Ordinary Day

LAST CALL FOR VOTES on the Jam #60 poll! If you're local or semi-local to the Murkworks and you want in on Jam #60 and you haven't already expressed a vote, jump over to the poll and check in. So far April 30th is in the lead, so if you have a differing opinion, come let me know!

And in the meantime, a pretty decent weekend all around. The one downer was that spazzkat discovered he'd left his DVD sleeve on the plane, so he's lost several of his favorite DVDs as well as a rental copy of Mirrormask from Netflix, which is a bummer. :( We didn't find this out until Friday evening when we were going to watch Mirrormask--doh! We wound up watching another episode out of my Lois and Clark DVDs instead.

Saturday went to some writing--and the finishing of three, count 'em, three chapters in three different books--and then some planning for more writing, and Sunday to going out with Paul and solarbird on a nice little jaunt down to the Lake Forest Park shops and then back along the Burke-Gilman trail. Worked on cleaning up the upstairs bathroom after that, while chatting in IM with the redoubtable mizkit (who said a lot of lovely encouraging things to me about my writing as well as chatting about what's going on with HERS, and getting me all eager to get hold of two more of her books, which are about to come out Soon Soon Soon). Then more planning--since I needed to figure out what was going to happen in the next chapters after the ones I finished--and then a leap back into Lament of the Dove.

We almost went to see Slither, but mamishka turned out to have plans yesterday afternoon. Aww. No Nathan Fillion goodness for me yet. Though I'm still waffling about whether I actually want to see him battling slugs from outer space. I may just have to start working my way through my Firefly DVDs instead. ;)

And last but not least, by way of raise_a_jar and since this is getting publically posted about on the OKP, I have just heard as of this morning that the lovely and talented Alan Doyle is going to be a FATHER. I cannot think of a better man to perpetuate his genes. :D Between this, The McCann and his wife having a baby bodhran player on the way, the lovely and talented Mr. Crowe and his spouse having a second impending kid, and all of my local pregnant friends as well, 2006 really IS shaping up to be Year of the Baby!

Friday evening miles: 2.15
Sunday miles: 2.75
Miles out of Hobbiton: 848.7
Miles out of Rivendell: 390.7
Miles to Lothlórien: 73.3

First and foremost, folks, look at the pretty icon that silme711 made for me! I'd been wanting a Smiling Alan icon with the caption "smile on my face" for a while now--but I'd been having a bit of a problem finding the absolute perfect Alan picture for it. But silme711 beat me to the punch, remembering that such a picture existed in the gallery for My Hand, My Heart. And I pretty much figured that a snippet of "Ordinary Day" + Smiling Alan is pretty much THE perfect icon for me. Plus, this is Alan With Guitar, which is surpassed in excellence only by Alan With Bouzouki. Many many thanks to silme711!

Meanwhile, spazzkat is home! solarbird picked him up from the airport yesterday evening, and it was good to have him back when I got home. :) We fully expect that Polly will be demanding he make up what he owes on the Kitty Head Tax for the next week or so.

Dara has mostly licked the Plague and is up and running again, though she still periodically has some coughs going on. Stupid plague.

And last but not least, for you Browncoats--I bring, from whedonesque, IGN interviews Nathan Fillion: "Great in-depth piece covering his acting process on Slither, his affection for Malcolm Reynolds, and of course, his effort to win the role of Wonder Woman." Inspired by the latter, one poster on that thread helpfully provided this visual aid for how the role might work for Mr. Fillion. Bwahahaha!

Wednesday miles: 4.0
Thursday morning miles: 2.1
Miles out of Hobbiton: 839.6
Miles out of Rivendell: 381.6
Miles to Lothlórien: 82.4