There is too much. I shall sum up.

[rolanni]

Last Wednesday, early, O! early, Steve and I left the Cat Farm in the capable hands of the housesitter, and started out for the Albany-Rensselear train station. The first couple of hours were somewhat of a strain on my nerves, as the driver.  It was raining, slightly.  Just enough, in fact, to encourage the snow to sublimate, creating the ever-popular Snow Fog, which is an interesting and rather pretty weather phenomenon, so long as you don't have to drive in it.

But, drive in it, we did, and eventually arrived at the train station, parked the car, gave our luggage into the hands of the baggage checker and boarded, all in good time, and so off we went to Minneapolis and MarsCon 2017, where we had a terrific time.

Mickie Erickson is a Hero of the Convention.  She provided transportation to and from the train station, schlepped boxes, and made sure we were more or less on a even keel throughout.  This involved not only physical stamina, and a whole lot of patience, but the power of will to get up at 6:00 am on her day off to get us back to the train station for our return trip.

We arrived back at the Cat Farm this past Wednesday, and got back into the social whirl of doctor's appointments, and gym excursions, with sides of doing the laundry and catching up on email.  Yesterday, I got out the manuscript of Neogenesis and am giving it a cold(ish) read.  So far, so good, and a pleasant surprise to this fond author.

Despite the thaw which was underway last week, it turns out that winter is not yet done with us.  The weatherbeans are calling a snowstorm starting Tuesday morning and continuing in to Wednesday.  In the meantime, just to get us ready, the temperatures have taken a nose-dive back into the low teens for daytime and below zero at night.

Variety is good, I guess.

One thing I did discover on our recent trip is that -- the holes in my ears have entirely closed up, which means I can no longer wear earrings.  Not that I was wearing earrings much, obviously.  So I am faced with a dilemma.  Do I get them re-pierced, and if so, do I go with the conservative one-hole-in-each ear, or should I do what All the Cool Kids are Doing and get multiple piercings in one ear -- say three in my right ear, in which I shall set three diamonds, each symbolizing a decade of being a published writer?

Or should I, as Steve suggests, Respect my Immune system and acknowledge that I am so old that I'm cool even without earrings?

First World problems. . .

So!  What did y'all do while I was away?

Oh.  Today's blog title comes from The Princess Bride.

Here's your link.

Comments

[charlie russel (from livejournal.com)]

Welcome back. FWIW, I'm with Steve on this one. You're cool without any additional decoration.

As for what I've been doing while you've been away? Re-reading from Plan B forward via the Audible versions. I figure to have caught up just in time for the official release of The Gathering Edge in Audible format and be ready to dive in. I already read the eARC, but that made me realize there were Things I Didn't Remember.

[mizkit.livejournal.com]

as one sporting 5 earrings, i'm inclined to lean toward multiple piercings... :)

i adopted a cat while you were gone!

[attilathepbnun.livejournal.com]

HURRRAAAAYYYYYY for the cat! And you!!!!!!!

[rolanni.livejournal.com]

I saw that, about the cat! I hope you enjoy each other for many years.

[attilathepbnun.livejournal.com]

The question is: do you want to wear earrings?
Three decades after my holes closed up, I decided I wanted to wear earrings again and got them repierced.
It's kind of fun to wear penguins, roses and pumpkins in my ears ---- though I have to be careful that they're not too dangly, as then the cat thinks they're toys and tries to play with them

[ellenru.livejournal.com]

I'm considering the same - the re-piercing that is, not the multiples. I'm too chicken to have more. Not to mention the whole care thing. Although it would be nice to wear all the earrings I have that haven't seen the light of day for years.

Here in the wilds of Southern Ontario we are back in winter mode after two weeks of early spring. Even with DST I'm ready for warm.

[johninet123.livejournal.com]

i think it is relly relly nice! ths you for your post

[mbarker.livejournal.com]

My wife prefers her ears unpierced, and as a result, I can assure you that it is still possible to get non-pierced earrings (although it can be a struggle) and somewhere we have found a set of converters, basically a clip on with a place for your basic pierced earring to hang out. Not terribly effective, but she did get a set for some earrings. So... our vote is no, you're cool as is, and if you want something on the earlobes, look for clips!

You are Cool no matter what

[ireneha.livejournal.com]

Age isn't a factor.

You are just cool.

This is entirely up to you.

But, there are always ear cuffs which would allow you to avoid the whole piercing thing.

For your existing collection or earrings; there is always turning those ear rings into necklace charms (I had a single dangly triple opal earing that has been converted to necklace) or transferring stones to a new setting (my grandmothers diamonds from a ring, reset into a choker by mom, now put into a single necklace setting).

PS: I have also stopped being able to latch a necklace around my neck. I've gone to magnet closures, and a type that is a over the head & then pull cord to shorten.

[thewol.livejournal.com]

I raked the back yard Saturday and got 14 bags of those *(&(&%$#$!@#$! honey locust beans and assorted leaves hauled off to the dumpster. Some of my muscles are still not very happy with me because of this. I've been knitting things for friends and knitting hats to donate to chemo patients (we have two large cancer centers here). (There's nothing a knitter likes better than an excuse to knit something . . . )

As for earrings, I have a set of very small 18K gold hoops (slightly more than 1 cm in diameter) that I wear 24/7. They are just large enough to clear the bottom of my earlobes. I take them out very, very reluctantly and only because I absolutely have to (like for an MRI or CT or something). If I want to wear things like earrings that match a necklace, or a pretty pair of dangly earings, I slide the ear wires in beside the hoops. The same with studs. Because I wear the hoops all the time, I don't worry about my holes closing up. The hoops are small and unobtrusive, and gold blends with skin tones. Because they're hoops, they lie flat when I sleep on the side of my head and don't poke me like studs do.

That's quite a chairfull of cats you've got there.