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9/05/09-9/11/09
Saturday September 5, 2009 Mnstf at Marian Turner's. This is the most child-friendly home Mnstf meets in; it's a day care center. And this time, several people brought children.
***As I left, I began thinking about my chances of becoming a grandmother.
[Backing up a bit: the term "granny cart" is slightly derogatory. But I've decided that since I'm old enough to be a grandmother (though I don't meet some other requirements), I'm entitled to use the term.]
If there are certain medical advances within the next thirty years, it would become possible. I would be able to live at least a few decades longer, and have my body changed more thoroughly than is now possible with sex changes.
However, pregnancy and childbirth aren't on my list of things I want to try.
===
Tuesday September 8, 2009 "The airport was a thousand years old."
***Before that: Went to Southwest Senior Center to access the Net.
Then a day of running errands. To the Wedge Coop, mostly to get my transit card topped up. Across the street to Steeple People thrift store.
Metro Transit store in Downtown Minneapolis, for new transit schedules.
Minneapolis Central Library. (It's now part of the Hennepin County library system, which doesn't have a central library.)
Took the Hiawatha Line to Midtown Farmers Market on Lake Street. Used another senior nutrition program check.
***Home. Then out again to Sibley Park (a couple of blocks away), to pick up the new Southwest Parks schedule. (The summer schedule ended on August 31st.) The schedule wasn't there yet.
***Back home, I began writing:
"The airport was a thousand years old. It was still called Minneapolis-St. Paul Airport, though the Twin Cities area was now the Republic of Gemini City."
After writing a bit more, I called the library to ask when the airport had been established. Short answer: proposed in 1919. Longer answer: it underwent several name changes; starting with Speedway Airport because it was built on the site of a bankrupt automobile speedway.
So, it would be a thousand years old in 2919. The freeware program Calendar Magic shows the Gregorian calendar up through 9999 AD/CE, and can translate dates into various other calendars (for example, five Hindu calendars if one counts the Indian National Calendar as a Hindu calendar.) It will also give dates of observed days for a particular year (the list is likely to change by 2919), and of religious holidays. (Religious holidays for current religions aren't likely to change much.) It doesn't show Hindu holidays past 2043, though.
Calendar Magic isn't perfect; for a while, Canada Day was listed among days observed in the US. But it's impressively good.
Translation into Martian calendars, and local calendars of extraterrestrial planets, is another matter.
Next step: come up with at least one live character. I've learned that till I have one character, I don't have a story. (A character role isn't enough.)
===
Wednesday September 9, 2009 From the Online Books LiveJournal feed:
http://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/00
Memorial Services Held in the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States, Together With Remarks Presented in Eulogy of Joseph Raymond McCarthy, Late a Senator From Wisconsin (Washington, DC: GPO, 1957), by United States Congress (page images at Hathi Trust)
***Seen from a bus: "Red Lake Band of Chippewa Minneapolis Urban Embassy."
At Waite House, I picked up NAPS (Nutrition Assistance for Seniors) food; and produce from Waite House's twice-monthly distribution.
NAPS commodities are of variable quality. The peanut butter is quite good. The cheese is reduced fat American Cheese; it can be improved by using it in toasted cheese sandwiches, and adding some basil.
I sometimes wonder what American Cheese made in Canada is called.
Or if any generic Canola is made in the US, and if so what it's called. It's made from rapeseed. "Rape oil" might not sell well in groceries.
***On to Southwest Senior Center, to get on the Internet.
***At night, my home Internet connection connected again for at least a few hours. I don't know what makes the difference.
===
Thursday September 10, 2009 I'm one pants size smaller.
Three sizes to go to what's probably my best weight. (Four to my smallest adult waist size; but that was too low.)
***Stopped in at DreamHaven Books.
"Swann's version of the crusading Catholic Church has developed a remorseless secret weapon in its battle against the local pagans: a breed of werewolves that can infiltrate their settlements in apparently innocent human forms, then shapechange into utterly brutal beasts who attack anyone who refuses to accept Christianity...." Faren Miller reviewing S. A. Swann, _Wolfbreed_. Locus September 2009, p. 20.
Perhaps a sequel will have them battling Lutheran werewolves. And a later sequel will have all Christian werewolves united against Marxist werewolves.
Satanist werewolves? No problem; in wolf shape, they're nonviolent vegetarians. (When they're in human form, the memory of this fills them with shame.)
Digression: Defense against secular vampires is relatively easy. Marxist ones can be warded off with a hammer and sickle; Nazi ones with swastikas.
***On to Walker Library. Took out:
Jack Horner and James Gorman, _How To Build a Dinosaur: Extinction doesn't have to be forever_. Not a do-it-yourself manual, but informed speculation on what needs to be done before this would become practical. (As a scientific experiment, of course.)
_The Official International Youth Hostels Guide 2008_. It used to be two volumes, a decade or two ago.
***ACA (Adult Children [of Alcoholic and Dysfunctional Families] Anonymous) meeting.
===
Friday September 11, 2009 9/11 commemorations.
***To Southwest Senior Center, to access the Internet. Small bonus: someone's garden had produced too much garlic.
***On my way home, stopped in at the St. Vincent de Paul store. The free food available was industrial size buckets of hardboiled eggs. At least one person took a full container; her family may get tired of hardboiled eggs.
I passed it up.
Stopped at Aldi supermarket, and then home.
***Reading by Robert Subiaga at DreamHaven. Usually, the audience includes some regulars and some people associated with the author (friends, family, etc.) This time, the only person I recognized was Eric Heideman -- who runs the readings.
Subiaga began with a piece published in Tales of the Unanticipated (edited by Eric Heideman) as a short story; it then became a short film, and is now becoming a novel prologue.
He then read several poems, and finished with a couple of other prose pieces.
Saturday September 5, 2009 Mnstf at Marian Turner's. This is the most child-friendly home Mnstf meets in; it's a day care center. And this time, several people brought children.
***As I left, I began thinking about my chances of becoming a grandmother.
[Backing up a bit: the term "granny cart" is slightly derogatory. But I've decided that since I'm old enough to be a grandmother (though I don't meet some other requirements), I'm entitled to use the term.]
If there are certain medical advances within the next thirty years, it would become possible. I would be able to live at least a few decades longer, and have my body changed more thoroughly than is now possible with sex changes.
However, pregnancy and childbirth aren't on my list of things I want to try.
===
Tuesday September 8, 2009 "The airport was a thousand years old."
***Before that: Went to Southwest Senior Center to access the Net.
Then a day of running errands. To the Wedge Coop, mostly to get my transit card topped up. Across the street to Steeple People thrift store.
Metro Transit store in Downtown Minneapolis, for new transit schedules.
Minneapolis Central Library. (It's now part of the Hennepin County library system, which doesn't have a central library.)
Took the Hiawatha Line to Midtown Farmers Market on Lake Street. Used another senior nutrition program check.
***Home. Then out again to Sibley Park (a couple of blocks away), to pick up the new Southwest Parks schedule. (The summer schedule ended on August 31st.) The schedule wasn't there yet.
***Back home, I began writing:
"The airport was a thousand years old. It was still called Minneapolis-St. Paul Airport, though the Twin Cities area was now the Republic of Gemini City."
After writing a bit more, I called the library to ask when the airport had been established. Short answer: proposed in 1919. Longer answer: it underwent several name changes; starting with Speedway Airport because it was built on the site of a bankrupt automobile speedway.
So, it would be a thousand years old in 2919. The freeware program Calendar Magic shows the Gregorian calendar up through 9999 AD/CE, and can translate dates into various other calendars (for example, five Hindu calendars if one counts the Indian National Calendar as a Hindu calendar.) It will also give dates of observed days for a particular year (the list is likely to change by 2919), and of religious holidays. (Religious holidays for current religions aren't likely to change much.) It doesn't show Hindu holidays past 2043, though.
Calendar Magic isn't perfect; for a while, Canada Day was listed among days observed in the US. But it's impressively good.
Translation into Martian calendars, and local calendars of extraterrestrial planets, is another matter.
Next step: come up with at least one live character. I've learned that till I have one character, I don't have a story. (A character role isn't enough.)
===
Wednesday September 9, 2009 From the Online Books LiveJournal feed:
http://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/00
Memorial Services Held in the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States, Together With Remarks Presented in Eulogy of Joseph Raymond McCarthy, Late a Senator From Wisconsin (Washington, DC: GPO, 1957), by United States Congress (page images at Hathi Trust)
***Seen from a bus: "Red Lake Band of Chippewa Minneapolis Urban Embassy."
At Waite House, I picked up NAPS (Nutrition Assistance for Seniors) food; and produce from Waite House's twice-monthly distribution.
NAPS commodities are of variable quality. The peanut butter is quite good. The cheese is reduced fat American Cheese; it can be improved by using it in toasted cheese sandwiches, and adding some basil.
I sometimes wonder what American Cheese made in Canada is called.
Or if any generic Canola is made in the US, and if so what it's called. It's made from rapeseed. "Rape oil" might not sell well in groceries.
***On to Southwest Senior Center, to get on the Internet.
***At night, my home Internet connection connected again for at least a few hours. I don't know what makes the difference.
===
Thursday September 10, 2009 I'm one pants size smaller.
Three sizes to go to what's probably my best weight. (Four to my smallest adult waist size; but that was too low.)
***Stopped in at DreamHaven Books.
"Swann's version of the crusading Catholic Church has developed a remorseless secret weapon in its battle against the local pagans: a breed of werewolves that can infiltrate their settlements in apparently innocent human forms, then shapechange into utterly brutal beasts who attack anyone who refuses to accept Christianity...." Faren Miller reviewing S. A. Swann, _Wolfbreed_. Locus September 2009, p. 20.
Perhaps a sequel will have them battling Lutheran werewolves. And a later sequel will have all Christian werewolves united against Marxist werewolves.
Satanist werewolves? No problem; in wolf shape, they're nonviolent vegetarians. (When they're in human form, the memory of this fills them with shame.)
Digression: Defense against secular vampires is relatively easy. Marxist ones can be warded off with a hammer and sickle; Nazi ones with swastikas.
***On to Walker Library. Took out:
Jack Horner and James Gorman, _How To Build a Dinosaur: Extinction doesn't have to be forever_. Not a do-it-yourself manual, but informed speculation on what needs to be done before this would become practical. (As a scientific experiment, of course.)
_The Official International Youth Hostels Guide 2008_. It used to be two volumes, a decade or two ago.
***ACA (Adult Children [of Alcoholic and Dysfunctional Families] Anonymous) meeting.
===
Friday September 11, 2009 9/11 commemorations.
***To Southwest Senior Center, to access the Internet. Small bonus: someone's garden had produced too much garlic.
***On my way home, stopped in at the St. Vincent de Paul store. The free food available was industrial size buckets of hardboiled eggs. At least one person took a full container; her family may get tired of hardboiled eggs.
I passed it up.
Stopped at Aldi supermarket, and then home.
***Reading by Robert Subiaga at DreamHaven. Usually, the audience includes some regulars and some people associated with the author (friends, family, etc.) This time, the only person I recognized was Eric Heideman -- who runs the readings.
Subiaga began with a piece published in Tales of the Unanticipated (edited by Eric Heideman) as a short story; it then became a short film, and is now becoming a novel prologue.
He then read several poems, and finished with a couple of other prose pieces.