipping label had been printed out and ready to go. Apparently parts of the world have gotten faster in the past few years...

Meanwhile, 1.5 of my 4.5 maybes showed up for craft day yesterday, which was entirely sufficient to keep me entertained through finishing 4 projects-- or five, if you count the experimental bubble tea. What we learn is that the tapioca pearls available undyed from the asian grocery store cook up clear, unless you don't cook them quite long enough in which case they have white centers and look like frog eggs. Much to the entertainment of the consumers, in this particular case.

( a rather washed out picture with the completed projects you haven't seen before )