Another Update
Aug. 13th, 2009 09:35 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
fiat_knoxI have got plenty to occupy me today, so before I head AFK for the day I have time for this update.
First of all, expect my presence to go down somewhat during the next week: I've got the duty of house sitting the folks' place next week while they head off to Ireland, on their first holiday since forever. I hope they both enjoy themselves. They'll have good company. My nephew and sister will accompany them there, as will my sister's fiance.
Yes. My sister's boyfriend proposed to her the other night, after months of speculating. About time Jules had something go right in her life. I mean, fancy getting a job with an estate agent just as the damned recession hit. Lousy timing on her part.
Secondly, while house sitting, I have to make sure that the garden gets its share of watering. Hopefully, the weather will take care of that for me: otherwise, I'll have to put on my gardening gloves and go out there and do it myself. Those runner beans won't water themselves.
Thirdly, I have my Ro Focale story to continue to write up about, as well as my psion article.
For the Fourth Rewrite, now provisionally titled The Gilded Saidara With The Silver Touch, I came up with an idea by which astronomers in ancient days could work out the range to an astronomical body in the sky. They'd use the same range finding techniques of surveyors, i.e. measuring angles to the same object from a common baseline a fixed, known distance apart - say, a kilometre or two. Only, of course, with the vast distances involved, they'd get only slight variations in the angles measured - meaning that they'd have had to come up with some staggeringly large numbers fairly early on.
My point? Apart from this world's having a single large moon in the sky, two other worlds exist in the same orbit; one trailing, one leading, both about 120 degrees from one another and from the main world. Both always a fixed distance from the main world, and neither properly visible except when an eclipse of the sun takes place, or after sunset or just before sunrise. And the local astronomers have predicted a solar eclipse in a few months, so everyone with an interest in the eclipse, and in the sister worlds, takes off for the city over which the eclipse' path will appear. Probably somewhere like Dilithia, or maybe some town in Trezan. I've yet to decide where to put the path of the eclipse.
I love writing. You can put eclipses anywhere you like. :)
First of all, expect my presence to go down somewhat during the next week: I've got the duty of house sitting the folks' place next week while they head off to Ireland, on their first holiday since forever. I hope they both enjoy themselves. They'll have good company. My nephew and sister will accompany them there, as will my sister's fiance.
Yes. My sister's boyfriend proposed to her the other night, after months of speculating. About time Jules had something go right in her life. I mean, fancy getting a job with an estate agent just as the damned recession hit. Lousy timing on her part.
Secondly, while house sitting, I have to make sure that the garden gets its share of watering. Hopefully, the weather will take care of that for me: otherwise, I'll have to put on my gardening gloves and go out there and do it myself. Those runner beans won't water themselves.
Thirdly, I have my Ro Focale story to continue to write up about, as well as my psion article.
For the Fourth Rewrite, now provisionally titled The Gilded Saidara With The Silver Touch, I came up with an idea by which astronomers in ancient days could work out the range to an astronomical body in the sky. They'd use the same range finding techniques of surveyors, i.e. measuring angles to the same object from a common baseline a fixed, known distance apart - say, a kilometre or two. Only, of course, with the vast distances involved, they'd get only slight variations in the angles measured - meaning that they'd have had to come up with some staggeringly large numbers fairly early on.
My point? Apart from this world's having a single large moon in the sky, two other worlds exist in the same orbit; one trailing, one leading, both about 120 degrees from one another and from the main world. Both always a fixed distance from the main world, and neither properly visible except when an eclipse of the sun takes place, or after sunset or just before sunrise. And the local astronomers have predicted a solar eclipse in a few months, so everyone with an interest in the eclipse, and in the sister worlds, takes off for the city over which the eclipse' path will appear. Probably somewhere like Dilithia, or maybe some town in Trezan. I've yet to decide where to put the path of the eclipse.
I love writing. You can put eclipses anywhere you like. :)
