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[stonebender]

I had truly never intended to put anything in this journal. I'm a bit conflicted about the whole idea. I started this whole thing because I wanted to to read serenejournal's posts that are restricted to friends. It seemed like the simplest solution. I still don't expect to be a prolific contributor. I tried a Web log on my homepage years ago and only managed to feel guilty about how little I posted.

I was surprised to find I had more friends here than I thought. Hello to those who added me to their friends list.

Anybody guess where I got my user name from? Don't be surprised if this is the only post I ever make. *waving in your general direction*

Comments

[supergee.livejournal.com]

Callahan's narrator?

[stonebender.livejournal.com]

Close but not quite. I got it from where Spider got it.

[hobbitbabe.livejournal.com]

I'm thinking Heinlein. Maybe it's a character/family in a story written by the author in Stranger, also mentioned in The Number of the Beast.

[stonebender.livejournal.com]

Good guess! It is Heinlein, and I believe the character was mentioned in The Number of the Beast. Uncle Stonebender, was a probably mythical Uncle of one of the main characters in Magic Inc. No matter what the characters were doing or trying to do Uncle Stonebender could do it better and with more style.

[lissa-dora.livejournal.com]

"Uncle Tobias we kept in a bucket..."
Jubal, from Stranger narrates it to 'Teena, the sentient computer originally from the end of Time Enough for Love... at the convention at the end of Number, which was the most self-indulgent crossover work Heinlein ever did.

Hi, I'm Lissa, and I'm a Heninlein geek.

[stonebender.livejournal.com]

Well, to be fair, The Number of the Beast was written under severe blood deprevation to the brain. :-) At the time, I didn't mind his self-indulgence. I was just happy to be reading a new Heinlein. Something I thought I wouldn't be able to do again.

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[lissa-dora.livejournal.com]

BY the time I began reading Heinlein, To Sail Beyond the Sunset had just come out (oddly enough, it was the first Heinlein I read - I was about 10, and it messed me up forever ;-), so all Heinlein exists in the same timeline for me - a "new Heinlein" is one I've never encountered before.

I don't suppose you know if any Heinlein fanfic sites exist?

[serenejournal.livejournal.com]

How come you were annoyed, love? :-) (And don't feel any grand need to post here; I feel ambivalent about it myself, so I know what you mean.)

[stonebender.livejournal.com]

Just a little annoyed at myself for giving in to posting. I had a fantasy of keeping the Last updated field in my journal at "never". The graphic made me seem much more upset than I was.

[serenejournal.livejournal.com]

*grin* You're adorable.

[pyrzqxgl.livejournal.com]

I know the feelings! I had been reading various journals just to be able to read more stuff by people I liked, was advised to make my own account so as to be admitted to a certain person's friends-only postings, and then ran into the twin anxieties of posting frequency/content and friends lists.

Anyway, welcome, nice to see you!

[stonebender.livejournal.com]

Thanks for welcome Tané!

[stonebender.livejournal.com]

*nod* *nod* Thanks for the welcome Tané! :-)

[firecat]

*waving hello*

and *waving a wand to disperse journal-updating-or-lack-thereof-guilt-rays*

[lcohen]

*wave*

i'm a fairly infrequent poster (if i get a post in once a week, that's a spurt for me, usually). it's my journal, i can do what i like with it!!

i am, however, a prolific commenter!

[stonebender.livejournal.com]

*chuckle* Well, welcome aboard!

[redbird]

I've added you to my friends list because, like serenejournal, I sometimes make friends-only posts.

[stonebender.livejournal.com]

Thank You!