Happy Days Meme: Day Four

Merry Christmas, everyone! What made me happy today: Emily. She’s certainly not the only thing that made me happy today — phone calls from family and far away friends, meeting Mary Robinette’s grandmother, the infamous centenarian, and feasting on homemade pickles and sausage balls while Mary and I sat on the well in the sunshine. It’s Christmas, after all,…

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Happy Days meme: Day Three

The "best" way I’ve found so far of curling my hair has been sleeping in perm rollers with newly-dry just-after-a-shower hair. The unfortunate thing is that these are twenty-year-old perm rollers, so the ones that don’t tear half my hair out end up breaking when the elastic loses to the strain of too many years. Last night I stopped…

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Happy Days meme: Day Two

Thing that made me happy today: caffeine. Which reminds me…what exactly *is* on the end of the Starbucks swizzle stick? Is this a mermaid with a cup of coffee? Really? Is she flying? Coffee doesn’t steam underwater… Discuss.

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You’ve Been Idolized

The iPunk Team here at Ingram was having waaaaaay too much fun yesterday…and the virtual soundtrack was Billy Idol. For your musical earworm enjoyment, my dear friend Hampton Ryan brings to us the Idolized version of "White Christmas": Hey little Santa what have I done?Hey little Santa I’m a good one.Hey little Santa I want a supermanHey little Santa…

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Happy Days meme: Day One

Mary Robinette Kowal tagged me on her blog:The rules on this one are simple. For 8 days, post 1 thing every day that made you happy. David Tauriainen, a friend of mine from Mo*Con, had asked me to sign a copy of AlphaOops for his niece Alexandra. I did it up in true Lee-Signature style, along with a note…

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