Zen Master: the August picture for the 2014 CE Murphy photographic calendar. I actually have quite a few good orangutan pictures, almost none of which I’ve posted. But once I’m done with the calendar images I’m going to try to, er, post not-animals for a while, so there may not be any orangutans to show off despite having good pictures of them. :)
It’s been a pretty quoteable morning around here. First my son and I were playing superheroes and he said to me, “Who is in that Iron Man armor?” I said, “Tony Stark, and he, quite reasonably, wanted to know who Tony Stark was. I said, “A philanthropist playboy billionaire genius.” Young Indiana said, “Like me?” Just like you, honey. Just like you. <3 :) Then over on Twitter, Alastair Reynolds (@AquilaRift), whom I like a lot as both a writer and a person, said, for some reason, that he won…
Bongo: the July picture for the 2014 CE Murphy photographic calendar. At Christmas when I gave these calendars out, one of my friends said, in astonishment, “Catie, where have you *been* that you’ve gotten all these amazing pictures of exotic animals?” I was all like, “…the zoo…? :)” and she was like I MUST GO TO THE ZOO! :)
Tortoise: the June picture for the 2014 CE Murphy photographic calendar. Frankly, my favourite thing about doing my own calendar is that I get to choose my favourite picture to put on my birthday month. My mother thought I was totally bonkers when I mentioned that to her, but in general I’ve found that June’s picture in a calendar tends to be kind of crap, so I get a lot of satisfaction from using one I really love. :)
Wrong color, but O.M.G: 1969 Boss 302 found in a barn after 40 years of sitting idle. I can’t run a Kickstarter that fast, can I? I’ll pay you back if I win the lotto, I swear…!