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TMI? TFB!
So I'm at this conference in Las Vegas. I pretty much hate Vegas (I hardly drink, don't smoke or gamble, and hate crowds and heat), though I enjoy seeing shows. Whatevs. This is where the conference is, so this is where I am ( Read more... ) -
2015 Reading Challenge: Hitchens' Letters to a Young Contrarian (nonfiction)
I'm a big fan of Christopher Hitchens' brain, though I wasn't always a fan of his mouth. Wicked smart guy. Wicked, smart tongue.* I'd never read any of his books, however, and that just seemed wrong. I've read plenty of his articles and listened to his debates, and always found him entertaining (he's not very nice, but that hardly seems his goal). ( Read more... ) -
2015 Reading Challenge: Doucette's Yuletide Immortal (set during Christmas)
Full disclosure: I'm good friends with author Gene Doucette's mother, so I may not be the most objective reviewer of his works. I did rant long and hard about the all-caps in Hellenic Immortal, however, so I'm not a complete patsy.
Yuletide Immortal is a short story (though it shows up as ~1,300 pages in my Kindle reader; I have no idea how long it ( Read more... ) -
2015 Reading Challenge: Hesse's Out of the Dust (author with my initials)
This is one of my favorites from the reading challenge: a book by an author with the same initials as mine. I would never, in a gabillion years, think to look for a book using that criterion. I thought about Knut Hamsun (he did win a Nobel prize, after all, and I know I have Pan packed in a box someplace in the basement), but I'm trying to go for ( Read more... ) -
2015 Reading Challenge: Weber's Treecat Wars (nonhuman characters)
I'm a long-time fan of David Weber's Honor Harrington series, whose protagonist is an officer in the Manticore Space Navy. She's a native of Sphinx, a planet with higher gravity (and thus stronger people) and a sentient native species called treecats (also strong, also known as people). Treecats are a fairly large (60 cm) sort of ferret/feline mix ( Read more... ) -
2015 reading challenge (audio books)
I recently read about the 2015 reading challenge. I've never done a reading challenge, an error which clearly I must correct. I love the this particular challenge , because it provides a whole bunch of unusual ways to identify books (author has your initials, book is set in your home town, there's a number in the title, etc.). So I'm going to track ( Read more... ) -
First house-hunting trip in NH
12 houses (or lots) in 2 days. It's kinda hard to keep 'em all straight in my brain, but a few stand out ( Read more... ) -
10 years ago RIGHT NOW
I began the... Er.... Ejection portion of the proceedings.
Yep. The pushing. Or just about right now. I think it was about 20 minutes.
Hey! That was after 43.5 hours of labor! So while it was the easy bit, I. Did. My. Time.
So HAPPY DOUBLE DIGITS to the sweet, smart, wonderful boy who changed my life entirely.
I love you, birthday boy! -
in which I'm not delighted by a book
I've mentioned that I'm not reading as much, though that's misleading. I still read, just not books and magazines. I have stacks of each that I just don't get around to. But I received a new stack of books for Christmas and I want to read each of them so very much and I didn't want to pile them on top of one of the other stacks so I started light ( Read more... ) -
negligence
I wish this blog were the only thing I've been neglected. Sadly, it's not.
I've also been neglecting my family and friends, our house and yard, nutrition, and workouts.
I'm still adjusting to the new job. Especially the new new job, which I've only had for two weeks. I've been trying to offload the old job, with reasonable but incomplete success ( Read more... )