tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-156577472024-03-07T15:39:30.409-08:00NVNC ID VIDES, NVNC NE VIDESa tiny asteroid in the blogiverseohdawnohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01995493308490806364noreply@blogger.comBlogger466125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15657747.post-48948011385405433472012-09-04T23:57:00.000-07:002012-09-04T23:57:17.488-07:00Chicon7
Got home yesterday night from the 70th World Science Fiction Convention, Chicon7. Attended some panels, chatted with some wonderful people, got some books signed and made a few purchases in the dealer's room. Also did some supporting for some bids, saw the opening ceremony and had a great dinner at Lou Malnati's with some of the Fluorospherians of Making Light.
Should have ohdawnohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01995493308490806364noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15657747.post-34169969561391799862012-08-03T17:26:00.000-07:002012-08-03T17:26:23.967-07:00Dawno, Bookseller
I have this dream - owning a bookstore and owning a bead store. Dawno's Beads & Books kind of thing.
Until I win the big Lotto, I have to settle for having a couple of online shops for my jewelry and, as of today, Amazon.com to sell my books. Yep, I'm selling as many of my non-Science Fiction books (mostly first edition hardbacks) on Amazon.
Other than SF, I love procedurals of various ohdawnohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01995493308490806364noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15657747.post-31144888853411759002012-06-23T10:38:00.000-07:002012-06-23T10:38:49.231-07:00My New Back YardI've been moving stuff from my beading workroom to the new house's converted garage studio over the past week. It's slow going because I can only cram so much stuff into the Mustang. On top of that, just getting it from the condo to the car is a hassle since there are two very inconvenient steps leading up to our door, which means I can't just put everything on my trolley inside the condo and ohdawnohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01995493308490806364noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15657747.post-39552586953087800712012-06-16T15:02:00.000-07:002012-06-16T15:02:05.718-07:00More New House StuffMade a couple trips to the new house today to get ready for a little family gathering tomorrow. Bought a portable Coleman propane grill so we can bbq, some lawn-chairs and also a few carloads of stuff to stash in the studio. While I was there I took a couple pictures inside and out front. I'll try to get some good ones of the back tomorrow.
Front of the house
I have roses! (There ohdawnohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01995493308490806364noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15657747.post-65378441880245412132012-06-12T22:16:00.003-07:002012-06-12T22:16:36.390-07:00John Scalzi Stepped on My Toe!I went to the local indie bookstore, Vromans, tonight to see John Scalzi and get a few of his books signed, including his new one Redshirts: A Novel with Three Codas. Photographic evidence follows. Except for evidence of him stepping on my toe. The aisle I sat in was narrow and he was chatting with a friend sitting nearby. When he finished I didn't get my foot back quite fast enough and he ohdawnohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01995493308490806364noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15657747.post-35561987104921972412012-06-05T15:34:00.000-07:002012-06-05T15:34:12.478-07:00Another in My Series of Lazy Person RecipiesYou may recall my Apple Thing post some years back. I think I may have also mentioned other really lazy recipe ideas here like Snack Pack Chocolate Pudding Pie (buy a chocolate crumb pie crust, fill with Snack Pack pudding, top with Cool Whip, voila). So now I am pleased to introduce a new easy, lazy, Food Thing, Chicken Rice Thing.
My husband and I used to enjoy having a chicken and rice dish ohdawnohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01995493308490806364noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15657747.post-46014472090991208922012-06-01T12:56:00.002-07:002012-06-01T12:58:54.071-07:00The New Casa!In a couple weeks my DH and I will be moving to our new home. It was a rather nerve wracking experience buying a house, but I'm so happy to finally have a place to call my own again where I can put up whatever kind of curtains I want (there's a story about the HOA where we currently live behind that) and put up pictures and paint the walls purple if I please.
The house is a smidge under 1,400 ohdawnohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01995493308490806364noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15657747.post-23287598278919719312012-03-06T10:13:00.000-08:002012-03-06T10:13:05.489-08:00Yes, it's been awhile. I am well, just haven't had much to share. Since St. Patrick's day is coming up I thought I'd put up my seasonal banner and say hi.
"Hi!"
Beannachtaí na Féile Pádraig oraibh!
P.S., I will be up in Walnut Creek, CA at the end of the month for FOGcon. If you're attending, please come visit me in the Dealer's room!ohdawnohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01995493308490806364noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15657747.post-68528030894632966722011-12-29T16:07:00.000-08:002011-12-29T16:07:14.107-08:00It's Here! A Girl and Her Fed (Rise Up Swearing) In Print!A while back (2008?) I sponsored some revision pages at A Girl and Her Fed. I got some beautiful art in return. Didn't really think about it much after that.
Today I checked my mail and there was a package for me from the artist...
I tear it open:
Ooh! Woot! It's the print edition of A Girl and Her Fed!
Here's the back cover
Here are the goodies I found inside the ohdawnohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01995493308490806364noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15657747.post-90492557183253163292011-12-04T08:18:00.001-08:002011-12-04T10:10:01.637-08:00Thanksgiving, LosCon and the 'New' Mac
I'm going to begin with the 'new' Mac. My husband bought himself a brand new MacBook Pro and I got his old one (which isn't that old and is quite robust enough for my simple needs). I'm slowly adapting to the things that are different from a PC.
What I'm a bit sad about is the loss of the simple photo editing & previewing features I was accustomed to using on my PC. I'm sure that theohdawnohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01995493308490806364noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15657747.post-19993162293912788102011-11-19T16:47:00.001-08:002011-11-19T17:01:41.150-08:00Come to LosCon38 and See Dawno's Stuff! (Crossposted from my beading blog)
The reason why I don't blog as much is that I'm hunched over my workbench making jewelry. Right now I'm trying to get out as many new pieces for LosCon38 this coming Friday as I can, as well as for a holiday event where my husband works in early December.
The first piece below is an assemblage of copper floral bits on a copper oval with a copper cuff bracelet base. I'm very happy with ohdawnohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01995493308490806364noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15657747.post-31500566180741164552011-09-17T21:19:00.000-07:002011-09-17T21:20:01.248-07:00Random Stuffs
Hmm, new Blogger posting interface - too soon to tell if I hate it or just am uncomfortable with its newness.
If the living room, downstairs bathroom (which I have used for every part of my 'getting ready to go out' routine except showering, so it's not just two guest towels and some dusty dish of soap), the kitchen, the dining room and 90% of my office/bead workshop are packed doesn't that ohdawnohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01995493308490806364noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15657747.post-17419937757617013162011-08-29T19:04:00.000-07:002011-08-29T19:21:05.198-07:00Isn't Packing for a Move Fun??!1??Short answer, "NO."
Longer answer - my office/beading workshop is not an easy thing to pack up. Fiddly little beads - even in bags and bins need to be organized in their boxes just right or they'll end up all over the bottom of the boxes and, perhaps, even leaving a trail from here to there as they're hauled down to L.A.
I still have a lot of miscellaneous stuff to figure out how to pack - ohdawnohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01995493308490806364noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15657747.post-32490482914211322292011-08-24T17:00:00.000-07:002011-08-24T17:00:03.993-07:00Farewell, JelloJello2005 - 2011
Jello was a "grandkittie" who my son adopted and then left with my husband and I when he joined the Army. She and her brother (Pudding) had been guests here when they were very small kittens but they were a good size when they came to live with us permanently, so we missed a lot of the tiny kitten playfulness.
Jello was always rather stand-offish with my husband. She ohdawnohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01995493308490806364noreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15657747.post-10214462570379525102011-08-22T10:57:00.001-07:002011-08-22T11:02:56.631-07:00Home from Renovation (World SF Convention)Back from WorldCon. Had a wonderful time, have posted on LiveJournal and G+ with pictures on my beading blog. Today I need to rest up and catch up. I made my househunting appointment with the relocation specialist down in LA for next week. Hubby is at the vets with Jello who doesn't seem herself today and he's worried.
My son is still in town, will be taking my car to Carmel for the next couple ohdawnohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01995493308490806364noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15657747.post-42140915076208772562011-07-28T07:47:00.001-07:002011-07-28T08:12:47.266-07:00Yesterday was a Great Day!Yesterday was a great day - my son has returned safe from Afghanistan!The 525 BfSG marching inWaiting for speeches and songs to endFinally! Mom gets to hug her soldier!After he'd gotten a chance to rest and shower he, my DIL and I went to dinner and saw Captain America.An aside: I recently switched to Chrome so I could use a Google + extension that's only available on Chrome. When I tried to postohdawnohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01995493308490806364noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15657747.post-10574634313943200562011-07-08T12:24:00.000-07:002011-07-08T12:26:54.916-07:00Dawno Has "Retired"Today was my last day at Cisco. The company offered an "enhanced early retirement" package and I accepted.What's next? Not sure - I know I'm going to take some time off to relax, visit with family, go to World Con in Reno...after that I'm not sure. I will have time for blogging, beading and catching up on my reading, though!ohdawnohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01995493308490806364noreply@blogger.com9tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15657747.post-5816599485791936792010-03-23T06:00:00.000-07:002010-03-23T11:10:10.415-07:00Happy Anniversary, Patrick and Teresa !As part of a surprise anniversary gift to the hosts of the wonderful site Making Light, some of the folk from the fluorosphere put together this tribute. I'm in it at the 28 second mark:ohdawnohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01995493308490806364noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15657747.post-85008320449844295572010-03-17T08:46:00.000-07:002010-03-17T08:53:05.338-07:00Beannacht Lá Fhéile PádraigImage from Wikimedia Commons, by George McFinnegan, Creative Commons Attribution ShareAlike 3.0 License. Official licenseSláinte!ohdawnohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01995493308490806364noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15657747.post-87521692493100497312010-03-09T22:57:00.000-08:002010-03-09T23:03:43.875-08:00Hey, Lookie What I Got!Wow! The kitty video I posted on my other blog, Dawno's Beaded Badge Lanyards was noted as a post of the week by the very talented and lovely Hilary of The Smitten Image. As I commented there, I'm so thrilled! I feel like I just won an Oscar. Here's the icon:I'll be adding it to the sidebar on my beading blog soon - will have to save it somewhere on the web so I use my own bandwidth for it and ohdawnohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01995493308490806364noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15657747.post-10838561050335889892010-02-19T07:53:00.000-08:002010-02-19T08:17:29.778-08:00Sky Mall KittiesI think the kitty moon module litter box is my favorite bit from the song...ETA: Warning! This song has the potential to become your 'earworm' of the day...ohdawnohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01995493308490806364noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15657747.post-79259449756574834662009-11-07T07:56:00.001-08:002009-11-07T08:21:11.400-08:00An Open Letter to My Levitra SpammerDear Anonymous Levitra spammer,You left this comment on a month's old post on my beading blog:Correctly! Goes! 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Latest Scam Spam with extra FBI and Homeland Security Enhancement!I think my favorite part of the email below is the convoluted grammar, odd capitalizations and reference to DHS, "The FBI Seattle Division in conjunction with the United States Department of Homeland Security (DHS), Has screened through our various Monitoring Networks and has been confirmed and notified that the transaction you have with the Financial Institution is Legal and you have the Lawfulohdawnohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01995493308490806364noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15657747.post-73661929276720029482009-11-01T06:00:00.000-08:002009-11-01T06:00:04.445-08:00Welcome Back to Standard TimeI should be happy - it's an extra hour of sleep! Did you remember to set your clocks back last night (well, except for you folk in places where it never changed in the first place)? Good thing they do this over the weekend, I bet a lot of people forget and end up getting to places an hour earlier than they should...and who would want to show up an hour early to work on a Monday? ick.ohdawnohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01995493308490806364noreply@blogger.com2