Thanks

[cornerofmadness]

Thanks everyone for the concern. I did call my usual orthopedist (what you all don't damage yourself so much you have an orthopedic surgeon in your roster? Just me?) but I can't get in until the 27th. If I'm still fucked up then I'll go. If I heal up in the next 10 days I'll cancel. It looks crabby today but outside of a grocery run tomorrow, I'll be home for a three day weekend. I'll try to stay off it.

Every year I do jar where I write all the good things that happen to me during the year and I put them in the jar. IN Jan I look them over and remind myself not all was terrible and I have things to be grateful for. I'm very late in sharing them this year but eh nothing good HAS happened to go in the jar so far. Here you go in no particular order:
1. Went inside Newgrange in Ireland, a bucket lister for me
2. Sold an holiday short story Santa's Little Helper
3. Got complimented on how cool Modified and Sacred's cover is and for that matter, I PUBLISHED that SF novella
4. I survived the waist-high flooding in May
5. I got my sabbatical (Yes I did later lose it but someone thought my idea was worthy of study)
6. I sold my holiday poly story Ghosts, Gangsters and Garland
7. I was the Madog Fellow and got to go back to Wales
8. I was on an author's panel at the Steampunk Symposium with Robyn Bennis and Leanne Renee Hieber (two Tor authors)
9. Visited Dublin (another bucket lister)
10 ELD came with me to Ireland and Wales
11. Modified and Sacred got a great cover (as did Santa's Littler Helper and Ghosts, Gangsters and Garland)
12. New Harmony was fun (I went to IN with ELD)
13. Walked through Caer Leon
14. Drank in an Irish pub
15.The steampunk Symposium was a blast
16. Had fun at the Star Trek exhibit in Indianapolis
17 got plenty of wild life pics
18. returned to Bryn Celli ddu
19. Welsh Castles!
20. Mom came thru a bad surgery very well.
21 stayed in a haunted morturary turned inn from the 1400s
22. Bathed in St. Winifred's Holy Well
23. Visited the Hills of Tara
24. Visited a monastic city Glendalough
25. Visited Myddai

There's a bead/gem shop in IN that has little sayings you can get, basically pick them out of the jar and ELD sent me one for Christmas. This is what it said. The quality of human life on this planet is nothing more than the sum total of our daily interactions with others. Each time we help and each time we harm we have a dramatic impact on our world. Because we are human some of our interactions will go wrong and then we will hurt or be hurt or both. It is the nature of being human and it is unavoidable. Forgiveness is the way we set those interactions right. it is the way we mend the social fabric. It is the way we stop our human community from unraveling. Hmmm interesting.

And now for some TV talk. I finally got to watch this week's Homicide Hunter and the victim this time died a pretty horrific death. Long story short, this teenaged girl was abducted from her place of employment, gang raped by the three soldiers who did it (they were on a killing spree) and had her throat slit and dumped on the side of the road. Blind without her glasses she crawled to a trailer park trying to survive but failed. After the whole thing was over and the credits were running, I was rooting around for the controller to delete it when I heard Kelsey Grammar's voice. I looked up and it was the parole proceedings for these killers. The victim was Kelsey's sister. I had no idea. Wow.


And for the Prodigal Son fans, here's an exclusive clip of the opening of this coming Monday's show right here. And an even better article right here.