Another frabjous day! Calloo! Callay!
Jun. 1st, 2010 09:51 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
frolijahfanOkay, so it's not as high in the frabjousness scale as paying off the mortgage, but I'll take my feelings of achievement wherever I can scrounge them--they've been few and far between this year. Anyhow, I have finally bestirred myelf and gotten internet access at home. yay!!
My friend E and I went to our first s-f con of the year this past weekend (second overall if you count the Romantic Times Booklover's Convention last month, but that's much more a working event for authors to do publicity and aspiring authors to hook up with agents, editors, etc. Booksellers and librarians are definitely favored guests here--we have special tracks of programming and get many extra goodies...I came home with over 100 free books (not that all of them are anything that I want to read, but I'm sure that I'll find some keepers in there). Had a lovely time sleeping in and filking and shopping in the Dealer's Room and the Art Show. I actually bought a couple of hobbity prints--one of a lane with a sign post with the distances to Waymeet, Tuckborough, Bywater, and Hobbiton and the other a close-up of Bag End's front door knob reflecting the path leading up to the door and part of the yard. Now I just have to find places to hang them. They're much too good to join all my other prints under the spare bed. You can see them at the artist's website--www.jekaufmann.com --Reflections of the Shire and There and back again under "fantasy prints." (someday I'll learn how to link to things). I may have to get the one called The study as well.
My friend E and I went to our first s-f con of the year this past weekend (second overall if you count the Romantic Times Booklover's Convention last month, but that's much more a working event for authors to do publicity and aspiring authors to hook up with agents, editors, etc. Booksellers and librarians are definitely favored guests here--we have special tracks of programming and get many extra goodies...I came home with over 100 free books (not that all of them are anything that I want to read, but I'm sure that I'll find some keepers in there). Had a lovely time sleeping in and filking and shopping in the Dealer's Room and the Art Show. I actually bought a couple of hobbity prints--one of a lane with a sign post with the distances to Waymeet, Tuckborough, Bywater, and Hobbiton and the other a close-up of Bag End's front door knob reflecting the path leading up to the door and part of the yard. Now I just have to find places to hang them. They're much too good to join all my other prints under the spare bed. You can see them at the artist's website--www.jekaufmann.com --Reflections of the Shire and There and back again under "fantasy prints." (someday I'll learn how to link to things). I may have to get the one called The study as well.
