ways to a girl's heart
Nov. 16th, 2008 09:42 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
sergebroomI found out on Friday night that one way to a girl’s heart involves a ladder.
No, my wife didn’t ask me to climb on the roof because some thing had died up there. First, Sue was still at the hospital, recovering from her surgery, and she was so out of it that she turned in early. I took my mom-in-law back to our place then went to the local SF club’s meeting.
This month’s meeting had local writer Walter Jon Williams read from a story of his, followed by questions & answers – with us asking the questions and him answering them. When it looked like the meeting was all over, Duke, one of the fans, brought up a big box to the podium. While two other fans held a blanket in front of the table, Duke could be seen doing something, but we knew not what, until the blanket came down.
And there was a Jacob’s Ladder, sparking and buzzing.
While shouts of ”It’s alive!” erupted in the room, Pat, another fan, approached the device and took a closer look. She was quite impressed by Duke having set up the electrodes inside a large glass tube so that people were less likely to get themselves zapped. When Duke announced that it was a birthday present for her, she was so excited that she actually did a little Happy Dance then declared that she’d steampunk up the generator’s wooden box.
By the way, another way to a girl’s heart is to talk nerdy to her, according to the t-shirt worn that evening by a fan who works at the Atomic Museum. (And, yes, her name really is Jessica Coyle.)
I wish I had known all of this when I was going to College.
No, my wife didn’t ask me to climb on the roof because some thing had died up there. First, Sue was still at the hospital, recovering from her surgery, and she was so out of it that she turned in early. I took my mom-in-law back to our place then went to the local SF club’s meeting.
This month’s meeting had local writer Walter Jon Williams read from a story of his, followed by questions & answers – with us asking the questions and him answering them. When it looked like the meeting was all over, Duke, one of the fans, brought up a big box to the podium. While two other fans held a blanket in front of the table, Duke could be seen doing something, but we knew not what, until the blanket came down.
And there was a Jacob’s Ladder, sparking and buzzing.
While shouts of ”It’s alive!” erupted in the room, Pat, another fan, approached the device and took a closer look. She was quite impressed by Duke having set up the electrodes inside a large glass tube so that people were less likely to get themselves zapped. When Duke announced that it was a birthday present for her, she was so excited that she actually did a little Happy Dance then declared that she’d steampunk up the generator’s wooden box.
By the way, another way to a girl’s heart is to talk nerdy to her, according to the t-shirt worn that evening by a fan who works at the Atomic Museum. (And, yes, her name really is Jessica Coyle.)
I wish I had known all of this when I was going to College.
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Date: Nov. 17th, 2008 11:16 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: Nov. 17th, 2008 11:55 pm (UTC)In the end, it worked out.
Even without the death-ray projector.
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Date: Nov. 18th, 2008 12:07 am (UTC)