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pedanther1. In July of 2013, I set out to re-read all the novels and short stories by Sharon Lee and Steve Miller set in the Liaden universe (sixteen novels, and considerably more short stories), one chapter at a time in chronological order, blogging my progress as a way to keep myself on track. I have now achieved that goal, but the blog will be continuing for a bit longer while I read the new novel that came out while I was re-reading the old ones. (That also buys me some time to finish up the concluding post on Lessons From This Project, or What You Can Learn From My Mistakes.)
2. For reasons that I may get around to talking about later, I have started studying German through Duolingo. (I did German for three years in high school, but most of it has leaked away since; what I usually say is that I can reliably manage "Hello", "Goodbye", and "I'll have a slice of the black forest cake, please".)
I was amused when one of the example sentences in the first lesson on nominative pronouns was "Ist das deine Kuh?" ("Das ist nicht meine Kuh. Es spreche Neigh. Das ist ein Pferd.")
3. The annual local performing arts festival is over for another year. Once again, I emceed all of it except for the session where I was playing with the brass band. I was pretty wrung out by Sunday evening. (The music section of the festival runs for three whole days, from Friday through Sunday. The drama section fluctuates a lot, depending on how many of the schools have active drama programs and choose to enter that year, but this year we had enough for a drama evening on the Monday, with some pretty impressive work entered. It strikes me that there is perhaps more outreach needed when the city has two theatre groups and neither ever produces any entries.)
4. I completed NaArMaMo this year, and found it very friendly and encouraging. I have posted my daily artworks on my Tumblr. (See if you can spot which one I did on Sunday night after the performing arts festival.)
5. Signal boosting: Humble Bundle offers bundles of games, ebooks, and other electronic products for special prices with proceeds going to charity. They're currently, but not for much longer, offering a bundle of Star Wars audio books which includes, if you pay at least $15, all three parts of the Star Wars radio series.
2. For reasons that I may get around to talking about later, I have started studying German through Duolingo. (I did German for three years in high school, but most of it has leaked away since; what I usually say is that I can reliably manage "Hello", "Goodbye", and "I'll have a slice of the black forest cake, please".)
I was amused when one of the example sentences in the first lesson on nominative pronouns was "Ist das deine Kuh?" ("Das ist nicht meine Kuh. Es spreche Neigh. Das ist ein Pferd.")
3. The annual local performing arts festival is over for another year. Once again, I emceed all of it except for the session where I was playing with the brass band. I was pretty wrung out by Sunday evening. (The music section of the festival runs for three whole days, from Friday through Sunday. The drama section fluctuates a lot, depending on how many of the schools have active drama programs and choose to enter that year, but this year we had enough for a drama evening on the Monday, with some pretty impressive work entered. It strikes me that there is perhaps more outreach needed when the city has two theatre groups and neither ever produces any entries.)
4. I completed NaArMaMo this year, and found it very friendly and encouraging. I have posted my daily artworks on my Tumblr. (See if you can spot which one I did on Sunday night after the performing arts festival.)
5. Signal boosting: Humble Bundle offers bundles of games, ebooks, and other electronic products for special prices with proceeds going to charity. They're currently, but not for much longer, offering a bundle of Star Wars audio books which includes, if you pay at least $15, all three parts of the Star Wars radio series.
