Five Things Make a Post: Sunny October Tuesday edition
Tue, Oct. 7th, 2008 10:05 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
1. Kay Kenyon offers her Top Ten Fiction Tips, and they're excellent, applicable no matter what sort of fiction you write.
2. The second Obama-McCain debate is tonight! I know where I'll be this evening.
3. I've been working on my own steampunky jewelry, but
kajafoglio points out that Heterodyne Designs has got some gorgeous stuff for sale over on Etsy. I won't stop working on mine, but those pieces are awfully tasty. I wanna know where she's getting some of those gears!
4. This is austerity week at Chez
scarlettina. I've balanced the checkbook, paid some bills, and am now working on ways to not spend cash, finding free fun where I can and budgeting for the pricier fun I want in the weeks ahead. I think I've got this week nailed. And you know what I love? I love having credit at bookstores, especially bookstores that sell new as well as used books. Yesterday, using bookstore credit, I picked up copies of David McCullough's "John Adams" and "All the President's Men." Yeah, I'm feeling presidential (but not running!). Wonder why. :-)
5. And a poll. because why not? [Poll #1274212]
ETA: I'm wearing my Halloween socks today, so I have happy feet. (I guess that's six things, isn't it? Ah well. Life is imperfect.)
2. The second Obama-McCain debate is tonight! I know where I'll be this evening.
3. I've been working on my own steampunky jewelry, but
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4. This is austerity week at Chez
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5. And a poll. because why not? [Poll #1274212]
ETA: I'm wearing my Halloween socks today, so I have happy feet. (I guess that's six things, isn't it? Ah well. Life is imperfect.)
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Date: Tue, Oct. 7th, 2008 05:22 pm (UTC)In IRC on Sff.net laughing it up with me?
All the cool kids were there for the VP debate.
http://www.sff.net/people/pff/chatpages/Politics.htm
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Date: Tue, Oct. 7th, 2008 05:28 pm (UTC)I can't wait to see your work!
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Date: Tue, Oct. 7th, 2008 05:32 pm (UTC)I found some beautiful chain (which I don't see your Etsy friend using) at Fusion Beads on Stone Way that has gear-like elements in it. And your friend's work has inspired me to do some wire work, which up until now I hadn't been including. It may actually present the solution to come problems I've been coming up against. Yay!
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Date: Tue, Oct. 7th, 2008 06:12 pm (UTC)We certainly haven't needed heat here yet with the schizophrenic midwest weather. In fact, the AC is still used regularly.
Oh -- I ate a Macintosh apple yesterday and through of you. :)
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Date: Tue, Oct. 7th, 2008 06:12 pm (UTC)Mind you -- we do apples all year -- and I've not even thought about Halloween yet ;>.
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Date: Tue, Oct. 7th, 2008 06:36 pm (UTC)I was just thinking about what I did as a kid for fall (Left Coast Style :>):
- Go back to school
- Collect leaves for Thanksgiving projects
- Buy Macintosh apples
- Start thinking about holidays
Since we were in SF, we already had windbreakers and bathing suits in the trunk (for all weather issues) -- so the whole coat thing wasn't much of an issue :>.no subject
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Date: Tue, Oct. 7th, 2008 06:20 pm (UTC)As for Halloween... I am attempting to put aside my baggage-laden feelings about the holiday and figure out what to do for a costume. I am KJing that night and the events include a costume contest so it would be rather inappropriate of me not to dress up for work!
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Date: Tue, Oct. 7th, 2008 06:27 pm (UTC)I'm sure you'll come up with an excellent costume, baggage put firmly aside. That sort of thing is a lot of fun ... when done for fun.
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Date: Tue, Oct. 7th, 2008 06:42 pm (UTC)I didn't check the last two because I only have a pumpkin when I'm not home from WFC, and likewise costumes...
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Date: Tue, Oct. 7th, 2008 07:08 pm (UTC)No winter linens, but our electric blanket needs replacing.
Did you get my reply about the Friends and Family show? I can mail the ticket out tonight.
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Date: Wed, Oct. 8th, 2008 12:29 am (UTC)I purchased a plush facehugger on eBay for my simple Halloween costume. I might work the chestburster with an old shirt, but that's too much work in too little time.
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Date: Wed, Oct. 8th, 2008 03:30 am (UTC)I have purchased apples recently, but they're just Fujis.
I did take my daughter to buy her Halloween costume ("Buccaneer Beauty"), though, and cut out fabric to make her a custom pirate sack to go with it, and took her and my son to the pumpkin patch to go on the giant inflatable slide on Sunday. And I'm thinking about winter knitting. Does that count?
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Date: Wed, Oct. 8th, 2008 05:17 am (UTC)As
It all counts; just depends upon where you are and how autumn does (or doesn't) descend in your region.