- 🏚️ Ah, the joys of owning a 30-some year old house. We finally got around to having the bathroom fan replaced. We’d said to each other that we didn’t really think the fan that was there actually did much of anything (other than make noise), and the contractor had the same opinion, describing it as a “toy”. Now we have a new fan that’s larger, quieter, actually moves air, and vents into an insulated vent hose instead of the uninsulated one that was dripping condensation back into the bathroom during last month’s cold snap. Improvements have been made!
- 🕺🏻 Made it out to The Mercury on Saturday night for some stompyboot üntz-üntz gothclubbing time. A slow night, with some faces I recognized but not really anyone I knew, but the music was good and I got some good floor time in, so it was worthwhile.
- ⌚️🥱 Insert my biannual (semiannual? twice a year) rant on the evil that is daylight saving time, how much I hate the time change, and how frustrating it is that Washington voted to get rid of the time change years ago, but did it the wrong damn way, so it did no good. If we could just ditch DST and stay on standard time, this would all be done with.
📸 Photos
From my wife, amused by my lap full of Apples as I took the selfie to go with the blog post about the book I’d just finished.
Decor at the Mercury.
📝 Writing
- 🚀 While I didn’t really write much of it (just the description for my accessibility panel), the schedule for Norwescon 47 went live this week, which was a fair amount of behind-the-scenes processing to convert the provided Excel spreadsheet to the HTML code that goes onto the website. It’s always fun to see this go up!
📚 Reading
- Finished Uncanny Magazine Issue 63, edited by Lynne M. Thomas and Michael Damian Thomas.
- Read Clarkesworld Issue 222, edited by Neil Clarke.
- Started Space Opera by Catherynne M. Valente, Norwescon‘s writer guest of honor next month.
📺 Watching
- 🇺🇸 We did not watch Trump’s State of the Union. Masochism just isn’t my thing.
- We started Alone: Australia, where people with far more outdoor skills than we have get dropped in the middle of the Tasmanian wilderness to survive as long as they can. Because, yes, this is totally something normal people do.
- We’ve also come back to season three of Evil. I kinda want the pop-up books (and love the way what’s essentially an opening sequence gag keeps getting worked into the action of the show).
🎧 Listening
We’re starting to get requests in for the Norwescon dances, which is always a fun way to be introduced to music I don’t know. So far, I’ve added the following to my collection:
- C2C, Tetra
- The Crüxshadows, Dreamcypher
- Tora, TΩRA
🔗 Linking
- April 9 is CSS Naked Day, which I should get in on: “The idea behind CSS Naked Day is to promote web standards. Plain and simple. This includes proper use of HTML, semantic markup, a good hierarchy structure, and of course, a good old play on words. In the words of 2006, it’s time to show off your <body> for what it really is.”
- Mozi: An interesting looking, privacy focused app to coordinate with friends for real-world encounters. An “I’m going to be in [place] at [time]” sort of thing. Currently iOS only, Android maybe in the future.
- Well, bummer: The Bulwer-Lytton Fiction Contest has ended after a 42-year run.
- Priscilla Page, Mad Max: Fury Road: Excellent essay on the best of the Mad Max films. There was so much good analysis and commentary on this film in the months after it came out; diving back into that from a more recent perspective was a pleasure.