Nearly a day before the deadline...
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gerisullivanOnline Hugo ballot submitted: check.
Doctor appointment, banking, grocery, and office supply shopping run complete: check.
A couple dozen other tasks: still to do. Grump.
Plowguy came again Wednesday morning, doing his thing to the 8" of snow that fell Tuesday and early Wednesday. My part of the shoveling was the biggest pain it's been so far this winter. The snow was still powder rather than wet mush, but the powder was more like flour than fluff. Each shovel-full landed with a loud thud. Underneath was a layer of granulated ice, which served all too effectively as a shovel brake. My pusher just plain wouldn't push. I've never thought of snow as something one had to wrestle, but this snow certainly was. Each hold was hard to come by, and those thuds were the reward for each successful throw, just as they'd be in the ring.
Wind gusts of up to 60 mph brought every little crack and opening in the house to my attention. For the first time in the my two not-in-Minnesota winters, I had a severe case of frozen face. as I walked down the driveway from the mailbox. Holding the mail as a wind-break didn't help. Garrison Keillor talks about cold like that. Brutal. Utterly brutal.
Oh, well. If I'd moved to Oregon, I'd be five months into volcanic activity, and you can't count on that to end with the arrival of spring. I was particularly charmed with the last sentence in yesterday's update at the volcano cam site:
Kudos and many public thanks to several nameless Forest Service people are in order! The network connection between the Mount St. Helens VolcanoCam and the rest of the world was restored yesterday afternoon. Mount St. Helens thanked us by offering a happy dance four hours later.
Mountains doing a happy dance. Now there's a vivid mental image for you.
Member of Noreascon 4 and Interaction are eligible to nominate for the Hugo Awards. If you're eligible, and haven't done so yet, please nominate works you think are deserving of the award. Nominations have to be received by midnight GMT on Friday, March 11th, which pretty much leaves nominating online as the only way to do it at this point. The online ballot is here.
Doctor appointment, banking, grocery, and office supply shopping run complete: check.
A couple dozen other tasks: still to do. Grump.
Plowguy came again Wednesday morning, doing his thing to the 8" of snow that fell Tuesday and early Wednesday. My part of the shoveling was the biggest pain it's been so far this winter. The snow was still powder rather than wet mush, but the powder was more like flour than fluff. Each shovel-full landed with a loud thud. Underneath was a layer of granulated ice, which served all too effectively as a shovel brake. My pusher just plain wouldn't push. I've never thought of snow as something one had to wrestle, but this snow certainly was. Each hold was hard to come by, and those thuds were the reward for each successful throw, just as they'd be in the ring.
Wind gusts of up to 60 mph brought every little crack and opening in the house to my attention. For the first time in the my two not-in-Minnesota winters, I had a severe case of frozen face. as I walked down the driveway from the mailbox. Holding the mail as a wind-break didn't help. Garrison Keillor talks about cold like that. Brutal. Utterly brutal.
Oh, well. If I'd moved to Oregon, I'd be five months into volcanic activity, and you can't count on that to end with the arrival of spring. I was particularly charmed with the last sentence in yesterday's update at the volcano cam site:
Kudos and many public thanks to several nameless Forest Service people are in order! The network connection between the Mount St. Helens VolcanoCam and the rest of the world was restored yesterday afternoon. Mount St. Helens thanked us by offering a happy dance four hours later.
Mountains doing a happy dance. Now there's a vivid mental image for you.
Member of Noreascon 4 and Interaction are eligible to nominate for the Hugo Awards. If you're eligible, and haven't done so yet, please nominate works you think are deserving of the award. Nominations have to be received by midnight GMT on Friday, March 11th, which pretty much leaves nominating online as the only way to do it at this point. The online ballot is here.
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Date: 2005-03-11 02:16 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-03-11 07:27 am (UTC)Then there's Peter Weston's With Stars in My Eyes for Best Related Book. Published by NESFA Press. It's the best, most personable fannish history I've read...ever.
When it comes to the Hugos, Steve Stiles is the Arthur Thomson (ATom) of his generation. (ATom never won a Hugo, either.) In my less than humble opinion, Steve's fan art has been Hugo-worthy for the last couple of decades, and probably before that, too. He's eligible again this year, and I'm proudly among his nominators.
Fingers crossed.
There are lots of other very worthy folks and works, too, but these are the three that I most hope to see on the ballot this year.
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Date: 2005-03-11 03:27 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-03-11 07:10 pm (UTC)whats that?
Jayney mack, sounds mad Geri, but sure thats the way over there, I blame those tall feckin building scraping the clouds
anyhow, think warm thoughts ;-)