Day 259: A particular favorite t-shirt of mine. Gold stars to all who get the reference (not that it’s that subtle or obscure, but still…).
🎥 My Fair Lady
My Fair Lady (1964): ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
Henry Higgins is such an ass, Eliza Doolittle is a joy, and the movie, as it always has been, is delightful. It had been quite a while since I’d watched this, and it was a lot of fun revisiting it and refreshing myself on all the little details and moments.
Year 50 Day 258
Day 258: A friend gifted me an LED decorative schematic of the USS Enterprise (swappable between the original and the 1701-D) that didn’t have a power cord. Not only have I found a couple power cords in my stash that will work for it, but I also found that it’s battery powered and, after a little work cleaning out the corrosion, it’s working again. Soon to be brought with me to my work office!
Year 50 Day 257
Day 257: High on my list of reasons I don’t like winter is how badly the cold and dry air wreaks havoc on my skin. My knuckles invariably look like I spend my off hours punching holes in the drywall of our home. Kinda feel like it, too. I’ll be quite glad when things warm up again.
📚 Where Rivers Go to Die by Dilman Dila
5/2024
The second of this year’s Philip K. Dick Award nominees. No review, because I’m the award ceremony coordinator. I’m not remotely involved with selecting nominees or winners, just making sure the ceremony goes as it should, but it’s best to keep my reviews to myself.
📚 Wild Spaces by S.L. Coney
4/2024
The first of this year’s Philip K. Dick Award nominees. No review, because I’m the award ceremony coordinator. I’m not remotely involved with selecting nominees or winners, just making sure the ceremony goes as it should, but it’s best to keep my reviews to myself.
Year 50 Day 256
Day 256: Today was our coldest Norwescon ConCom staff meeting yet! Not only is Seattle having a cold snap and topped out at 24° F outside, but the meeting room was having heat issues and was in the mid-40s at the start, and made it all the way up to 51° by the end! The things we deal with to make sure the convention comes together….
Year 50 Day 255
Day 255: Seattle’s having a bit of a cold snap, and it’s currently just 18° F outside, which is not nearly enough degrees. We need more degrees. Can we have our degrees back, please?
Year 50 Day 254
Day 254: After a week of panic and dire predictions, the first expected Snowpocalypse of 2024 appears to be more of a Snowpoca-whoops. Grey skies in the morning gave way to a gorgeous (though cold and windy) afternoon and evening. Of course, now that I’ve mocked the weather, that will probably be the trigger event, and I’ll wake up tomorrow morning to find myself trapped under a ten-inch blanket of snow….
📚 Child of Two Worlds by Greg Cox
3/2024 – ⭐️⭐️⭐️
Good Pike-era (shortly post-“The Cage”) adventure that has Spock examining his approach to dealing with his mixed heritage while attempting to assist a teenager who as a child had been captured and then raised by Klingons. With a side-order B plot of flu-like virus on the Enterprise, of course. Good insight into Spock that meshes imperfectly, but surprisingly well with the current Strange New Worlds take on his journey.
