All in all a fairly uneventful day. The puppetry was all on an elevated set, which meant that there was very little for Emily and I to do for the puppeteers. I did a little bit of live hand work, but other than that very little. It’s the sort of day that is fairly excruitating […]
Well, I’m in the midst of a website update, so there’s a chance that you’ll arrive and get frantic error messages that disappear as soon as you click on something. If you see anything that looks broken, don’t fret–unless it is still broken tomorrow.
I updated Esja and Dinner to include photos. Rob and I are off to Kolaportið, the flea market in ReykjavÃk, today and then I’m not sure what we’ll do. We’re talking about going to climb Esja.
Sometime in the last week it started getting dark at night again. Last night I slept without an eye cozy for the first time (excluding my trip to Boston) for months. I still haven’t started seeing stars again, but seeing dark outside our windows keeps surprising me.
We were released for a couple hours in the middle of the day because they had a lot of scenes without puppets to get through. It’s like we turn into kids on a teacher workday when this happens. Everyone frantically tries to make the most of the time and we all run out of the
I’ve just finished reading John Scalzi’s Old Man’s War. I understand why the reviews have compared it to Heinlein, beyond the obvious nods, the book is like Heinlein for grownups. Don’t get me wrong, Heinlein is one of my favorites. Once I discovered him, I devoured all of his books; some I loved, but some
The last two days have been a lot of fun. We’ve had a lot of scenes which required using all of the puppeteers at once. And it’s an elevated set, so there’s no pain. Or at least not much. Steve headed home today. I sent him to the Blue Lagoon to have a facial and
My dad plays one of these. He’s even played with the symphony. On television. Twice.
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After a very long and very satisfying day at work, we all went out to see Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest. Steve wanted to experience the wonder that is intermission in Iceland and to gloat over his daughter that he had gone to opening night. Granted, it’s a week later than in the
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Steve and I went to VÃn og skel for lunch today. I’d been hearing about this restaurant from friends and am pleased to report that the food is very good. I ordered the two course lunch special. Turnip soup, that even my meat-and-potatoes brother liked. Then redfish served over a couscous pilaf, with a delightful
We climbed part way up Esja today. On the way back down, Steve saw a side path and said, “Why don’t we go back down that way?” “Okay. But you know it’ll hit a point where it goes straight down,” I said. Steve got a wicked grin and said, “Great.” So down we went. At
Found this on Lady Churchill’s Rosebud Wristlet, Not a journal. 13 – In 20 Epics there is some rain. We sold all the copies we had at Readercon. It was an epic job of salespersonship by interns, friends, us, others. Finding the epically designed books was a long sordid tale of hidden icons, misdirection, and
Today I took my brother, Emily and Jonathan to Draugasetrið – The Ghost Centre. This is the Rock City version of ghosts. It’s in a tiny, tiny town right by the ocean. The museum itself is housed in this old fish cannery, which still retains ghost odors of fish. In the waiting area, we had
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Today was one of our very rare working Saturdays. I don’t know how they manage, but somehow the working Saturdays only happen when I have guests in from out of town. Like, say, my brother. It’s actually not as annoying as it sounds, because it means that I get Monday off, which is in many
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We went to Footloose, which was quite the experience. The set design was inventive, the choreography was fun but the voices were weak. I think there were four good singers in the cast, and everyone else was flat. I really enjoyed the evening, but did have to adjust the lens that I viewed it with.