Snippets from my life

[cjsmith]

Went to the fabric store the other day. I had run out of white muslin for a project I'm doing. Found some purple and blue paisley fabric that would look good with jeans, which doomed me to about an hour at the patterns table deciding which "basic shirt" would NOT have the problems the green one has. Step one: I am now at least a size sixteen. My, that fabric is pretty though, and at only four bucks a yard I almost don't mind the cost of a new pattern.

Signed last-day paperwork at my old job yesterday, then went out to lunch with the team. Glanced at the check with my unused vacation in it. How the bleep did I wind up with that much vacation? Wow. I guess the only big trips I took were before I'd accrued any vacation, so those were all unpaid time off... Still. Wow.

This morning, scrambled eggs with some onion and bacon cut up and thrown in, with the leftover bacon strips just to eat. MMMMMMMMM. Wish I'd had a bell pepper, and I coulda gone lighter on the onion, but hey, MMMMMMMMM. Filling too. I'm only now getting around to thinking I could use some lunch.

My library is woefully undersupplied with technical books. Also woefully inadequate is their supply of "A Feast for Crows". I suppose that'll keep me focused on technical stuff pretty paisley shirts for a little while. :-)

Comments

[cjsmith.livejournal.com]

s/afraid Martin might/merely waiting for Martin to/ :-)

He does have creative ways for them to die. Killed by WHOM? Killed by WHAT? I never would have guessed some of those.

I want to see Dany's dragons grow up. Dracarys!

[quasigeostrophy.livejournal.com]

One of the most creative (and amusing in a twisted sense) deaths was toward the end of Storms, IIRC.

I want to see Dany's dragons grow up.

Now that you mention it, that's another thing I've been hanging on for as well. :-)

[cjsmith.livejournal.com]

Near the very end? That was one I was waiting for, although I didn't figure out how it would happen. The comment about gold was particularly good.

Give those dragons a few years and Dany to wield them, and the only humans left on her continent will be her bloodriders. Hmm, dragonfire could be a great weapon against the Others, no? (Which reminds me: if the Others are a threat to the world, as has been stated, why does only one continent seem to know or care? Maybe Feast answers this. Or not.)

I seriously wonder what those dragons will do when they hit the Seven Kingdoms. Galvanize everyone that's left against a common foe? :-)

[quasigeostrophy.livejournal.com]

Yeah, that one - the gold comment cracked me up.

I'm not sure the Others are an issue elsewhere in the world - maybe Westeros is like the Eurcentric view of history of earth from a similar period.

As I understand it, Westeros has seen dragons before. Didn't the Targaryens (Aegon) conquer it riding a dragon? I don't see much chance at the moment for galvanization, but that may be what he's working toward with Jon. A Jon and the Watch face-off vs. Dany and her dragons. Or perhaps Jon will need Dany's dragons to finally take care of the Others.

[cjsmith.livejournal.com]

Good point: maybe the Others don't threaten the world, just Westeros, and Westeros calls itself the world.

True, they've seen dragons before. If nothing else there are all those skulls and the history of the Targaryens. I was extrapolating from a comment made when, I think, Dany was considering an army of Unsullied: she'd be coming in from overseas with an army of at best foreigners and at worst slaves, and the people would have no love for that. If she comes in and melts all the lords' castles (or armies) to slag with dragons, she's the enemy of all of 'em. I suppose she wouldn't have to melt them all. Just one would make a good demo.

I like the (Jon + Dany's dragons) vs. (Others + wights) scenario. It's been made very obvious that fire is both necessary and sufficient with the wights, and we could imagine that the name "dragonglass" for obsidian Other-killer stuff is another big hint.

[quasigeostrophy.livejournal.com]

Yeah I thought the obsidian showing up was a big telegraph.