Friday evening: Yee-ha!

1. Gorgeous night and nowhere to drive to.

Thank goodness for the cold Stone Brewing Arrogant Bastard waiting for me at home. ;) Mmmmmmm. Mahogany-colored beer.. Mmmmmmm.

2. Video of the day:

"Billy's Got His Beer Goggles On"

"Singing off-pitch, but he knows every word."

3. My e-mail is currently fikakta. Use Liamstliam@gmail.com. I am also bored, bored, bored. I am on AIM and Yahoo. It's on my user profile. Come, chat me up.

4. One of the best evah!




5. From dot_pagan_snark:

A. Periods should come in sets of one, three, and once a cycle. Five is right out.

It's a grammar snark, people.

B. Watching Mickey Mouse in the Sorcerer's Apprentice does not count (toward studying Wicca).

I am there more for the snark than the Wicca. ;)

Questions for five folks . . .

I know this is not the standard way to do it, but I have more than two dozen folks I need to ask questions of.

Feel free to post here, in your own LJ or in private e-mail.

Your call.

To evilnicola:

1. I know your sister’s answer. But what teacher had the most impact on you? (I have a guess).
2. OK, you have graduated, with honors. Bachelor’s, Master’s, teaching certificate. Tell me about your first job and, specifically, what your classroom looks like.
3. There’s a knight on Armor Archive who has an 11-year-old daughter with the same interests you have. Can you write a short “Letter to a young female fighter?”
4. What’s so bad about “Forget Paris?” Really.
5. OK. I am a professional brewer. I am brewing a beer that represents you. What kind of beer? What is it called?

To theresat:

1. Where do you see yourself in 10 years?
2. Why Mike?
3. What did you learn from the weeks after Rock’s death?
4. All-time favorite memory of you and I?
5. Which dead relative (guess who is dead?) would you have liked to have known better and why?

To eveglass:

1. What is your favorite song to sing?
2. Could you live in the U.S. Why/why not?
3. Why is “your” version of Beowulf so popular?
4. How do you cope with what Dan does for a living?
5. What is your favorite book in the Bible? Least favorite? Why?

To elasait:

1. How did being on the BoD change your view of the SCA.
2. What do people not understand about Calontir?
3. All-time favorite moment in the classroom?
4. Who in the SCA (other than Erich) has had the biggest impact on your SCA life?
5. What is your favorite song to hear Erich sing?

Toink_books_punk:

1. What piece of artwork do you feel most intensely about? Why?
2. What do you hope will happen in the SCA when you move to the East?
3. Tell me about Guitar Hero. Why?
4. What’s your take on Artemesia Gentileschi?
5. How did you choose your tattoos? Which one is your favorite? Why?

Questions for five more friends . . .

To baronessgav:

1. How is the mom business?
2. What do Americans not understand about Canada?
3. Is it hard that your busband does not play much?
4. Is it good or bad living so close to your parents and your sister?
5. What is the best book you have ever read? Why?

Tovilla_sorelle:

1. Tell me about being a "Navy wife" who has such an amazing career of her own.
2. Same as above: What are we clueless about?
3. What is like to be a "knight's wife?"
4. Is it good or bad living so close to your parents and your sister? (Sorry, I am fascinated).
5. Favorite airport? Least favorite airport? Why>

To troyfish:

1. How do you separate the many aspects of your life?
2. Here's a million dollars. Design me a videogame.
3. How is fencing in Atlantia different from fencing in the rest of the Known World?
4. OK, we are fighting on the same side. Champions tourney. Last bout. Me vs. Gunther. How do I beat him?
5. Why a gypsy? (Why a duck?)

To: xgreenjudasx:

1. Tell be about falling in love with Abel.
2. Grandfather stories!!!! We want grandfather stories!!!!
3. In real-life, your are a SRS professional who are SRS. Security clearance. Government stuff. How do you keep Baska from showing up?
4. What book had the most impact on your life and why?
5. It's 7 p.m. on the middle Sunday at Pennsic. Abel's off being entertained. Her Highness is going to drink Scotch and smoke cigars? It's you and me, baby. Where are we going, and what are we doing?

To liadan_m:

1. Why me?
2. You can be any character in the Liadverse. Who? Why?
3. I am a freshman in college. I am in Medieval 101. What should I know about my sexy  . . . I mean, my professor?
4. Here's $50,000. Go research. Where? Why?
5. Here's a half a million dollars. Design your house.

Let's make it 15 . . .

To kathrynfontaine:

1. Exactly how did you get addicted to the Middle Ages?
2. What will you be doing at 30?
3. Here's $2,500. Outfit the reign. What period? What clothes?
4. Fifteen-year-old boys are  . . .
5. Why the SCA?

To peregrinning:

1. The East is not like the other kingdoms. How?
2. You can make a map of the Known World in any way you want. Tell me about it.
3. What is the best part about being a dad? The worst? Why?
4. Favorite XKCDC of all time?
5. Favorite Harry Potter character? Least favorite? Why?

To autographedcat:

1. Best filk song evah?
2. Describe your perfect con.
3. It is 8 a.m. on a brilliant, blue San Francisco Saturday morning. You meet cadhla at the Farmers' Market at the pier. What happens now?
4. What science fiction book effected you the most? Why?
5. What would your role have been on Serenity?

To theloriest:

1. Favorite song of Dad's. Why?
2. How will Boston be different this time?
3, What is your theory about why the servers at the Diesel are so grumpy?
4. Best children's book evah?
5. If not Alaska or Boston, where would you live? Why?

To dsrtao:

1. What is your most treasured memory of Yelix?
2. It's 2028. Tell me what your kids are doing?
3. We are going to a desert island. You get three science fiction books/series. Which ones? Why?
4. Describe your perfect home desktop computer.
5. Favorite XKCD evah?