Happy New Year!
Jan. 1st, 2004 01:05 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
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solarbird and I went to go join kathrynt, llachglin, and spazzkat for laid-back social enjoyment of New Year's Eve, complete with a special guest appearance by jessicac. Q gave me a drink called an apple teeny and I learned that why yes, vodka does make me rather drowsy. We ate cookies, chocolate, and other snackies. We pulled apart assorted party poppers and called dibs on various and sundry items like the world's smallest dispensers of tape. And we had the Ritual Burning of Things That Suck for the year; Dara and I each wound up doing about 4 1/2 pages out of Q's notebook. A good chunk of mine had to do with all the various aspects of breaking my arm, but well hey. And Q showed me her incredibly soft, fuzzy wool and some of the yarn she has made, as well as her spinning wheel and spindle. Which was all pretty cool. I surmised that there must be a great deal of physical and tactile satisfaction out of making yarn and making it well. Q and I also yakked about books, which was fun as well.
At midnight, we watched the fireworks blow off the Space Needle and fired off the little party pistols we all had, though mine didn't fire. Sniff. But it was funny to see the streamers out of the party favors fall all over the TV, especially when Erik discovered that when he turned the TV on and off really fast, the static discharge off the screen made the streamers move.
1. I only made it up to 68,268 words yesterday, which means 225 total words. But well hey, it was New Year's Eve, and I did write at least something!
2.risu has won a game of Nethack. She is taking over the top ten from me on lodestone--clearly, I need to do something about this. ;) In a similar vein, ysabel lamented her failure to get more than a few levels through the game, so I pointed her at the Nethack Beginner's Guide.
3.mizkit is coming to town, and she and I have made lunch plans. She also has been giving me Helpful Writer Tips. She is a good Kit!
4. The snow went away awfully fast. Sigh! More snow please! Except onpoetry_lady's house, since she doesn't want more snow.
5. As mentioned in a comment tojessicac on Tuesday's snow post, it turned out that I did not in fact technically have yesterday off; the team was in fact supposedly working. But I checked in and my boss told me to go ahead and take the day anyway, and put eight hours on my time card. Which was incredibly decent of him, and as I posted before... I consider this a valuable life lesson in why it's good to communicate with your boss when you're confused.
6.solarbird corrected me on a line in a Russell Crowe movie. Specifically, Aubrey's line to Maturin in M&C of "Bosh! Name a shrub after me..." I thought he said "Posh!" Dara pointed out that this makes NO SENSE, and so I verified it on dictionary.com. She's right. Though I am still boggling that she corrected me on a detail in a Russell Crowe movie. ;)
7. I plan to wile away today with random chores, random Nethack, random writing, random futzing with of web pages, and random paying of at least one bill. Well, maybe not entirely random writing, since despite several pleas to do so it is not likely that I will be using the words "badger badger badger badger MUSHROOM MUSHROOM" anywhere in my novel. Let's hear it for quietly ringing in 2004, and let's hope this year doesn't suck.
solarbird and I went to go join kathrynt, llachglin, and spazzkat for laid-back social enjoyment of New Year's Eve, complete with a special guest appearance by jessicac. Q gave me a drink called an apple teeny and I learned that why yes, vodka does make me rather drowsy. We ate cookies, chocolate, and other snackies. We pulled apart assorted party poppers and called dibs on various and sundry items like the world's smallest dispensers of tape. And we had the Ritual Burning of Things That Suck for the year; Dara and I each wound up doing about 4 1/2 pages out of Q's notebook. A good chunk of mine had to do with all the various aspects of breaking my arm, but well hey. And Q showed me her incredibly soft, fuzzy wool and some of the yarn she has made, as well as her spinning wheel and spindle. Which was all pretty cool. I surmised that there must be a great deal of physical and tactile satisfaction out of making yarn and making it well. Q and I also yakked about books, which was fun as well.At midnight, we watched the fireworks blow off the Space Needle and fired off the little party pistols we all had, though mine didn't fire. Sniff. But it was funny to see the streamers out of the party favors fall all over the TV, especially when Erik discovered that when he turned the TV on and off really fast, the static discharge off the screen made the streamers move.
1. I only made it up to 68,268 words yesterday, which means 225 total words. But well hey, it was New Year's Eve, and I did write at least something!
2.
risu has won a game of Nethack. She is taking over the top ten from me on lodestone--clearly, I need to do something about this. ;) In a similar vein, ysabel lamented her failure to get more than a few levels through the game, so I pointed her at the Nethack Beginner's Guide.3.
mizkit is coming to town, and she and I have made lunch plans. She also has been giving me Helpful Writer Tips. She is a good Kit!4. The snow went away awfully fast. Sigh! More snow please! Except on
poetry_lady's house, since she doesn't want more snow.5. As mentioned in a comment to
jessicac on Tuesday's snow post, it turned out that I did not in fact technically have yesterday off; the team was in fact supposedly working. But I checked in and my boss told me to go ahead and take the day anyway, and put eight hours on my time card. Which was incredibly decent of him, and as I posted before... I consider this a valuable life lesson in why it's good to communicate with your boss when you're confused.6.
solarbird corrected me on a line in a Russell Crowe movie. Specifically, Aubrey's line to Maturin in M&C of "Bosh! Name a shrub after me..." I thought he said "Posh!" Dara pointed out that this makes NO SENSE, and so I verified it on dictionary.com. She's right. Though I am still boggling that she corrected me on a detail in a Russell Crowe movie. ;)7. I plan to wile away today with random chores, random Nethack, random writing, random futzing with of web pages, and random paying of at least one bill. Well, maybe not entirely random writing, since despite several pleas to do so it is not likely that I will be using the words "badger badger badger badger MUSHROOM MUSHROOM" anywhere in my novel. Let's hear it for quietly ringing in 2004, and let's hope this year doesn't suck.
