Tuesday stuff

[yendi]

Elayna's back! Yay! She's taller, tanner, and still capable of getting soy sauce on her shirt with almost no effort whatsoever!

Man, I missed my kid. So good to hug her again, and hear her chatter away.

She showed us her Heelys, and managed to skate about ten feet on them. Just a truly weird shoe concept. But hey, she likes 'em.

Went to a nice meal at Mama Fu's last night. Miss Kid ate well, and I had yummy tofu over egg noodles.

Also had a nice non-kid surprise when I got home yesterday -- a copy of SImon Winchester's latest, A Crack in the Edge of the World: America and the Great California Quake of 1906, from FirstLook Books! Since I'm a huge fan of The Professor and the Madman (the book about the early days of the OED, and the lunatic who chopped off his own penis and also submitted more definitions than anyone else) , I'm very psyched about anything Winchester writes.

Otherwise, not much exciting-wise. Work is still busy and stressful, which means that, although I'm being a Posty McPostit, I'm not exactly being a Ready McReadit*. So, as always, assume I haven't read anything on LJ.

Except that the Discovery landed. I read that. Like forty times in the last two minutes.

*Of course, I'm not Scottish, anyway.

Comments

[mgrasso.livejournal.com]

I used The Professor and the Madman as a resource for a great Vampire game set in a Victorian madhouse. Good stuff. Of course, I'm an unstoppable whore for Victorian roleplaying ideas. :)

[yendi]

Have you read The Victorian Internet?

[mgrasso.livejournal.com]

No, but I've read about it and damn if that idea isn't a huge touchstone for my Victorian Mage game. Where to put your Virtual Adepts during the Gilded Age? On the telegraphs, of course. :)

So I guess I'm wishlisting it, eh? :)

[enderfem.livejournal.com]

The Professor and the Madman was a favorite among my friends a few years back, so much so that about six of us read it at the same time.

There's just something about the idea of receiving and organizing all those slips of paper that gives me chills. In a good way. Because I am a dork.

[yendi]

*nod* I'm the same sort of dork -- it turned out to be exactly how I'd always envisioned the book getting created in the first place.

[zarhooie.livejournal.com]

I have an idea. If you want to know if there's something important happening with me, ask 'Song. I think she's checking my LJ. I am a smart toaster.

[unrepentant.livejournal.com]

How IS Mama Fu's? Been meaning to check out the one that opened down on Mansell....

[yendi]

I like it quite a lot. It's not as good as Noodle, but I think it's better than Doc Chey's. Basically, if you like Moe's, imagine the same overall level of service/quality of food for pan-Asian semi-fast food.

[mycroftca.livejournal.com]

I've read some Winchester works (Outposts comes to mind first), and I can't wait to get to the book you mention.