Or something like that. I went to SFWA’s Nebula Weekend in Chicago this past weekend. The turnout was a little less stellar than usual, but that didn’t stop NobleFusion from jumping right into the middle of everything. Attending from NobleFusion were me, Mike Higgins, Cathy Petrini, Barbara Hill, and Lawrence Schoen, as well as various familial units. We toured Argonne National Laboratory and FermiLab, where we witnessed particles being accelerated and antimatter being created. (While…
Family. Can’t live with them. Can’t stash the bodies.
Rough week at work. Too much keyboarding nudged the arthritis into overdrive. Odd new symptom: the tendon that connects base of left thumb to wrist is tender and swollen. Don’t like the looks of this one. Contemplating if lack of dexterity will improve my art. You see, I have these control issues….
This porch is CLEAN! The porch is my sanctuary. Now it’s ready for use. I swept, I scrubbed, I cleaned. Now I can kick back, relax, catch the breeze, and set up my easel again. Yeah!
Have you ever seen Hawkeye Pierce’s monologue about the wonders of the human hand? It’s priceless. And timeless. You can’t really function in this society without working opposable thumbs. You don’t realize their value until they start giving you trouble.
