I spent some time revising one of my novels. It felt really good. I haven’t touched it in a year and I was happy that the story held my attention still. What makes me even happier is that I’m a better writer now. That’s nice. I had a chapter, which I’ve known for a while […]
Today was such a beautiful day. During a break at work, I sat outside with my computer for a while until I had to go in because I was too hot. Can you imagine? In Iceland? True summer weather only happens a couple of days out of the year so everyone tries to take advantage
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Apparently my youngest niece is a big fan of the show. According to my brother: I have recently found out that Emily loves to play Lazytown, and requires someone else to play it with her. One person is Stephanie and one is Sportacus. Basically, Stephanie falls down and cries out for help. Sportacus says “Stephanie’s
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