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Finished one and a half of the large things on my to-do list for this week, but we had a nice hard rain this morning and so the part of the basement with the mostly-empty file cabinet is flood central (why have we not done anything about this yet? The woe-meter is rising! Although at least the file cabinet is still on dry ground; it's just wet to get to it.) and thus difficult to move things around in, since there's limited dry floor space, and I have been reduced to wandering around the living room wishing we had a mud room to put all this sports junk into, not to mention enough space for that other bookshelf...
At least all the fabric is indoors, in the highest and still dry corner of the basement. With all my non-resin dolls, who of course care whether they're wet or dry or kept at a decent temperature. Someday I will have a couple of curio cabinets and put them, and the small rodent skulls, and the interesting rocks in unusual wine glasses, and all my other interesting and completely useless stuff on display somewhere. This is the theory, at any rate. Perhaps we can intersperse them with display swords and![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
grauwulf's award scrolls for balance. That, some bookshelves, some windows, and maybe the turtle tank sounds like good living room decor, yes?
In the present (as opposed to hypothetical time) I have drawn up plans for a hutch with bookshelves to sit on the back half of my desk, and if I manage most of this week's goals in good order, I think I'll be ready to go get the hardware store to cut up a sheet of heavy plywood to my specifications, and possibly indulge myself with a box of nice short self-tapping screws. This weekend I'm kind of looking forward to the local event, which will be the first time I've managed to attend an Artisan's Row. (SCA craft day! whee!) I can't really remember the last time I went to an event without intent to fence (or at least dressing so that I could) but I'm not eligible for the novice tourney, and not interested in the triple elim, so we'll see. I guess I should scare up a period project to work on in the next day or two, huh?
In the mean time, I've been populating my friends list with author blogs, which is a strange and fascinating thing. I haven't decided how I feel about fandom, as such; to a certain extent it's a bit creepy, and that's why I've previously read books but not researched or followed authors. There's some benefit to reading what people who write fiction I enjoy write in their journals, though, and getting a bit more familiar with other people's mechanics of writing and with the SF/F fandoms & publishing industry is probably good for me. But then there's the problem of reading what other people write, and starting to feel like you know something about someone who wouldn't know you from a hole in the ground (or might, but might not and you have no way of knowing...), and this confuses me. Not, I think, excessively important, but there's a definite learning curve. I tend to reply to posts when I think someone has said something interesting, but I'm trying to learn to censor the pointless agreement or "yes, that was interesting" impulses in the direction of strangers, while not be scared off too much by 50+ comments already on an entry if I have something to say.
The other advantage that's sort of a disadvantage is that I hear about all sorts of cons at which people who I would love to hear discuss their various advertised panel topics are about to appear. And these things all seem to take place in Boston, or Minneapolis, or central TX, or someplace on the left coast. The only things I know of in the Baltimore/DC radius are anime cons, which are all very well for art and costumes, but I'm not particularly interested in the programming. (Come on people, you know you want to have a SF/F con with real authors in the Baltimore Convention Center...) If there are any closer things, I also don't know how to find out about them. My lack of internet search skills continues to betray me.
( and some interminable reflections on yelling class )
At least all the fabric is indoors, in the highest and still dry corner of the basement. With all my non-resin dolls, who of course care whether they're wet or dry or kept at a decent temperature. Someday I will have a couple of curio cabinets and put them, and the small rodent skulls, and the interesting rocks in unusual wine glasses, and all my other interesting and completely useless stuff on display somewhere. This is the theory, at any rate. Perhaps we can intersperse them with display swords and
grauwulf's award scrolls for balance. That, some bookshelves, some windows, and maybe the turtle tank sounds like good living room decor, yes?In the present (as opposed to hypothetical time) I have drawn up plans for a hutch with bookshelves to sit on the back half of my desk, and if I manage most of this week's goals in good order, I think I'll be ready to go get the hardware store to cut up a sheet of heavy plywood to my specifications, and possibly indulge myself with a box of nice short self-tapping screws. This weekend I'm kind of looking forward to the local event, which will be the first time I've managed to attend an Artisan's Row. (SCA craft day! whee!) I can't really remember the last time I went to an event without intent to fence (or at least dressing so that I could) but I'm not eligible for the novice tourney, and not interested in the triple elim, so we'll see. I guess I should scare up a period project to work on in the next day or two, huh?
In the mean time, I've been populating my friends list with author blogs, which is a strange and fascinating thing. I haven't decided how I feel about fandom, as such; to a certain extent it's a bit creepy, and that's why I've previously read books but not researched or followed authors. There's some benefit to reading what people who write fiction I enjoy write in their journals, though, and getting a bit more familiar with other people's mechanics of writing and with the SF/F fandoms & publishing industry is probably good for me. But then there's the problem of reading what other people write, and starting to feel like you know something about someone who wouldn't know you from a hole in the ground (or might, but might not and you have no way of knowing...), and this confuses me. Not, I think, excessively important, but there's a definite learning curve. I tend to reply to posts when I think someone has said something interesting, but I'm trying to learn to censor the pointless agreement or "yes, that was interesting" impulses in the direction of strangers, while not be scared off too much by 50+ comments already on an entry if I have something to say.
The other advantage that's sort of a disadvantage is that I hear about all sorts of cons at which people who I would love to hear discuss their various advertised panel topics are about to appear. And these things all seem to take place in Boston, or Minneapolis, or central TX, or someplace on the left coast. The only things I know of in the Baltimore/DC radius are anime cons, which are all very well for art and costumes, but I'm not particularly interested in the programming. (Come on people, you know you want to have a SF/F con with real authors in the Baltimore Convention Center...) If there are any closer things, I also don't know how to find out about them. My lack of internet search skills continues to betray me.
( and some interminable reflections on yelling class )