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lizbee! Here in the past, it's still the twelfth for another eighteen minutes, anyway. ;) Hope your day was excellent!
Have been working today on my the first of my crazy Random Pairing Generator fics. And, as is so often the case, the sheer cracktasticness of the prompt means that the fic itself is dark and terribly serious and full of woe. Also, apocalypse. But it is Barbara/Liz! Surely we can forgive some worlds ending for that pairing.
Hey, new layout! It's probably quite temporary, since I'm already fed up with some of the broken bits of it (most notably its stretchiness and strange narrowness and such). I do like the header, though. Balloons! Clock faces! Little dashed lines and things!
Have rekindled my odd obsession with the board game Monopoly, because. Well. It is strangely amusing to have various characters from fandom playing this game. (Fraser keeps losing because he is too nice, I have decided. And Silver cheats. Also, Donna seems to get Park Place and Boardwalk through dice rolls alone every time.) This new habit is not at all strange, no.
In other news, I'm planning on starting up my coin collection again. Yay, coins! Shininess + history = major draw for me. I will need to rescue them from my parents' house, though, and maybe see if I can persuade my brother to part with his collection for a shiny quarter. Anyone else here indulge in numismatics?
And speaking of history, my Mom came across a brilliant old photo album that my Granddad kept during WWII. There are pictures of planes and things, since he was a pilot, but also some amazing aerial views of cities in India and palaces and such. It's really interesting - he never much talked about that part of his life, so I guess it's that old cliché where you feel you know someone better after they died, etc. But not in the Due South way, with the talkative ghosts following you around and building offices in your closet. Er. Yes. Point being that my Dad's going to digitize this collection of photos. They're really amazing.
Tomorrow? Groceries, further fandoming, exercising the knee, and lots and lots of cleaning. Possibly ice cream, too. And after cleaning comes picspam of the apartment, long overdue!
Five straight days of shifts, starting Saturday. Once more unto the etc.
lizbee! Here in the past, it's still the twelfth for another eighteen minutes, anyway. ;) Hope your day was excellent!Have been working today on my the first of my crazy Random Pairing Generator fics. And, as is so often the case, the sheer cracktasticness of the prompt means that the fic itself is dark and terribly serious and full of woe. Also, apocalypse. But it is Barbara/Liz! Surely we can forgive some worlds ending for that pairing.
Hey, new layout! It's probably quite temporary, since I'm already fed up with some of the broken bits of it (most notably its stretchiness and strange narrowness and such). I do like the header, though. Balloons! Clock faces! Little dashed lines and things!
Have rekindled my odd obsession with the board game Monopoly, because. Well. It is strangely amusing to have various characters from fandom playing this game. (Fraser keeps losing because he is too nice, I have decided. And Silver cheats. Also, Donna seems to get Park Place and Boardwalk through dice rolls alone every time.) This new habit is not at all strange, no.
In other news, I'm planning on starting up my coin collection again. Yay, coins! Shininess + history = major draw for me. I will need to rescue them from my parents' house, though, and maybe see if I can persuade my brother to part with his collection for a shiny quarter. Anyone else here indulge in numismatics?
And speaking of history, my Mom came across a brilliant old photo album that my Granddad kept during WWII. There are pictures of planes and things, since he was a pilot, but also some amazing aerial views of cities in India and palaces and such. It's really interesting - he never much talked about that part of his life, so I guess it's that old cliché where you feel you know someone better after they died, etc. But not in the Due South way, with the talkative ghosts following you around and building offices in your closet. Er. Yes. Point being that my Dad's going to digitize this collection of photos. They're really amazing.
Tomorrow? Groceries, further fandoming, exercising the knee, and lots and lots of cleaning. Possibly ice cream, too. And after cleaning comes picspam of the apartment, long overdue!
Five straight days of shifts, starting Saturday. Once more unto the etc.
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Date: 2008-06-13 06:05 am (UTC)I used to practise numismatics, but it's a terribly long time ago now... Although I still get childishly gleefully over strange coins !
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Date: 2008-06-13 06:29 am (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2008-06-13 02:38 pm (UTC)I love the header you have, but yeah, it's a bit broken in layout, at least for me. Still, cute!
And I love coins; never collected them seriously, but I have a nice, sentimental collection from stuff that was given to me by a family friend and from my own casual keeping of coins as I travelled about, or even varieties of Canadian coins (for some reason I collect the Mountie quarter; I have like almost twenty of them. I have no idea why). The introduction of the Euro made me sad because it meant less coins...
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Date: 2008-06-13 04:55 pm (UTC)OMG YES PLEASE.
The introduction of the Euro made me sad because it meant less coins.
On one of his travels, my uncle brought back a lovely sealed-up package, containing peseta pieces from the last set ever to be minted before the introduction of the Euro. I thanked him and everything, but that package depressed me for the rest of the day.
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Date: 2008-06-13 09:38 pm (UTC)I might have cried upon seeing that. :(
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Date: 2008-06-13 05:02 pm (UTC)*echoes
Oh, that would be great! It would probably also do some good for
(for some reason I collect the Mountie quarter; I have like almost twenty of them. I have no idea why)
Oh, my friend did that! They have a mysterious attraction, they do (...1974? I don't actually remember the year - it's been about ten years since I collected, so very rusty on that). But oh, yes, the Euro made me sad, and I only actually collect Canadian coins! Fewer coins are always a sad thing. (Although there are some very pretty variations on the Euro depending on whereabouts you are? I love that sort of thing.)
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Date: 2008-06-13 09:41 pm (UTC)1973 the Internet tells me...it's been a long while since I looked at my collection. It's mysterious but so addictive.
What sorts of Canadian coins do you have? I used to collect all the provincial ones, and I have a few shiny silver dollars and stuff. I love 'em.
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Date: 2008-06-13 09:47 pm (UTC)What sorts of Canadian coins do you have?
I was all srs bsns for a while, there, and did things like try to get every penny, nickel, dime from 1900 on (which I nearly succeeded at). The quarters were going more slowly, if I recall correctly, because, hey! Those things cost more money. (Especially since before... 1917? Made with lots of silver.) I love that before 1920, pennies were bigger than today's quarters, and nickels used to be smaller than dimes. It's neat!
I did get a couple of special pre-Confederation Haut-Canada and Bas-Canada coins from the 1820s when I went to Montreal, but it's hard to collect any earlier than that with Canada, for the obvious reasons. ;)
I really love the collectors' coins, though, especially the sets they've come out with recently. And silver dollars = love. :D
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Date: 2008-06-13 10:48 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2008-06-13 04:51 pm (UTC)I eagerly anticipate this Barbara/Liz apocalyptic fic you speak of, as well.
I collected coins when I was a kid, because my uncle traveled a lot and knew a lot of other people who traveled a lot, and a coin was a cheap souvenir to bring back that didn't take up too much space. I left off actively collecting a while back, but the collection itself is still up there, in a box on top of my bookshelf.
Those photos sound lovely, especially the ones taken from the air! Any chance you might put a few up here once they're digitized?
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Date: 2008-06-13 05:07 pm (UTC)!! Ooh, I'm excited. :D
I only really collected Canadian coins (though I don't think my brother's interested in keeping his international coin collection, so hello diversifying!) - didn't even dabble in Newfoundland coins at all, though I think there were some shiny Haut Canada/Bas Canada ones I got in Montreal. Very spiffy!
(And that may have been my gift for some people I forgot to buy for in Japan. "Here, have a 1 yen piece!" "Oh, yay! How much is that in dollars?" *mutters*"Bit less than a penny." Ahem. But pretty!)
Any chance you might put a few up here once they're digitized?
Oh, definitely! I'll have to see if Dad has been working on it at all since I saw him last - it's entirely possible the book is still sitting on the kitchen table, hee. I shall pester him next week!