we have net. :)

February 3, 2006

We, indeed, have net! We’ve had net since about 2pm, and the entire family has been in the computer room All Day Long.

My personal accomplishment for the day was launching kitsnaps.com, a photo blog site I’ve been talking about doing for years. Well, I got an extremely spiffy camera for Christmas, and I’m going to make a go of doing photography regularly. I’m hoping to post about three pictures a week (though I posted a bunch at once today, so it wouldn’t be hanging around with no content at all). I’ve created an LJ RSS feed for it at kitsnaps, and I fear the first pick-up will spam you, so if you want to add it, you might wanna wait til tomorrow, or something.

Um. I started moving my art stuff over to a deviant art gallery, but the upload process is such a pain in the butt I decided to email the gallery people and see if I could just pay somebody to fix my damned galleries. Again. What else. I made a cemurphy LJ so I can pull it into cemurphy.net and update it more easily. Assuming it doesn’t prove to be a pain to pull it in, anyway, and I suspect I’m going to end up pulling the lj mizkit account over to the mizkit site, because it’d be *really* *nice* to just have all comments in one place.

But that, apparently, is a task for tomorrow, because I should go to bed now.

*laugh* We were planning on going into town tomorrow anyway, to watch movies, but this afternoon Breic called me (with Deirdre’s help) and had a meltdown on the phone. Last weekend he left the elfin archer that came with his wonderful castle that Uncle Shaun got him for Christmas at our house, and apparently he REALLY MISSES it. So he called to ask if I could bring it to him. I said I’d bring it to Grandma and Grandpa’s tomorrow, okay? and he said, “C-c-c-ould you bwing my archew to G-wanpa and G-wanma’s to-o-o-morrow pwease?” I said I could do that, and then he WAAAAILED, “BUUUT I JUUUUST WAAANT IT NOOOOOOW!” It was very very funny. :) Poor little guy. :) So I have to bring the archer to Gwanma and Gwanpa’s tomorrow. :)

Oh dear. This is the second day in a row I haven’t left the house. That can’t be good.

Ok. Bed, and Dublin in the morning.

OH OH OH TALK ABOUT NOT FAIR. The Yale blues bar in Vancouver has *finally* started posting sufficiently in advance their upcoming acts that a person who lives a long way away, say, in Alaska, or, god now forbid, Ireland, could conceivably buy plane tickets for a weekend in Vancouver and a couple Jim Byrnes performances. And wouldn’t you know it but Jim is playing the weekend of March 10th and 11th, the same weekend as the Phoenix Science Fiction Convention in *Dublin*. It is obviously *far* more practical to go to P-Con than VANCOUVER, for heaven’s sake, but this is the first time in literally *years* I’ve had enough advance notice to *get* to a Jim performance! ARGH!

*flings self in a pit*! ARGH!

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  2. HEY CATIE, LOOK AT THIS!

    Subject: 2005 PEARL Finalists

    Here they are at long last, the finalists for 2005 Paranormal Excellence
    Awards for Romantic Literature (PEARL). Whew, we have 3,221 eligible
    members in our five groups! Congratulations to all the writers who were
    nominated and those who made the roster of finalists. We also want to
    thank each reader participating for nominating their best reads of 2005.

    2005 Finalists are:

    BEST FANTASY / MAGICAL
    Goblin Moon by Candace Sams
    Warprize by Elizabeth Vaughan
    Haunted by Kelley Armstrong
    Heart Choice by Robin D. Owens
    Guardian Of Honor by Robin D. Owens

    BEST FUTURISTIC
    Origin In Death by J. D. Robb
    Unmasked by C. J. Barry
    Stargazer by Colby Hodge
    Awaken Me Darkly by Gena Showalter
    Touch Of The White Tiger by Julie Beard
    A Taste Of Crimson by Marjorie M. Liu

    BEST TIME TRAVEL
    Spell Of The Highlander by Karen Marie Moning
    Dreams Of Stardust by Lynn Kurland
    A Breath Of Snow And Ashes by Diana Gabaldon
    A Connecticut Fashionista In King Arthur’s Court by Marianne Mancusi
    Hot & Heavy by Sandra Hill

    BEST SHAPE-SHIFTER
    Sins Of The Night by Sherrilyn Kenyon
    The Dark One by Ronda Thompson
    Dark Lover by J.R. Ward
    Tiger Eye by Marjorie M. Liu
    Dead Walkers: The Protectorate by Angelique Armae

    BEST NOVELLA OR SHORT STORY
    Mating Net by Rowena Cherry
    “Road of Adventure” in What Dreams May Come by Robin D. Owens
    “Banshee Cries” in In Winter Moon by C.E. Murphy
    “Forever Mine” in Beyond The Dark by Linda Winstead Jones
    “A Hero’s Welcome” in The Journey Home by Rebecca York

    BEST ANTHOLOGY
    The Journey Home by Catherine Asaro, Diane Chamberlain, Mary Jo Putney,
    Patricia Rice, Rebecca York
    Highland Vampire by Adrienne Basso, Hannah Howell, Debbie Raleigh
    What Dreams May Come by Sherrilyn Kenyon, Robin D. Owens, Rebecca York
    Beyond The Dark by Linda Winstead Jones, Evelyn Vaughn, Karen Whiddon
    Winter Moon by Mercedes Lackey, Tanith Lee, C.E. Murphy

    BEST SCIENCE FICTION
    The Good, The Bad, And The Undead by Kim Harrison
    Darkscape: Redemption by R. Garland Gray
    Urban Shaman by C.E. Murphy
    Windfall by Rachel Caine
    Every Which Way But Dead by Kim Harrison

    BEST EROTIC
    Toil And Trouble by C.S. Chatterly, M.A. duBarry
    Unleash The Night by Sherrilyn Kenyon
    White Tigress by Jade Lee
    Mercenaries by Angela Knight
    Master Of The Moon by Angela Knight

    BEST NEW AUTHOR
    Marjorie M. Liu
    Elizabeth Vaughan
    Dawn Thompson
    Marianne Mancusi

  3. Congrats on finally getting your internet back! And please don’t fling yourself in a pit. We’d kind of like to keep you around a while longer, you know, ’cause you’re cute and all. ;)

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