We survived the recent storm with no visible damage other than a few tiles missing from the neighbour's roof.
MWNN took the opportunity afforded by checking the maintenance needs of the house and set to replace the back door lock with a mortice dead lock. During the three days it took to excavate a big enough hole for the new mechanism, he 'accidentally' watched a scene from AtS - the one in which Wesley and Gunn build the cage to contain Angelus.
MWNN That's your programme. The one with the people with trees growing out of their heads.
Hesadevil No.
That's Star Trek. This is Angel.
MWNN The Spike programme.
Hesadevil ::Sigh:: Sometimes.
MWNN Those blokes are really handy. I thought I was watching a DIY programme - they built that thing out of sturdy bars in no time at all. Is that what they do?
He has a point. Who knew vampires were fully qualified miners and welders? That Watchers could operate heavy machinery while piloting a fishing boat? That quantum physicists could wield a flame thrower as a weapon? And where do they get the resources from? Or the money to finance all these the civil engineering projects?
One day I'll post that entry on the use of names in the Buffyverse - really, I will. When I've battled my way through the final chapters of the WIP.
In the meantime, go check out the provisional
MidiMeet 2007 progamme. It's coming together well and we're almost ready to go live with on line bookings for membership.
Buffy , we all watched Angel, me, him, youngest daughter, ST:TNG all, ST DS9 me and him. Voyager all, Enterprise - no-one.
Family tele is nice, you can laugh at your daughters for dressing up as Deanna Troi or 7of9
Re Writercon, I think the dates will clash for me...sounds very cool
It's as good a reason as any.
Pity about the date clash.
MWNN has a problem with sci-fi and fantasy. He can't 'suspend the disbelief' long enough. So I was really surprised when he not only sat through both episodes of Hogfather, he said he enjoyed them - because they created the Discworld for him.
Approach it as you would one of James's events, we're basically the same fandom.
I'm shy when I attend JM's events, too...although everyone has always been very friendly and welcoming. I'm sure I'll be fine once I get over my initial terror! :D
It annoys me slightly when people say Fred oughtn't to know past physics also - no potential genius can be a genius if they restrict their field. Everyone needs to read connected fields at least, as a not-genius I read information management but I'd be really stupid not to read communication at the same time, plus statistics, IT and random bizarre things that aren't even vaguely connected.
Plus they have had years fighting the good fight, she'd be dead by now if she didn't have a bit more to her than reedy Fred the physicist.
Plus anyway, if it seves the plot for them to have a skill of course they should have it - I didn't see anything way outside the realms of offscreen possibilities.
Oh that got too long. Sorry :)
Re writercon, I wanted to go but the mini-programme isn't my thing. It's cool though, I'll keep the comm friended and then I can see when it all happens :) Good luck, it looks really fun :)
I wanted to go but the mini-programme isn't my thing.
I didn't for one minute think the writercon programme would appeal to you so am not surprised. Besides, you'll be fresh from Jamses' May gig and the new album.
Good luck, it looks really fun.
If you want to increase our luck and help make it a success, would you consider donating any unwanted fandom stuff as prizes for the quiz or raffle. We're aiming to build up a 'float' in our finances to offer something closer to a full Con in 2008.
If there's any graphics programming beyond the basics I'd attend the bigger con, and I'll have a mooch round for prizes but its all JM I'm afraid, not much Spike ;)
That's probably no bad thing. - 'Getout getout getout getout' - translation= teenager here, anything you say or do will be taken as an attack on my right-to-strop.
See if you can mooch for any odds and ends from Halloween Con. You gave me a Buffy magnet for being a
teacher's pethelpfulbusybodygeneraldogsbodygopher on the final day. I'll put that in the pot and a few Buffyverse books I no longer use as reference.I've got a set of Inkworks "Spike The Complete Story" trading cards you can have if you like.
MidiMeet is probably a no, due to holidays which won't be sorted out until way after the booking date for one of the places, so if you want to email me your addy at some point (spikereader@livejournal.com) I can post them off to you. If I do manage to make it to Nottingham I'm sure I'll be able to find something else to try and swap.
"snorfle" Right up there, IMO, with Xander being able to work rocket launchers and remember military codes after a very brief spell of being a "soldier" and Spike tunneling for the Gem of Amara with a few shovels.
Speaking of Willow though it's interesting that Oz was apparently enough of a genius for special recruitment and yet we never had any idea what his specialty areas were -- nor did he ever seem to employ them within the Scoobies.
One of the reasons I find I don't watch so much TV is because the writers get away with so much that an author would be pilloried for. With Buffy, I figured if I could accept the premise, I could accept the rest of it.
I got your package in the mail today.
Me too. It's just that MWNN's not being able to accept the premise that made me look at it with fresh eyes.
I got your package in the mail today.
::Beams::