Hello, Old Friends

[davidschroth]

I'm finally recovering from the weekend.

I took off all day Friday. I spent a little time helping prepare for the party, and then we went to Mike Ford's memorial service. I didn't know Mike very well at all (although I do remember the first time I met him), but I felt it was important to acknowledge his place and standing in our community.

I thought it was very nice, and very well done.

The St Paul paper in their online edition headlined the story as Crafters of sci-fi attend obscure writer's eulogy. He may have been obscure (I'll admit I'm not totally convinced), but, based on the overall quality of the people he loved, and who loved him in return, I'd rate him as a total success.

I walked home after (mizzlaurajean had an appointment that required her to leave the memorial early, in the Matrix), and thus had some time for quiet introspection on what was probably the best day I'm likely to see for the rest of the year.

When I got home, I decided I'd make my corn casserole and drop it off at the wake. Of course, I hadn't actually seen (or known about) the web page where organization was happening, and so missed the admonishment to supply a list of ingredients. So, I'll list them now:

2 eggs
corn
corn meal
corn oil
baking powder
garlic (I think I overdid the garlic in this particular casserole)
cheese
jalapeno peppers

So we went to the wake, and stayed a while, and then went grocery shopping for the party at some ridiculous hour of the night.

And then home, and bed.

And up the next morning, and help mizzlaurajean prepare.

The party was great fun, from my perspective. Even if I did miss most of the semi-anonymous "poetry" reading into someone's voice mail.

Sunday was a very lazy day. We finally got up, and went over to lsanderson's for a thoroughly delightful brunch with gerisullivan and lsanderson.

And Monday found me back at work during the day.

And when I got home, I found that mizzlaurajean had dragged the boxes of books down from the third floor, and was trying to get them up on the shelves in the new study. And in due time, the hardback SF/fantasy was all shelved.

Of course, I found a number of old friends I haven't seen in quite some time. And discovered that at least one well-loved old friend (Little, Big) had gone missing.

With any luck, I'll actually drag my behind to the Y tonight, and get in a run.

Comments

[jbru.livejournal.com]

You certainly didn't over-do the garlic in the casserole. It was fine and tasty!

[ann-totusek.livejournal.com]

Just your behind? That'd be interesting to watch...one lonely little backside doing laps around the track, as its owner sits by on what little he has left available noodging- "Hey, aren't you done yet? I got stuff left to do tonight, you know! Hurry it up already."

[davidschroth.livejournal.com]

As it happened, I dragged nothing to the Y tonight. Maybe tomorrow night.

And I usually run on the treadmill, anyway....although I should try their track. I'm just not sure how well my knees will handle 52+ turns per mile.

[sraun]

It was a good casserole, and a good Halloween party.

I should try calling to arrange to get my crockette - I could run over sometime in the afternoon any day the rest of the week.

[davidschroth.livejournal.com]

I should try calling to arrange to get my crockette

You could, or you could let me make a great circle trip to drop off your crockette, followed by dropping off buttonlass's whipped cream dispenser at their house.

What's your definition of afternoon?

[daedala.livejournal.com]

I think you should drop off buttonlass's whipped cream dispenser at my house.

Just sayin'.

[buttonlass.livejournal.com]

(Buzz) Thank you for playing tell her what she's won!

Mines not even a really nice one.:) We are in the process of getting it a replacement part so it's better again.

[buttonlass.livejournal.com]

Should you find yourself near the house bearing the whipper that would be nice and you could in fact leave it on our porch. If not I'm sure we'll get it eventually.

Have you finished the whip cream inside yet? I would advise Laura Jean to not try to open it for any cleaning if you have. It's slightly booby trapped cause of the pressure and I'd hate to see it explode all over your kitchen.:)

[sraun]

I'm working until 12N Wednesday & Thursday, and home all day Friday, so for these purposes afternoon starts about 12:30 on Wednesday and Thursday.

Today (Wednesday) could be bad - when I get off work, I run home, and then we run to a Lands' End Inlet to see what they have in stock for bedding, then off to Slumberland to buy a new bed (planning on a Tempurpedic, hoping for a queen size), then maybe back to Lands' End, then CostCo, then a grocery store, then home in time for gamers to show up this evening. Thursday I'll get home about 12:30 and be available all afternoon, Friday I'm home all day. Having the new bed delivered may interfere with any plans I make right now for Thursday afternoon or Friday.

Were you part of the group that discovered it's impossible to get a queen-sized box spring up to my second floor? I vaguely remember that it didn't fail by much - I'm wondering if a queen-sized piece of plywood (or equivalent thickness of whatever) would make it.

[davidschroth.livejournal.com]

You're right, today doesn't sound very promising.

Yes, I was part of the group that discovered that it was impossible to get a queen-sized box spring mattress up to your second floor via the stairs. While it didn't fail by much, it didn't seem to matter - there was no way we could get it to go. And I'll observe that there were a fair number of people in the group who have, IMO, pretty good spatial visualization - there may have been some configuration we didn't try, but I'm skeptical. But a queen-sized piece of plywood - that might work.

[chasophonic.livejournal.com]

My daughter faced the same problem in her house. I don't remember where she got it, but she found that she could get a queen size box spring in two sections like the king size one come.

[sraun]

That was what we found out when we got to Slumberland - they'll cheerfully sell us a split-queen box spring (two pieces), and a replacement frame to go with it. The reason we can't use our existing frame is because it doesn't an extra cross-piece that the split-queen needs to support it.