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featherynscaleI had the evening off yesterday, which allowed me to get most of my God Auction shopping done. It's a very sexay basket for the high bidder this year. So far, I've got a nice bottle of wine, some silver goblets, a gorgeous carved candle, 1/4 lb of Dean and Deluca chocolates (which are the most attractive chocolates ever in the history of chocolate), and a copy of The Gospel of the Flying Spaghetti Monster. I'm hoping to add some music ('cuz it's all about dancing this year), some certificates for ballroom dance lessons, perhaps another book or two, and a nice altar cloth at the very least, and perhaps some deity statuary, if I can find anything good. I'm also open to suggestions, provided that they will fit in the basket. So that's all good.
In the course of the shopping, I also had the best store-made sushi ever (also from Dean and Deluca), and got to sample the chocolates (so I can verify that they are beautifully tasty as well as merely nice to look at).
Then, I came home, and discovered that there is a completely satisfactory spread of videos about Tesla coils on YouTube. I love that. One ends with a title card that reads "If you want to see 8 foot sparks, go to our website." And really, who doesn't want to see 8-foot sparks? I ask you.
I also remembered that I had library books out, including Fragile Things by Neil Gaiman. It's a collection of short stories, some of which are wonderful, and some of which are mediocre. I adore Neil Gaiman, though, because he writes with such a matter-of-fact tone, and can get away with writing things like (in a story that blends Sherlock Holmes and the Cthulhu Mythos) "We called her Victoria, because she did defeat us in battle some seven or eight hundred years ago, and we called her Gloriana, because she was glorious, and we called her 'The Queen' because human mouths were not shaped to pronounce her true name." Delightful! (I wish I could get away with that sort of sentence.)
In the course of the shopping, I also had the best store-made sushi ever (also from Dean and Deluca), and got to sample the chocolates (so I can verify that they are beautifully tasty as well as merely nice to look at).
Then, I came home, and discovered that there is a completely satisfactory spread of videos about Tesla coils on YouTube. I love that. One ends with a title card that reads "If you want to see 8 foot sparks, go to our website." And really, who doesn't want to see 8-foot sparks? I ask you.
I also remembered that I had library books out, including Fragile Things by Neil Gaiman. It's a collection of short stories, some of which are wonderful, and some of which are mediocre. I adore Neil Gaiman, though, because he writes with such a matter-of-fact tone, and can get away with writing things like (in a story that blends Sherlock Holmes and the Cthulhu Mythos) "We called her Victoria, because she did defeat us in battle some seven or eight hundred years ago, and we called her Gloriana, because she was glorious, and we called her 'The Queen' because human mouths were not shaped to pronounce her true name." Delightful! (I wish I could get away with that sort of sentence.)
