Ashlyn's Bit of Lunacy

Pick up the nearest book to you. Turn to page 45. The first sentence describes your sex life in 2012.

Astray (adv): 1. Away from the right direction or path. 2. Away from the morally right or good.

LOL! Gotta love dictionaries. Webster's New Riverside Dictionary (paperback) sits next to the computer.

Deanna and Kady and I went to see the new Sherlock Holmes movie today and we're really, really sure that the guy in the gypsy camp who goes along to help them is STICK BOY!!! (For the non-HL fans out there, he's a character in one of the Bronze Age flashbacks in Comes A Horseman/Revelation 6:8)

New years are always fun, they give us an easy moment to start over on projects or achieving goals that we let slide. I'm not going to do any post-mortem on last year or make a bunch of wild resolutions for the new one, I'm just going to say that I'm going to do my best to approach each day with the determination to get something done, whether it's chores to finish fixing up the house, or write some words on a story, or read a book I've been thinking I want to read.

To that end, yesterday I posted a story! First one in a long time, and that's a good feeling. And I put it up on AO3, where I've had an account for a long time, but never posted anything.

http://archiveofourown.org/works/309159

It's Mag7, Escorts AU.

Also, I crossed off another item on one of the punch lists hanging around the house (the lists of things that need to be finished in each room) this morning, which is always a good feeling.

Now I'm going to reward myself by going to the movies *g*

No, not a power failure at my house :) I'm noting with much amusement that the CEO of PG&E (the gas and electric company in Northern California) was sitting in the owner's box at Candlestick Park when the lights went out before and during Monday night's San Francisco 49ers football game.

Me, I'm not surprised. PG&E is bad at its job. The last truly funny (and also sad) thing they did was in 1989, in the big Loma Prieta earthquake. I was working in downtown San Francisco, in fact, in the Federal Reserve building across the street from the PG&E headquarters. So, big earthquake happens, power goes out. Sensible and well maintained buildings (like the Fed) had back-up generators that kicked right on so they had power. Do I need to tell you to guess which building's back-up generator didn't work? Yup. PG&E had no emergency power that night.

I love the Winter Solstice! No, not because it's the first day of Winter, but because it's the shortest amount of daylight for the year. I love it as the days start to get longer (okay, not that they're never not 24 hours, but more daylight).

I also love that it's Duncan MacLeod's birthday! Happy 419th, Duncan! HL was my first online, writing-intensive fandom, and while I'm not active there at the moment, it's always in my heart, and someday... well, I still have some ideas that need to be written.

The other evening, they showed (on Cloo or ION or somewhere) the Psych ep repeat of "Psy vs. Psy". The one with Lou Diamond Phillips in it. You know what would make me a very, very, very happy fangirl? A nice screencap of LDP at the end, shirtless with his shoulder holster on.

Woof! *G*

No spoilers, just a giant O.M.G.!!! and this from an article about this weeks' ep:

"SAMCRO seems to be coming to an end, but knowing that Kurt Sutter has three more seasons planned, I can’t wait to see how he tries to pick up the pieces."

Three more seasons? I don't know if my nerves can take it!!

Article here (contains major spoilers): http://cliqueclack.com/tv/2011/11/22/sons-anarchy-gonna-die/

It seems Harold Camping is at it again. The world is supposed to end tomorrow... But I'm not ready! I have nothing to wear!

I'll be there, anybody else coming??

Escapade 2012, February 24-26, 2012
Crowne Plaza Ventura Beach, Ventura, CA

It's not too early to start planning for a winter vacation in sunny California, right on the beach, with the opportunity to relax and talk fandom, fanfiction and slash with 150 of your closest friends.

If you register now and pay before November 7, 2011, you'll qualify for the reduced rate of $100. After that, the reg fee goes up to its normal rate of $130.

The Escapade website is up and open for business, including links to make your room reservation at convention rates.

Check it out: http://www.escapadecon.net

or if you have questions: info@escapadecon.net

Feel free to share this information far and wide where interested fans might hang out.