luscious_purple: Paint Branch UU Chalice (Paint Branch Chalice)
It's just after midnight, so that day that was the 30th anniversary of the Challenger disaster is over now. Of course it weighed heavily on my mind.

I believe I've written about it on LJ in past years. I just said this on FB:

That morning I was between jobs (story of my life) and watching the live coverage on the Manchester (NH) ABC affiliate, which sometimes came in better for me than the Boston station, which wasn't covering the launch anyway. When I realized what had happened, ice went through my veins. Nine months earlier, I had watched a Challenger launch in person from the press area at KSC, and I had decided that Challenger would always be my favorite shuttle. Once the crew was confirmed gone, I felt as if I would never be happy again. RIP.

Other than that, I had a decent day. I talked with my editor about my next feature article. The boy toy and I went to the Riverdale Park farmers' market, which is indoors during the winter. Then I went to water aerobics, which I'd been missing for a bit (can't go swimming when the pool is closed due to Snowzilla).

Tomorrow (or today, since it's after midnight) I'm going to see Bruce Springsteen again at the Verizon Center. Go me! Then on Saturday I am finally going to an SCA event again. I haven't been to a single one since War of the Wings last October.

Wow...

Nov. 1st, 2012 11:05 am
luscious_purple: OMG WTF BBQ (OMG WTF BBQ)
It appears that New Yorkers have discovered slug lines.

Seriously, my heart goes out to everyone affected up there in NY and NJ.

I think we'll be hearing this song on Bruce's next tour, along with something more elegiac.
luscious_purple: The middle class is too big to fail! (middle class)
I was reading this AlterNet article about the cultural significance of Bruce Springsteen's work and noticed that the author wrote that Springsteen played at his senior prom!!!!! (With his old band -- that must have been around 1970 or 1971.) Can you *imagine*???

BTW, Springsteen will be 63 on Sunday.
luscious_purple: "avoid heralds" (avoid heralds)
A somewhat late Happy Father's Day to all the fathers on my friends' list!

Another Storvik Novice Tourney in the books. I have all sorts of emotions. Glad that I had a good time. Relieved that I managed to pull off the herald-in-charge duties. Happy to see Flora's darling 9-month-old daughter for the first time. Sad to hear on the radio on the way home that Clarence Clemons died (see here and here).

Hope to write more about the event later (not too much later).

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