She was just seventeen

[randy_byers]

Because she's at sea and can't stop me, I'm posting another picture of Sharee from the batch of scans I got from Andy Porter yesterday. All the pictures are from the 1980 Norwescon, and most of them are of her in costume, like the one I posted yesterday. This is one of two non-costume shots. It looks very '40s to me, and not just because it's black and white. The hair style and jacket look old-fashioned to me too.

It's hard to think about that era without thinking about what a stupid child I was at that age (an older man of nineteen), but I guess we all have to learn the hard way. And what did I learn? That I'll always be stupid about certain things! I just have a cognitive bias that way. The unknown known, as Michael Dobson put it in a recent Facebook post about risk analysis. Appropriately enough.

Comments

[holyoutlaw.livejournal.com]

I agree that the hair style and tweed jacket add to the retro feel.

And, speaking of life-long lessons, I think one of my failings is "giving up too soon." Which I've just gotten ANOTHER lesson in. Hah!

[randy-byers.livejournal.com]

Sorry to hear it. Of course there's also the classic mistake of throwing good money after bad. There's just no winning!

[gerisullivan.livejournal.com]

The Three Laws of Thermodynamics...and other things, too:

"You can't win, you can't break even, and you can't get out of the game."