Monday evening: Lollygagging . . .

1. Welcome to count_gunthar and mollyrazor. This oughta be fricking cool.

2. Signups for your first-choice game at Intercon H start at 7 p.m. This was my first LARP convention, and I really loved it. There are a number of folks who regularly read here who are part of this event. My first choice is going to be "Dark Line," and not just because I have a crush on one of the GMs. (waves at zombiedog). ;) Actually, it is a terrific game setting.

3. Internet pumpkin carving! Link from quicktongue.

4. I learned a couple of things this afternoon. The Harry Turtledove alt-Civil War series is commonly known as Timeline-191. I think I knew that. I also learned that it's got a series of incredibly detailed wikipedia pages. It's funny, I have been reading a little Hellboy lately, and it finally occured to me that wikipedia would be a great place for some background. It's a geek thang. Finally, I learned something fairly obvious. In a novel populated by many people, like the Timeline-191 novels, there a small number of "viewpoint" chaacters, who tell the story from their viewpoint.

5. The cats are guarding alethea_eastrid from mammoths.

"But Liam, there ahve been no mammoths in the North Country in 5,000 years."

"See, they do a heckuva job."

6. Slightly twisted song lyric from Heather Dale's "Trelawney:" "Twenty thousand Cornish hens would know the reason why."

Diving into Lake George in December . . .

I was absolutely ecstatic to find out today that not only does Special Olympics New York do a "Polar Bear"-type event, they're doing it Dec. 1 into Lake George. Yay! I do not have to wait for February! Yay!

Those of you who know me know that this will be the fourth straight year that I have done this, and I have raised more than $3,000. Combined with my students in Massachusetts, we have raised between $4,000 and $5,000.

You can donate Online. That makes it really easy.

If you go there, you will also notice there is a link to a team called Glen Linn. That's my new shire. If you can get to the North Country on Dec. 1 for the Polar Plunge and want to dive in with me, please join the team. alethea_eastrid is also going to plunge. Ahhhh, frozen librarians. There will be pictures.

Please help if you can and pass this on to your friends and anyone else you might know.

Thanks!

Liam

This picture makes me very, very happy . . .

Jonathon Papelbon, left, dances with Mark Orrell of the Drookick Murphys after last night's victory over Cleveland. Frontman Ken Casey is clapping at left, and Scruffy Wallace, bagpipes, is at right.

Two of my favorite things!

Together.




[edit: alethea_eastrid says I should point out that while I had to check the web site to get Mark's name, I knew Ken Casey and Scruffy the moment I looked at it. I would not have know that was Papelbon unless the Boston Herald had pointed it out.]

Monday Night: When I should be writing . . .

1. Argh! Sometimes, it ain't easy being Mr. Nice Guy. ;)

*sigh*

2. I just sent the following e-mail message to Charlie Brown, a biologist for the state of Rhode Island . . .

I was reading the old Yankee Magazine article on coyotes in Rhode Island, and your name caught my eye.

Were you my roommate in ZBT back in the last 1970s?

Bill Toscano
AKA "Lou Grant"

Thanks,

Bill

It bounced, but i am gonna find a way to get ahold of him.

3. I did want to make sure everyone knew the Tessie video was here.

4. And the Daily Double? Curt Schilling learns how we talk.