As part of my cunning plan to post more regularly again, have some Wednesday reading!

What are you currently reading?

Discount Armageddon by Seanan McGuire. It's lighter than her other urban fantasy, but I'm having fun and light was what I needed ( Read more... )

For reasons that only my immune system can answer (and it doesn't talk to me much), my body has suddenly decided to cooperate with my meds. Of course, it decided to do that a week before I saw my new GP to ask for referrals. Good timing, eh ( Read more... )

*blows dust off the furniture ( Read more... )

Posting this for posterity, mostly so that I can check back next winter to find out just how long this hell lasted. I'm hoping that next winter, I'll be checking back at this time and feeling happy that winter is already over ( Read more... )

Ten years ago today, my dad and I sat down in front of the telly box with our hearts pounding and our palms sweating, waiting for something ( Read more... )

As a retreat from the overwhelming winterness of the last couple of weeks (and because it's now on US Netflix), I've been working my way through S2 of Hawaii Five-0. I know that it's got problems, it's maybe not the highest quality telly ever...but it's got sunshine and sand and people who aren't wearing snow boots ( Read more... )

Honestly, I had no idea this much snow could exist. We had 30cm on Sunday--which translated into chest deep drifts covering most of my driveway--and now we've got another 50cm+ today. I'm not going to try to estimate how deep the drifts on my driveway are right now. Very deep is all I can say ( Read more... )

I got the chance to meet Terry Pratchett several imes over the years. Mostly it was book signings at bookshops, because I could never pass those up when it was Sir Terry. he's actually the first author I ever did that for--the launch of The Fifth Elephant while I was living in Bristol. I'd never queued up to meet an author and get a book signed ( Read more... )

Me: I checked this thing out of the repository but it won't let me edit it. Is something wrong with the repository ( Read more... )

The whole snow/ice/winter thing has become such a huge source of anxiety and depression for me that I'm trying a new technique for dealing with it: acknowledging its existence but otherwise ignoring it. My Twitter feed of local news has been moved to a place I can't easily see it (apart from local travel news, which is important), I'm only allowing ( Read more... )