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Keeping calm, carrying on
We are, of course, still pretty dismayed about the election results. I remembered that after the 2016 election, I was quite productive because there's obviously work to be done, in my field - so I hope that will happen this time too. I also remember when Reagan was elected, and we were afraid we would get nuked and that all the young men would ( Read more... ) -
Ugh
Are food prices too high?
Is Kamala too "diverse"?
Is Fox News too pernicious?
Needless to say, we are filled with dismay.
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Book completed
The Tropic of Serpents, by Marie Brennan. Memoirs of Lady Trent #2. This time, our intrepid dragon naturalist, Isabella, visits her world's equivalent of Africa, so that she can learn about the dragons of the savannah and, she hopes, the rainforest of a very swampy river delta. Meanwhile, her government hopes to get the native leaders to agree ( Read more... ) -
Waiting...
Today I had a meeting with that very interesting glaciologist whose book I recently enjoyed; she asked all about my writing projects and offered her help. Fun! Great!
When I had dinner downtown with J, D, and DG, at Mandy's, which has lots of fancy milkshakes and elaborate highly sweetened breakfasts, in addition to diner food. J and D each had ( Read more... ) -
Book completed
The Wonder Engine, by T. Kingfisher. Clocktaur #2. This two-book series was a project she was working on and thinking about for more than 12 years, so take heart, you November novel writers! In the previous book, a ragtag team of three criminals and a naïve young scholar traveled from "the dowager's capital city" to Anuket City, which was ( Read more... ) -
9-0
Our football team is still undefeated, with only three games left in the regular season. Fancy, huh?
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November is here
We've been having some rain - J is tired of it but I am fine. I didn't go further than the mailbox today, though - well, I suppose J's house is technically farther from my front door than the mailbox, and I did go there. This week the Friday movie was a rather bad 80's children's horror movie called Monster Squad. I hadn't heard of it before, ( Read more... ) -
Book completed
Clockwork Boys, by T. Kingfisher. This is the first book in a two-part story set in the same world as Paladin's Grace, which I had just read and enjoyed. In this fantasy world (where magic is associated with gods and demons rather than wizards), an army of "clockwork boys" - huge, ruthless, automata - is rampaging through the countryside. The ( Read more... ) -
Halloween
Today after some errands (including turning in our ballots, yay!), I focused on Halloween. I cleaned up all the cobwebs around the door - my annual unkindness to Mrs Funnel Spider - and all the cat dishes, etc., but I didn't bother moving the cats' stacking baskets because with all the rain in the forecast I didn't actually expect trick-or- ( Read more... ) -
Doing good
I ended up having no time at all for work today, but still did worthwhile things. In the afternoon I worked on getting ready for tonight's board meeting, then I went downtown for that. It was in person, for once, and also in an interesting location, the fourth floor of a building I've been in many times, with pretty views of the fall color.
After ( Read more... )