Walking and flying

So yesterday I spent some time with my Dad. We walked through the Zoo, said hello to the panda cub, and then turned off into Rock Creek Park. We ended up on a dirt trail that runs beside the creek, marked by blue-green blazes, with frequent climbs over rocks and up and down steep slopes and over tree roots massive enough to make one feel like a Hobbit. I didn't know that this kind of hiking was possible within walking distance of my parents' house! Yet another reason to love DC.

Yesterday the temperature was in the 70s Fahrenheit (low 20s Celsius). People still have their Christmas lights up! Weird, weird, weird.

I've just changed my flight so that now I'm returning to London on the 24th of January. I'll be glad to get back, but for now I'm really enjoying DC. If only I can work out some way to get access to a sewing machine...

Special bonus link: US Army urges dead to re-enlist. Zombie soldiers? Why the hell not?

Walking and flying

So yesterday I spent some time with my Dad. We walked through the Zoo, said hello to the panda cub, and then turned off into Rock Creek Park. We ended up on a dirt trail that runs beside the creek, marked by blue-green blazes, with frequent climbs over rocks and up and down steep slopes and over tree roots massive enough to make one feel like a Hobbit. I didn't know that this kind of hiking was possible within walking distance of my parents' house! Yet another reason to love DC.

Yesterday the temperature was in the 70s Fahrenheit (low 20s Celsius). People still have their Christmas lights up! Weird, weird, weird.

I've just changed my flight so that now I'm returning to London on the 24th of January. I'll be glad to get back, but for now I'm really enjoying DC. If only I can work out some way to get access to a sewing machine...

Special bonus link: US Army urges dead to re-enlist. Zombie soldiers? Why the hell not?

Fabrications

speedlime found a fabric shop near her place that she refers to as "the fabric TARDIS." I went there for the first time last week, and it is indeed bigger on the inside than the outside. Today, I found a Washington Post article about it! The Post gets everywhere.

(We bought some green sparkly PVC in a nice heavy weight for pvcdiva to make Speedy an underbust out of. They also had silver. Any requests, UK friends?)

This is my second week of not writing for blueyonder any more, and it feels weird. On the plus side: no more allnighters, no more eye strain, no more tendonitis; on the minus side: so long, steady income, it was nice knowin' ya. Oh well.

Fabrications

speedlime found a fabric shop near her place that she refers to as "the fabric TARDIS." I went there for the first time last week, and it is indeed bigger on the inside than the outside. Today, I found a Washington Post article about it! The Post gets everywhere.

(We bought some green sparkly PVC in a nice heavy weight for pvcdiva to make Speedy an underbust out of. They also had silver. Any requests, UK friends?)

This is my second week of not writing for blueyonder any more, and it feels weird. On the plus side: no more allnighters, no more eye strain, no more tendonitis; on the minus side: so long, steady income, it was nice knowin' ya. Oh well.