Posted By Kathleen David on November 27, 2014
I am thankful for my friends. I have a great group of friends who I love very much. I enjoy interacting with them both in real life and on line.
I am thankful for my pets. We have three cats again since we added Inky to the mix. Three cats does mean one more litter box and more kitty politics but Inky has been more of a joy than a pain and has become part of our family.
I am thankful for a roof over my head, heat, hot water, and electricity. There are too many who don’t have that.
I am thankful for all the travel we have done this year. We have gone some pretty cool places and done some awesome things.
I am thankful I got the turkey when I did. When I went back there were none to be had in the size I need.
I am thankful we didn’t get any snow where we are. Just cold and a bit windy.
I am thankful so many things and I am grateful that I have so many things to be Thankful for.
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Posted By Kathleen David on November 26, 2014
Or the day before because I almost forgot that this week was Thanksgiving. Shows you how much I am paying attention to the calendar.
Tomorrow is the American Holiday of Thanksgiving. We have decided, due to the amount of travel we have done this year and a few other things, to stay home. Finding a turkey that we won’t be eating until Christmas was a challenge but I succeeded in doing so. This morning I am braving the grocery story for the last couple of items I will need to get us to the weekend including milk.
We have weather moving in. There is a Nor’eastern that will basically hit above and behind us so all we are looking at is wet and wind. This will screw up the airports and the highways as everyone scrambles to get where they need to be tomorrow. I think the wind is going to be the bigger problem of the two.
I don’t plan on going anywhere on Friday. I have never really liked crowds and the insanity of that day is just getting worse. I also am going to patronize businesses that aren’t opening on Thursday in the evening. I know all the argument but still we really don’t need this sort of 24 hour retailing. I did have to go into Borders after Thanksgiving dinner more than once but that was to set up for the next day. I got time and a half and it was my choice. And I think that’s the big thing, it was my choice and right now a bunch of people don’t have a choice.
I am grateful I don’t have to be anywhere either Thursday or Friday.
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Posted By Kathleen David on November 25, 2014
So this year I thought I would start working on Dragon Con for next year.
To do so I need to start figuring out what I am going to build and how.
This is my thinking period where I work through my head all the ways I can make something from the absurd to the mundane. No idea is a bad one just not feasible or would make the puppet too expensive. And really who needs Swarovski crystals on a puppet’s dress?
I have sets of puppets that I have worked out in my head. They are a little different than my usual fair but could be an interesting item for the right fan. Again could get a little pricey.
I do try to put my puppets in the realm of the possible price wise but I can not sell my work short. I learned that one rather early on in my career.
A while back I tried to make what seemed to be popular in fandom but the puppets didn’t sing to me the way that they do when it is something I am interested in.
For the puppetslam I am honestly looking at Superwholock. I have all but five puppets I can use for it. The sketch is working its way into my brain. And I do want to build a Mycroft for reasons that surpasseth all understanding. I also want to get my crew needs down this year since I am losing a couple of folks due to life and such.
I will probably have some of this done for Farpoint. And I will start there and go forward.
Right now my creative brain is working through Caroline’s Birthday Party in less than two weeks but the puppets still percolate in the background.
I am grateful for sensible shoes.
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Posted By Kathleen David on November 24, 2014
I discovered a number of years ago that I can either read or write but not both at the same time unless I am taking notes from what I am reading. Let me explain. If I am writing something of the fiction variety, I stop reading any fiction. I don’t do this on purpose but I have found it to be a pattern. Work on a short story and I stop reading the next book in a series I like. I can read non-fiction. When I am writing non-fiction or essays, it doesn’t matter. But the act of creating fiction seems to need its own space without other ‘voices’ in my head.
I have discovered that I am very good at aping others writing styles. I do a fine Dickens, a pretty good Verne, and an awesome Dumas. I know I am good a fan fiction. I have proved that to myself over the years.
Original stuff is much harder and must been done in a literary vacuum or I feel like I start to sound like whatever I am reading. I have ideas for stories. I have lots of ideas but the execution of the idea into something someone else might want to read is tricky. So I write for myself and hope that others enjoy my efforts.
I am working on a piece that I had the idea for about 20 years ago so I think it is high time for me to actually knock it into a real story. Has to do with something that happened at the Atlanta Shakespeare Tavern and a conversation I had with my good friend John Purcell. Still miss you John. He told me that if I didn’t write that story he was going to find me and make me write it because he wanted to read it. I didn’t get to finish it while he was alive so I am making a go of it now for his memory. He’s even a character in it under another name.
I am grateful for the ability to write and amuse others.
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Posted By Kathleen David on November 23, 2014
Last year there was a big to do and a lovely special that is right up there with some of my other favorite episodes.
This year BBC America is not showing a single episode.
But we got a fine year of Doctor Who and I got to visit the actual set in Wales.
That would be the second time I was on the TARDIS set. The first being Peter Davison’s back in the 1980s.
I still love Doctor Who. I love the concept and I can watch just about any episode and enjoy it. Ok there are a couple that I cringe when I watch them but I can do it.
I am really enjoying Peter Capaldi as the Doctor and look forward to the next season.
So today we watched The Day of the Doctor, The Night of the Doctor, The Terror of the Zygons and Deadly Assassin.
I am grateful for everyone who has worked on Doctor Who.
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