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[hawkwing_lb]

The past several days (I've quite lost track) have been a blur of moving furniture, books, books and for a change books, painting walls, varnishing floors, and moving furniture again.

Apart from the varnishing floors, I am proud to say I did it All By Myself. Of course, this works out slower than doing it with help.

In the process, I've nearly forgotten how to type, suffered Internet Withdrawal Syndrome, and got something stuck under the Enter key of this keyboard. That's the news from here. What's the news from the Internets?

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[etumukutenyak.livejournal.com]

News? Um. ::rummages around in the bin:: It's in here some where -- we recycle the paper as fast as I finish reading it. Let's see. Oh! Yes. The sun rose in the east this morning, which is good. The Preakness was run last Saturday, and Barbaro came up lame, but is healing well from surgery. I've got someone else hooked on Naomi Novik, which is excellent. Several Canadians survived a trip to the DC area, and are furthering their plans for world domination. My mother-in-law has just woken up from knee surgery...and this is a holiday weekend we are fast approaching, only I'm on call this weekend.

That's all the news that's fit to share. ;-) Nothing stuck under any keys, and no illegitimate children left at the door.

Oh..it is May 25th, you know. Were you there? ;-)

[hawkwing-lb.livejournal.com]

The 25th, the 25th... No, can't say I was. Holiday weekend? I'd quite lost track, but it is, isn't it? Enjoy. And I hope your mother-in-law is recovering with all appropriate speed.

Naomi Novik, mmm. My uncle's lately been peregrinating about the US - California, Chicago, and Florida, apparently, though I can't say for sure 'cause no one ever tells me anything 'til well after it's happened - and my immortal soul is now in hock, because he's bringing back Throne of Jade, and I'm going to have to figure out how to pay him back. :-)

[etumukutenyak.livejournal.com]

The 25th of May was featured in Terry Pratchett's Night Watch...;-) which is the subject of the icon I used. It's also the anniversary of the day Douglas Adams died suddenly, which is why many people were carrying towels. If you noticed any.

Oooh...lucky you. Because I have yet to see Throne of Jade. You have the best uncle, ever.

[hawkwing-lb.livejournal.com]

Well, I haven't seen it yet, either - he gets back tomorrow (today, now) sometime and ships out again for Paris on Monday. I'm hoping it's real, and that it doesn't stay in his luggage. (Who knows? Maybe he'll take up reading my kind of books, and then I'll never see it.) But yeah, best uncle in the family, for def.

Night Watch. Damn, should have got the reference. How do they rise up..., no? I offer as excuse I last reread it a couple of months after I bought it (which was a couple of days after I realised it existed), so. Long time.

Towels? Douglas Adams? I have fallen into the generation crack, haven't I? I know a leetle bit about Adams - he existed, he wrote The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy - but I've never so much as read more than half a page of anything he's written, much less realised that May 25 was the anniversary of his death.

(And... towels?)

[etumukutenyak.livejournal.com]

Well, I wouldn't have known otherwise, except I read about it at a friend's LJ. Apparently (and paraphrasing muchly), Adams said that a knowledgable hitch-hiker would carry a towel. I have read THHGTTG, and browsed the rest of the trilogy, but I hadn't remembered that part. I refer you to http://www.towelday.kojv.net/ for additional information.

I'd refer you to the Pratchett fan sites as well, but they apparently got into a huge flame war over who was entitled to wear the lilacs, etc. so I won't bother. Silly people.

[hawkwing-lb.livejournal.com]

Pratchett has fan sites?

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Of course Pratchett has fan sites. One in every hundred books sold in the UK is allegedly written by him. But my brain just hiccupped there.*

Pratchett is a brilliant satirist. I wonder, will he ever satirise the fans?


*Of course, I heard him speak in a packed auditorium at Intercon, and waited in a line for an hour to get three books signed, so it shouldn't have hiccupped over the thought that there are online Pratchett fan sites. Still, it did. Silly brain.

[etumukutenyak.livejournal.com]

I hadn't thought much of it myself. It seems..well, dangerous to have a fan site devoted to a satirist, but it takes all kinds, eh? I really wasn't paying attention to the possibilities, and then the 25th of May occurred.

So now you and I are scarred for life. ;-)

[hawkwing-lb.livejournal.com]

Scarred. Yes, definitely. :-)

[etumukutenyak.livejournal.com]

We'll look so dashing and dangerous...wait, that's the boys. We'll just look dangerous. Hm. Works for me. :-)

[hawkwing-lb.livejournal.com]

Dangerous = good. Except when it's not. :-)

[etumukutenyak.livejournal.com]

LOL..that's deep. That's on par with the famous saying "Wherever you go, there you are."

[hawkwing-lb.livejournal.com]

Argh! Now I'm brainwormed!

'Wherever I hang my hat, that's my hooome'

(I don't know the artist, title, or any other lyrics. I don't even know why my brain segued from your saying straight into infinite repeats of that one line. Stupid brain.)

[etumukutenyak.livejournal.com]

That would be Norman Whitfield and Marvin Gaye...;-)

Here:

By the look in your eye I can tell you're gonna cry.
Is it over me?
If it is, save your tears
for I'm not worth it, you see.
For I'm the type of boy who is always on the roam,
wherever I lay my hat that's my home,
I'm telling you that's my home.
You had romance, did you break it by chance
over me?
If it's so I'd like for you to know
that I'm not worth it, you see.
For I'm the type of boy who is always on the roam, mm,
wherever I lay my hat that's my home,
mm, that's my home.
Oh, you keep telling me, you keep telling me I'm your man.
What do I have to do to make you understand?
For I'm the type of guy who gives girl the eye,
everybody knows.
But I love them and I leave them,
break their hearts and deceive them everywhere I go.
Don't you know that I'm the type of man who is always on the roam,
wherever I lay my hat that's my home.
wherever I lay my hat, oh oh, that's my home, mm yeh,
that's my home
and I like it that way.

No, no -- no need to thank me. I do this out of the goodness of my heart for my fellow human beings.

[hawkwing-lb.livejournal.com]

Ah, you're too kind.

*brainwormed*

Do you take pleasure in being this evil? :-)

[etumukutenyak.livejournal.com]

No, not at all. [muffled snicker] It's not a pleasure at all. Of course, if I'm this evil, am I telling the truth? :-D

[hawkwing-lb.livejournal.com]

You tell me. :-)

[etumukutenyak.livejournal.com]

Ah, but that would be telling. :-)