Bill Stewart @ 186:
Well, there is the Vaccination of a Child panel from the Rivera murals at the DIA: http://www.dia.org/education/rivera/info13.htm
The News Hour with Jim Lehrer had a long interview with Cheney last night. By the end of it I was pleading with my husband to please make the scary bad man go away.
I grew up in Michigan (mostly). My sister still lives there and is employed in one of the many, many, many companies that depend on the Big 3 (she does QA for a parts wholesaler). For her sake--and the sake of all the other people like her--the Big 3 need to stick around. Michigan is already looking at double digit unemployment, I can't imagine how much worse it would be if the Big 3 went under.
Downballot in Delaware where 100% of precincts have reported:
Jack Markell won the governor's race by 72% (very exciting, Jack is a great guy). Matt Denn will be his Lt. Gov. with a healthy margin, despite some really nasty local ads.
Mike Castle was re-elected to the House with 61% of the vote, which is actually encouraging--the Democratic challenger doesn't normally get that close to him.
Joe Biden won his Senate seat, of course. His opponent, Christine O'Donnell, had an opponent at my polling place who was hysterically assuming everyone was voting Obama (not unreasonable, I live in a heavy Democratic & minority district) and was handing out these bizarre leaflets that had anti-UN stuff on them and no indication of party affiliatiion. Also scare stuff about who the governor will appoint to his seat--it will likely be John Carney, who is not an unknown and was actually the Democratic party's choice for governor this year who was upset by Markell in the primary.
Insurance Commissioner is a big deal here, and Karen Weldin Stewart won handily, which I am sure feels like vindication for her--she ran in the Democratic primary 4 years ago and the party opted to back Denn instead of her, so it was good to see her get back up and take another crack at it.
My friend Rebecca Young lost her bid for a seat in the state house, but John Kowalko and Terry Schooley won their re-election bids.
I am sad to report that the Blue Enigma party only got 1773 votes statewide. Their mascot is a turtle. That is all I know about them.
Delaware is such a strange little state, but elections are fun here because you do get to know the candidates, especially if you get involved in the different party clubs.
On preview: Vicki@#53, which governor appoints the successor to Joe Biden is going to depend on when Biden resigns the seat. If he waits until inaguration day, it will be Markell. If it's before then, it will be Ruth Ann Minner, the outgoing governor. Either way, I'm pretty sure it'll be John Carney--the other name floating around is Beau Biden, but he's frankly not experienced enough to jump from Attorney General to Senator whereas Carney has 8 years of Lt. Gov. under his belt. If Biden waits until inauguration day, it will likely have negative implications for the seniority of the seat in the Senate, so I expect he won't wait that long and Ruth Ann will make the decision.
As expected, Delaware has gone for Obama. We're small, but it makes me happy.
I was 8 and living in Virginia Beach. I don't think my dad had retired from the Navy yet--he retired in fall 1983, but I think it was later. We lived under the final air approach for Oceana Naval Air and not too terribly far from the shipyard in Norfolk. We would have been *toast*.
I'm knitting two lace shawls, two lace scarves, a pair of socks, and probably some more stuff that I've forgotten about. I'm spinning a lovely merino/tencel blend on my little spinning wheel and I've got some absolutely scrumptious cormo on my big one and being completely flummoxed by because the staple's so short and I need to do long draw and I am stupid when it comes to long draw. I'm making critters in Spore and having a great deal of fun.
At work, I'm caught up in making a ton of spreadsheets that will be the basis of our budget next year. I don't get to make the final decisions and I don't get input into the decision making process, but I do get to arrange the data in ways that make it easier for the decisions to be made. Which has a peculiar sort of satisfaction to it.
I get to go vote at the church down the street next week. Where they will likely route us through the sanctuary, past tables of leaflets about their ministry--which is of the conservative televangelism flavor. There are outside doors to get into the rooms we vote in, but they don't let us use them. Complaints to my state rep have gone unheeded, but I'll likely complain again this time around for good measure. Probably call the Board of Elections, too.
In Delaware, when you vote, as you go into the voting booth, the pool worker announces to the entire room that you are now voting. It's very exciting.
The first time my husband went to vote here, in the last mid-term elections, we discovered that the geniuses at the DMV hadn't completed his voter registration properly (considering that they also couldn't figure out what constituted proof of address in order to let him get a license, this wasn't surprising). The election workers were extremely good at figuring out the appropriate course of action which was to get a court order to validate his registration (which happened that night, before the polls closed).
I remember Reagan beating Carter in the election and being really, really, really mad about it. I was 5-on-the-cusp-of-6.
Janet Hitchman's appalling biography of Dorothy L. Sayers, Such a Strange Lady.
Also, rather unfortunately, The Lord Peter Wimsey Companion--the second edition in particular. Not so much that the information is bad, but the citations to the LordPeter mailing list aren't done correctly (and the archives aren't available to the public so they're useless to non-members anyhow) and I know of at least one entry that was lifted wholesale from a post to the list and not given proper credit--and I suspect there are more, but don't own a copy to check.
About 15 years ago, the WWN actually printed a story that was true (I knew the people involved, and it really was a weirder-than-life sort of deal). I think that was probably the only time I ever saw anything even remotely true in the WWN.
My husband posted this to his LJ a few weeks ago. I think I got about 2/3 of the way through before I realized what he was up to.
Eric, #263: I've read both of Sanderson's books and I found them to be extremely entertaining and I think he's doing some really interesting things with the genre. I didn't notice any overt LDS-influence in his work, but there is, in my opinion, a definite religious element in his Mistborn series--and I don't see that as a bad thing, per se.
There's death by knitting needle in one of Robertson Davies books--I think The Rebel Angels (I know it's either the first or third Cornish Trilogy book). Into the brain through the nose.
As for spinning silk, in the latest (Winter 2006) issue of Spin Off, there's an article with very nice pictures about how to spin silk hankies/mawatas.
I have to wait until *April* for the reissue of Freedom & Necessity? I may cry. I used to have a paperback that I gave away for some reason lost in the mists of time, picked up a used hardback, sat down to read it and found that there were pages missing/duplicated. Very sad.
It isn't, unless by “little guy” you mean the heirs of the author's ex-spouse's step-grandchildren by her third marriage.
And this is precisely what's happened to the work of Dorothy L. Sayers. The current beneficiary of the Estate (as far as anyone on the LordPeter list has been able to determine) is Sayers's son's half-sister or her children/grandchildren. The rub here is that this half-sister knew about Anthony Fleming (Sayers's son) for years but never did anything about the connection until after his death. Sayers was very clear about not wanting any more Lord Peter books written, the fact that Thrones, Dominations was finished and a second novel was written goes directly counter to her wishes as the creator.
[rant about the sheer awfulness of the Paton-Walsh continuations redacted]
This is why I'm learning to sew. My hips are one size, my natural waist is two sizes smaller, and my bust is right inbetween. I'm also extremely short-waisted and relatively short, so that can also make things difficult. And I like very plain and modest clothing (except when I'm being deliberately immodest, which isn't very often), and that's hard to come by in my size, because I'm not into appliqued kittens or sequins.
So, yes. Learning to sew. And someday soon, I will have a number of pairs of work-appropriate pants that fit me properly. I will say, too, that taking my measurements has been a strangely freeing experience. They are what they are and I need to acknowledge them if I want the pants I'm making to fit. No value judgement required. It's a good feeling, after years of feeling inadequate because of all the stores in the mall, only Lane Bryant has clothes that will fit.
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