Random Raves XLVII: Who wants cookies?

[aimeeandbeatles]

Shhh.

 

[hobbsyoyo]

Where'd you hide the body?

@MaryKB has been parceling it out in the cookies she sends to Norway.

 

[Valka D'Ur]

I was actually a bit sympathetic to the landlord that got sued because they operated in a college town and I saw firsthand how poorly that demographic handles their first 'big boy' apartment. But then again, they had a lot of abusive practices like leaving the black mold in my apartment for two years and justifying that by giving me a dehumidifier. Plus, they had a near monopoly on all the properties in the town and no one made them set up shop in a college town.

Here you would have had the option of involving the Board of Health, to come in and do an inspection. Dwellings can be condemned for black mold.

In my case, they said I could move to another suite and oh-so-generously waived the $250 transfer fee for people who change apartments in the same building. I still had to hire a mover to get the heavy stuff moved (it was a weird conversation, telling the movers that they didn't actually need the van, just themselves, since I was only moving down one floor and one suite over, and it would only involve half a dozen large/heavy pieces of furniture, plus reassembling the bed.

In one of our old apartments, the power was included in the rent. But the landlords got at us for using up so much electricity. I was able to use a meter-thingy to prove it was the fridge (which was ancient and often broke down anyways), which they provided. They did nothing about it. The last straw came when they illegally entered our apartment and turned off my computer (which was in standby mode).

Nobody touches my computer.

Electricity is extra here, but water and heat are included. Nobody can accuse me of overusing my share of the water, since I don't use the built-in dishwasher. So many of the emergency water shutoffs here have resulted from dishwashers leaking/flooding, and I don't want that to happen here.

 

[AdamCrock]

My writing isn't going anywhere and I have no cookies.

There's clearly a connection between having cookies and good writing . In order to have better flow/inspiration - get some cookies !

...and You should also pray to the great cookie in the sky

 

[Broken_Erika]

There's clearly a connection between having cookies and good writing . In order to have better flow/inspiration - get some cookies !

...and You should also pray to the great cookie in the sky

Would that make this a writing muse?

Spoiler :

 

[Ajidica]

Went to an exhibit on Vendel-period Scandinavia at the American Swedish Institute yesterday. Some of the items were pretty neat, like garnet-encrusted sword pommels recovered from ship burials, but I was a little disappointed by the very limited context provided to the objects. For example, there was a Migration period ring-sword which had no description as to why it was different from the other swords exhibited. There could have been a nice description linking it to, say, Beowulf and how Hrothgar was described a 'great ring-giver' and how gifts were understood in Scandinavian society. The exhibit was hosted in a 1880's manor house which was pretty neat to wander around and explore.

Afterwards, ended up going to a sci fi and fantasy used book store where I picked up JG Ballard's The Drowned World, a copy of The Swords Trilogy and one of the Elric novels by Michael Moorcock, Poul Anderson's Hrolf Kraki's Saga, and two of the Fafhrd and the Grey Mouser compilations. While there, I was talking with the owner who noted that Poul Anderson's German/Scandinavian stories like Hrolf Kraki's Saga, The Broken Sword, Three Hearts and Three Lions, and The Man Who Came Early are quite rare on the secondhand market despite being printed quite heavily.

Afterwards, I ended up going to a nearby global food market where I had an outstanding beef tagine with mint tea.

 

[cardgame]

The Snake River canyon is breathtaking.

 

[Synobun]

The Snake River canyon is breathtaking.

 

[aimeeandbeatles]

Rave: I was able to put away my fan. I don't think I'll need it anymore.

 

[Takhisis]

We're all your fans, aimee.

 

[aimeeandbeatles]

Go in the closet then. That's where I put my fans.

 

[Takhisis]

OK, but you have to take me for walkies twice a day or volunteer to take care of the guzunder.

 

[AdamCrock]

Please adopt me too Aimee ! I am Your fan !

 

[Arakhor]

Go in the closet then. That's where I put my fans.

Bad Aimee! It's 2019 - you shouldn't be telling people to enter the closet...

 

[aimeeandbeatles]

Okay, enter the clothes-storage room.

 

[cardgame]

I don't care about reddit gold, but I do care that someone liked something I made enough to gild my comment. Feelsgoodman.jpg

 

[aimeeandbeatles]

I've never even figured out what reddit gold even does. Aside from give you a shiny icon on your post.

Rave: I had a good day of writing. And I have brownies!

 

[Valka D'Ur]

Went to an exhibit on Vendel-period Scandinavia at the American Swedish Institute yesterday. Some of the items were pretty neat, like garnet-encrusted sword pommels recovered from ship burials, but I was a little disappointed by the very limited context provided to the objects. For example, there was a Migration period ring-sword which had no description as to why it was different from the other swords exhibited. There could have been a nice description linking it to, say, Beowulf and how Hrothgar was described a 'great ring-giver' and how gifts were understood in Scandinavian society. The exhibit was hosted in a 1880's manor house which was pretty neat to wander around and explore.

Afterwards, ended up going to a sci fi and fantasy used book store where I picked up JG Ballard's The Drowned World, a copy of The Swords Trilogy and one of the Elric novels by Michael Moorcock, Poul Anderson's Hrolf Kraki's Saga, and two of the Fafhrd and the Grey Mouser compilations. While there, I was talking with the owner who noted that Poul Anderson's German/Scandinavian stories like Hrolf Kraki's Saga, The Broken Sword, Three Hearts and Three Lions, and The Man Who Came Early are quite rare on the secondhand market despite being printed quite heavily.

Afterwards, I ended up going to a nearby global food market where I had an outstanding beef tagine with mint tea.

Poul Anderson used this setting for some of his Time Patrol stories, so if you can track down any of those books (most of the stories are collected in anthology form), you're in for a treat.

I met Poul Anderson and his wife, Karen, at a convention in Calgary back in the early '80s.

Fun fact: Anderson's daughter, Astrid, married SF author Greg Bear. I've met him, too (at that time I was more familiar with his Star Trek tie-in novel).

Go in the closet then. That's where I put my fans.

It's gonna get crowded in there, then. You have a lot of fans.

 

[Takhisis]

I've never even figured out what reddit gold even does. Aside from give you a shiny icon on your post.

Is that not enough? I mean, other people don't have a shiny icon.

Rave: I had a good day of writing. And I have brownies!

*stretches hand cautiously out of aimee's closet and snatches brownie*

 

[aimeeandbeatles]

*stretches hand cautiously out of aimee's closet and snatches brownie*