This morning came awful early

When my wife’s alarm clock went off at 5:30 AM, she said to me, “When did you get in last night?”

Me: “3:30.”
Her: “Yeah. I woke up at 2:30, and you weren’t in yet. I thought, Those idiots*, and went back to sleep.”

Those idiots were me and my cow-orker Craig, and the reason we got in at 3:30 AM was that we went to the city to see Neil Gaiman last night.

A couple photos:

Neil Gaiman in Winterpeg

Neil Gaiman's green scrawl

I’ll probaby have more to say later. Right now I have to get back to work.

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* My wife would like it pointed out that she called us dummies, not idiots.

Contemplating a tattoo

…someday. And so here’re the ones currently under consideration:

  • Two ravens, along with a quote from verse 80 of Hávamál: “Praise ice when over it”. (But ideally, translated into Icelandic.)
  • This — the cherry blossom eight-sided mirror symbol of Kodokan Judo.
  • Eppur si muove — Galileo’s (probably apocryphal) rebuttal to his forced confession that the Earth does not move. It means “And yet it does move.”
  • “Luminous beings are we, not this crude matter”.