Well, my sinusitis is nearly over, but it seems I ate something bad for dinner, so I can#t exactly say that I'm feeling better
Random Rants 94 I rant at the thread title and shake my fist menacingly.
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Chukchi Husky
Lone Wolf
I had to go a week and a half without any internet because a storm last Monday knocked out a cable somewhere out in the nearby street.
We're having similar temperatures here, plus wildfires in BC. That means that the wind will blow it in this direction at some point and then I'll have to make a decision as to whether I want to roast from the heat or have breathing problems from the smoke.
September can't get here soon enough, hopefully with an early frost.
September can't get here soon enough, hopefully with an early frost.
It was my Birthday, yesterday.
Broken_Erika
Play with me.
Nobody did a thread on my birthday, either, back in June.
(sorry, I should have remembered that your birthday and the Apollo anniversary coincide
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(sorry, I should have remembered that your birthday and the Apollo anniversary coincide
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I had a date tomorrow. Until she tested positive for Covid yesterday evening . (yes, that is way more inconvenient for her than it is for me, I realize)
Which reminds me, I would need to check back to February, but I think that's exactly the same thing as last time
. The ladies are even from the same country 
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. (yes, that is way more inconvenient for her than it is for me, I realize)Which reminds me, I would need to check back to February, but I think that's exactly the same thing as last time
. The ladies are even from the same country .
This morning I rolled over in bed and strained a neck muscle.
WTH?
Then I stood there, 1h before normally getting up, in the kitchen, holding a bucket of ice cream to my neck.
Later I warmed it, and thought about getting a massage. Google says if it's a sports injury, then I shouldn't do this until 3 days after, but if it's normally messed up after sleeping, then I could directly do it. I guess there is no way to find an answer to this...
And I can't take any pain killer stronger than paracetamol, as all others mess up the stomach, and I am on stomach medication since a half year. Apparently also suppositories cause the same issue, and cutaneous is not strong enough.
So I will see if I can sleep tonight, and have tomorrow a doctors appointment to see the alternatives. Which, according to google, would be codeine, as the next stronger medication.
Great. Opioates because I'm incapable of sleeping like a normal person.
As alternative, I can knock myself out with valium.
Guess I can now choose between the type of addiction.
I feel so old. In the last 6 weeks I had maybe 4 days without any physical complaints.
Synobun
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Once you're healed, incorporating dedicated neck stretches will almost entirely eliminate that problem. Less than a minute of stretches a day and I can't remember the last time I had a strained/pulled muscle in my neck that wasn't from actual improper exertion. I have the health of a termite-infested board of wood, so you can believe me. 
Opiates and Valium for a pulled muscle are nuclear options, IMO.
Opiates and Valium for a pulled muscle are nuclear options, IMO.
warpus
Sommerswerd asked me to change this
I wrote a vignette that might or might not technically count as a rant. It's more like a short story..
The objective was to submit something, anything, involving the words "Necromancer", "The Olympic torch relay" and "Archeological dig". I wrote a short thing about it
I was one of the judges so I couldn't win.. but I feel good about my vignette. I feel it is just the perfect amount of something that feels vaguely like a rant.
The objective was to submit something, anything, involving the words "Necromancer", "The Olympic torch relay" and "Archeological dig". I wrote a short thing about it
I was one of the judges so I couldn't win.. but I feel good about my vignette. I feel it is just the perfect amount of something that feels vaguely like a rant.
Spoiler :
Do you plan to post this anywhere (fanfic site)?
warpus
Sommerswerd asked me to change this
It's only posted on the 16colors archive for now. I threw it together rather quickly, is it worth posting it anywhere else?
The winning entry is worth a look too btw, it's the long one with the olympic rings at the top
I was just curious. There are a lot of details, but there doesn't seem to be much that connects them.
This weekend is Worldcon, in Glasgow. Robert Silverberg is there. So are some of the people in his email group. One person has already spoken to him.
I AM SO JEALOUS!!!!!
I AM SO JEALOUS!!!!!
Narz
keeping it real
So what'd you do?
Yeah sci-fi convention, I saw & even added it to my calendar some months back cause it looked cool, I can't afford to go but it looked like a fun excuse to travel. Maybe someday.
Put it this way: When I used to go to SF conventions in the '80s and '90s, the Guest of Honor was almost always an author, sometimes two authors. There might be other guests, depending on the tracks of programming (one year they scored Dr. Phil Currie, who ran the Royal Tyrrell Museum of Paleontology in Drumheller, Alberta; he did an entire weekend of panels on dinosaurs, fossils, and other paleontology-related topics). The only year when the main GoH wasn't a book author was when JMS (the guy who created Babylon 5; don't ask me to spell his last name because I absolutely don't remember how) was the guest. I wasn't into B5 back then, but decided to try it after attending a panel where he showed the blooper reel.
So over the years I got to meet some rather famous people from early to mid-late 20th century SF authors, some of them twice (C.J. Cherryh, L. Sprague deCamp and his wife, Catherine - who also wrote SF at a time when most women didn't, or at least not under their own names, Crawford Killian, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Silverberg...).
Robert Silverberg is at Worldcon this weekend, and was more than a little miffed that initially he hadn't been booked for any panels. Apparently the people running this have forgotten that some of the authors from a half-century ago are still alive, some are still writing/editing, and still perfectly capable of attending conventions, participating in panel discussions, meeting the fans...
So the most the organizers were willing to do for him is an autograph signing session. Otherwise he's here and there, in the dealers' room and other places. One person in his email group said they'd managed to speak to him, and that he's using a scooter now (understandable, as he's 89).
I don't know how many other authors are there who I've met over the years. Some have died. But honestly, for me science fiction conventions have been about meeting the authors. Actors ... depending on who they are, they might be interesting to talk to, but I've heard some horror stories about how rude some of them can be. That said, someone in the Classic Doctor Who group I'm part of on FB was proclaiming that they didn't like Sylvester McCoy... well, that's their right to like/dislike whomever, but when I met him in 1987 he was gracious and didn't mind signing two photos - one for me and one for a friend who couldn't go to the fan event.
So yeah, I'm jealous of the guys in the email group who get to be there. I'm sure there will be some stories next week when they come back. Silverberg still joins in conversations there, as he doesn't do social media. The last time he was at a convention I was able to go to was in the '80s. I still have most of the costume I wore that year - my interpretation of Majipoori court garb, based on his novel Lord Valentine's Castle.
Narz
keeping it real
Authors to me are way more impressive than actors. You're spilling an entire universe out of your brain vs voicing one character.
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