August 14-20, 2014

Thursday August 14, 2014.  Adult Children Anonymous -- got my eight-year medallion.

***On the bus home, a large group which included some with cat whiskers painted on their faces boarded.  Turned out they were returning from the International Cat Video Festival.

***The August issue of Chess Life has an article on Fritz Leiber's chess-related sf and fantasy stories.

***Friday August 15, 2014.  I usually wish the classical music announcers on KSJN talked much, much less.  However, this was Leon Theremin's birthday.  Turns out he was a Soviet spy, along with his other work.

***Saturday August 16, 2014.  Mnstf (Twin Cities sf club) meeting at Scott and Irene Rauns.  Good meeting.

***Sunday August 17, 2014.  Reread Melissa Scott's Conceiving the Heavens -- a book on writing science fiction, published in 1999.  Included was a bit of speculation about electronic currency. I suspect Ms. Scott didn't expect it to arrive just ten years later. 

***MinnSpec (Minnesota Speculative Fiction Writers) meeting at the Uptown Lunds supermarket.  Topic:  Emotional Manipulation of the Reader.  I suspect the topics brought up could be used for at least six panel discussions.

I brought the (not(yet?)) official MinnSpec Library for its first outing.  The library was, so far, six books on writing which I hadn't read in a while.  One got taken out.

***Wednesday August 20, 2014.  Birthday of H. P. Lovecraft and Jacqueline Susann.