The New Game

Brad explains eloquently why I left and returned to three fandoms... But only stayed in two.
http://sherlockpeoria.blogspot.com/2013/02/a-new-game.html

"Sherlockians needed a new Game in 2001, but we also needed something else: new Sherlockians. As much as we all hate to admit it, there comes a time when we get old and jaded with even our favorite things. Many is the lover of Sherlockian pastiche in their younger days who grows to disdain all attempts at it in their gray days. We never love anything the hundredth time around as much as we did that first time -- there's no fighting it.

But along came the BBC Sherlock and Benedict Cumberbatch, and suddenly we hit the jackpot: new Sherlockians and a new Game. Somewhere out there, more than one somebody is, even now, trying to recreate the modern 221B with its cattle skull and headphones. Speculative research is being done like crazy, trying to figure out just how it was Sherlock survived this Reichenbach. And some lovely young lady on YouTube is trying to teach us how to make origami lotuses from "The Blind Banker."

It's a new Game, and they're playing it the same way we played the old one back in the day. Thoughtful analysis, recreations, creativity in both word and art, visiting the sacred sites . . . as much as some "elite devotee" or the other might like to pooh-pooh these new fans, they are us and we are them."


All the same can be said for Elementary fans, or will be.

There's good news and there's bad news

The good news is: Sequestration hasn't taken my job.

The bad news is: my company is hunkering down regardless and, as part of cost cutting, denying any more advances on time off.

The good news is, this decision was made *after* I went to Gally on leave I didn't have.

The bad news is, I had a ticket for the APL bus trip to the Philly Flower Show (theme: England's Gardens) next Friday, but I don't have enough leave because I'm "paying off" Gally's time.

The good news is, that's always a sold-out trip, so I can very likely get a full refund selling my ticket on.

Also good news is that the flower show starts tomorrow and Philly's only 2.5 hours drive from here. There's nothing saying I can't take the trip; it's just that I can't take the leave. I'm thinking of driving up at the crack of dawn on Sunday, buying a ticket at the door when it opens, and seeing the show while all the good people are either sleeping or in church.

(The bad news is, it means inner-city driving and that by the time I get home, all I'll be fit for is flopping on the couch like a dead flounder, which is exactly what I'll feel like.)

And finally, unless something really horrible happens to me/cats/car, I have no planned time off between now and 221BCon, so by the time it rolls around I'll have banked enough leave to not worry about the new restriction.

So, yay?