Gonzai Gallery

Yes. It's what you think it is. And I'd be glad for the nine bags of rock salt right about now.

So I'm sitting here at work, trying not to think about the clients-from-a-very-significant-federal-agency who are in the next room auditing our billings, and my mind turns to Supernatural and Lost and the parallels that seem to be popping up between them. ( Previous Supernatural Season 5 Musings )  And another one came flying into my mind.

( Vaguely spoilerly if you haven't watched Supernatural this season )

Got the wisecrack out of the way last night. For some more serious (well, sometimes) thoughts, continue.

( Spoilery thoughts esp about Lucifer & Castiel )

Okay, finally getting around to this.

Sunday morning I was in early to the art show, which is only open for pickup (both artists and buyers) and until noon. Plenty of people, both artists and not, really took their time coming to get their stuff, and a couple of artists were bound and determined to just grab it and run. The staff, of course, would prefer they turned in the paperwork showing what didn't sell and sign a confirmation that what was left was returned to them. More interesting, however, were the six pieces of art that were sold, but no one ever came back for them. Three were Sarah Clemens pieces; including the two that the family who practically yanked the things out of my hands Friday night had bought! They paid for the pieces Friday, and never came back for them. Another person did the same thing, paying for a piece and never coming back. The other three pieces? All mine. Three different buyers bid on three different pieces of mine, and none of them paid for them or came back for them. Dammit. My sales this year were half of last year's to start with, and those 3 pieces knocked another 25% off what I made this year. Double dammit. Arseholes. They won't be allowed to bid on art next year but that doesn't help me now.

Anyhoo, once the show actually closed, I did another pass at the dealer's room and picked up a small stuffed ferret. Very cute. Put him in my backpack with just the head peeking out of a pocket. Very adorable, if I dare say so myself. With many recommendations, I decided to get a Christopher Heyerdahl autograph after all. He was very amiable indeed and we discussed Dr Who for a bit. I told him there was a Supernatural panel later, he said he might drop in. Then I went to the Terminator panel, where we had to suffer through what I thought may have been the dumbest person ever to come to a panel. (Panel moderator Lorenzo said later the dummy wasn't the dumbest...but was definitely a top three finalist.) Apparently, nothing this guy saw in the show or the movie registered, but he considered himself an expert on the show. Oy. Then jslinder and I went up to the game room to play Dominion and taught a newbie the game. The game ran into the Supernatural timeslot, so I started playing to end the game instead of win. You got it - I won anyway. I was late to the panel, but in plenty of time to catch Heyerdahl's appearance at the panel. He did the Alistair voice for us :) Much fun. Then it was back to the game room and multiple games of Dominion with a variety of folk, including one guy who was just waiting in the hallway for his wife. We got him playing and he nearly won his first game. I blew out at 7pm, needing dinner and wanting to watch CoE.

And that was Shore Leave weekend.

Watched the finales over the last two nights, and there were some interesting parallels/coinky-dinks. Could almost wonder if the respective show-runners knew what the other show was up to...

( Comparisons )
There's probably more but I'm too tired/headachy to come up with them at the  moment.

Pre coffee again:

( Life )
Bones - wow. The boss has a backstory. Who'da thunk it?

( Supernatural )

Yep. Supernatural finally comes back from winter break and...it doesn't come back. The local (bleep) CW network is running college basketball instead. Supernatural won't air until Saturday night (at 7pm, for those similarly situated.) The problem isn't really so much having to wait until Saturday to see it (yes, I'm downloading it, but it won't finish until sometime tonight) but that I have to not read much of anything on LJ and avoid bulletin board, groups, e-mail lists, etc until I finally see it. Grump.

You can pretend you're a high level government agent, if you just have enough properly labelled telephones.

Thanks Supernatural!


(Seriously, though, I LOVED the wall of phones!)

How do you shut off the water in the shower such that you disconnect the handle from the pipes? My mother managed that yesterday, and now we can neither turn the water off nor on. So no shower today, and we've probably wasted 30+ gallons of water. The second plumber we called (the first hung up on my mother) is supposed to come this morning.

Where's an environmental terrorist when you really need one? I was passed on the road this morning by a shock-yellow Hummer 1, covered with bumper stickers. Among others: 'Liberals Hate America'  and Obama with a line across his face and 'Lynch him, don't elect him.' I wanted to slam my head on the steering wheel. The next car to pass me (another SUV) had but one sticker on it: "Got Hope?"  Not much anymore, thanks.

I've oft heard that Browncoats are the 'scariest fandom'. Beats me why, esp after I've just had a 3 hour dinner with 10 Browncoats representing 5 states and 2 countries to celebrate one guy coming to visit, then heading out to the movies and then the DVD player with most of them. But given the current kerfuffle over in Supernatural fandom, I think those folks might deserve the scariest fandom title. And I say that as Supernatural fan (not fanatic.) I knew about Wincest, but not about the volume of RPS and such.

There is good news today - I'm getting a raise, effective Friday. Woo-hoo!

Got the boss hooked on Day Break, hee hee. Gave him just the first disc last night, he watched one and then had to see all four. And came in this morning looking for the rest, which I happily obliged. 

Missed Lost & Supernatural in favor of watching Dr Who tapes, but I did tape them. After tonight I'll have 15 hours of videotapes to watch. I need a DVR. And a day off. I may get yet another Sunday off though, I haven't been to a baseball game in over a month because every Sunday, IT RAINS. And the one Saturday I had free, IT RAINED. And I thought of playing hooky yesterday and going to Bowie's 11:00am game, but IT RAINED. This Sunday, it's supposed TO RAIN. I'm sensing a pattern here. But I should manage to get in the Towson Spring Festival and my fave band, Hectic Red, before the rain starts tomorrow. Sunday's ball game and house concert/barbeque at a friend's place, however, are endangered.

The only thing I know about the Kentucky Derby this year is that a filly is running, Eight Belles. I know which horse I'm betting on!