Working Weekend

[rolanni]

Labor Day Weekend here at the Lee-Miller Cat Emporium will be a working weekend. Steve is getting Misfits in shape to go to the printer and crunching around the Korval site (not to be confused with the SRM Publisher site, which will be up and accepting orders all weekend, ahem), trying to bring the look-and-feel into something more, oh, 2009.

I will be going through Saltation, with a view of getting it off my desk and back to Toni on Monday evening, latest.

We're still looking for reviews and for reports of Fledgling sighted in the wild.

So, what're y'all doing this weekend that's fun and interesting?


P.S. I offer today's Stone Soup as an illustration of the Lee Philosophy of Sartorial Elegance.

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[keristor.livejournal.com]

This morning, taken the car in to get the MOT[1] and also have the rear wiper motor replaced, which meant that I had to wait at the dealer (which is of course several miles out of town) while it was done. So I took along a couple of books (you may have heard of them, called 'Barnburner' and 'Gunshy') and almost finished them both while waiting (one page off the end of the latter when he came to tell me the car was ready). And now I want to go and live in Maine, and I keep saying 'ayuh' a lot, and I'm wishing there were more to the series but the author keeps doing other things instead of writing *g*...

[1] UK "Ministry Of Transport" safety verification test, compulsory every year for vehicles over 3 years old. It passed with no trouble (OK, last weekend I did have new tyres all round, costing almost GBP 500; worth it though, the old ones were getting very close to non-legal and starting to feel sloppy on corners, and these ones should last a couple of years).

Me too!

[redpimpernel.livejournal.com]

Oooh! This week I read Barnburner and am halfway through Gunshy, too. I keep laughing over how awfully primative (by comparison) being a computer nerd was in those days. Dial-up...shudder!

But I also went to an Art & Craft Fair in the woods, saw a movie (District 9), and started watching volume 4 of Heroes. Tomorrow, a long walk at the zoo, then a cook out for dinner. Monday another movie, another walk and dinner at Claim Jumpers. And for good measure, another day of vacation Tuesday, just because! Now I'm off to download some of those free Kindle adventure stories that Steve mentioned.

Re: Me too!

[keristor.livejournal.com]

I remember it all too well, including the dilemma of whether to pay out for a new Pentium board (and whether it was actually compatible, and even whether it would actually do basic arithmetic correctly) or stick with the reliable 486. I didn't have "always on" broadband until 2001 when the cable company finally made it to my area.

(And I still often slip by a factor of a thousand -- or actually 1024 -- in the sizes of memory and disk, and say that I want an extra megabyte or two of RAM, because those are the figures which sound 'big' to me.)