Well, that was loads of fun…not.

Been spending a quiet weekend writing, thinking, watching episodes of Burn Notice. About a third of the way through the final 2 parter, poof – no electricity. I peeked outside – seemed the entire complex was dark.

Thank goodness my laptop had enough ambient light to let me find my lantern flashlight thingie. Spent about a half hour in the dark, still watching episodes (yay for long battery life on Nameless!).

Got the lights back briefly, and then once again, nothing for another half hour, 45 minutes. One thing I do know–my mini book light I just bought is awesome. Lets me read my Sony reader without any other light around.

Electricity seems to be back now and I’m crossing my fingers.

BTW, Burn Notice rocks!

Sadly, only one more day of holiday weekend left.

ETA: Oh yeah, about holiday gifting – I’m all about what John Scalzi said earlier today. Really. (including the bit about the car ::g::)

Hope all the US based folks on my f’list are having a wonderful holiday and spending it just the way they want to.

I’ll be at home today, spending time with my characters and making them do things they may not want to do. ::g::

If you’re feasting, enjoy! If you’re just enjoying time off work, revel in it! If this is just a regular day for you, hope it’s a good one!

Thanks to Doris Egan (a.k.a. tightropegirl), here’s some great info about the WGA strike. The suits may be heading to the table (which is a “yay”), but that doesn’t mean it’s over.

So let’s support the writers and send pencils to the moguls. (hey, it’s easy, a buck a box and you can pay with Paypal)

Pencil Link

Let’s hope that the moguls can come to a fair deal for the writers. Writing should *not* be a hand-to-mouth occupation.

To the darling aukestrel – I hope your day has been and continues to be fabulous!!

Much love, chica.

So, World Fantasy Convention = totally cool. I spent 5 days in the presence of the great, near-great and utterly fabulous people and got to meet some of my favorite authors. Couldn’t get any better than this.

I’m going to post photos as soon as I get my iPhone photos uploaded, but in the meantime some con highlights:

behind the cut

Home is a very good place.

Fairly uneventful trip back except for the delay while a mechanic figured out how to shut the forward cargo bay door.

Watched Supernatural: Bedtime Stories, and SGA: Tabula Rasa, but am too tired to give squee.

Con report at some point later…although, I will say it was a blast!!

Bed now. Day off tomorrow. Good times.