seen in the graveyard

I usually look at the headstones when I walk around the cemetery, but for some reason, I never noticed this one until today:

"Wealthy Parker,
wife of
Wm Simmons
d. Oct 12, 1886
ae. 85"

w00t!

I'm pretty sure, though, that Wealthy is a name that you could only use in the nineteenth century, with all those other names like "Charity" and so forth.

EDIT: For some reason, w00t doesn't look like it's supposed to in my journal...hrmph.

recommended author

I have been reading the works of Kage Baker, who has written a series of novels about "The Company." I just finished the most recent one last night and it was delightful: Time travel, cyborgs, secret corporations running the world, pirates, true love, genetic engineering, neo-puritanical 24th century denizens (who have banned cheese, chocolate, booze, and most other things), and so forth.

Her first novel, In the Garden of Iden wasn't my most favorite book in the world, but the series is worth sticking with.

Also, her other books are pretty fun, and Mother Aegypt contains one of my most favorite short stories ever, "How They Tried to Talk Indian Tony Down," which is a scream.

Any other Kage Baker fans out there?

computer update

Yay! Yay! Our computer guy came and updated the browser on my computer and now my LJ screen displays without putting some fields on top of other fields...yay! yay!