On Sunday, in the morning it rained, and in the afternoon the local Bradford Pear trees decided to start blooming. The next day local cherry trees decided it was Time also. Meanwhile, other trees were just starting to think about maybe making leaf buds (they're confident today that it's that time; green is starting to subtly emerge), so the local hillsides became backgrounds of bare-branched trees and evergreens dotted here and there with the white floofiness I've talked about before. The pear trees are ubiquitous enough in these parts that on the drive home from work today I don't think I ever got to an area where one was completely out of sight.
So spring hath come again to eastern Tennessee.
--Dave, further bulletins, as they say, as events warrant
So spring hath come again to eastern Tennessee.
--Dave, further bulletins, as they say, as events warrant
(Yes, I'm still alive.)
It occurred to me today, while reading _The Best of Eric Frank Russell_ [*], that we live in the Age of Helium I.
("What?")
Lemme 'splain. The boiling point of helium is 4.22K (Kelvin), at which point every other element (and, I suspect, compound) is long since a solid. It stays liquid, unlike ANYTHING else, all the way down to absolute zero; we've found this by direct experimentation plus a bit of extrapolation, cuz you can't actually get to that zero, any more than you can reach light speed.
But to do so, we had to invent methods of refrigeration that would work at those low temperatures; in nature, it's hard to find places that are that cold, and there aren't any within our reach currently. And, there's this thing called microwave background radiation ... which means that there isn't anywhere in this UNIVERSE that, without interference, is colder than about 2.725K... because the entire sky is that temperature, at the very least, because that's the last fossilized trace of the time 380,000 years after the Big Bang when the electrical plasma filling the Void finally got cool enough to combine into neutral atoms - and became transparent, so that radiation of that temperature could suddenly propagate long distances without being immediately reabsorbed. And as the Universe grew since then, that last-emitted radiation stretched and cooled, and cooled, and cooled.
So, not that long ago (on a cosmic basis) the sky was WARMER than the boiling point of helium. Meaning that, without some way of pumping heat AWAY, there wasn't any, anywhere. And one of the Laws of Thermodynamics says that, left to itself, heat doesn't do that... So we've only comparatively recently entered the Age of (Liquid) Helium.
And there's more. At and below its 'lambda point' of 2.177K, helium II, the superfluid version of He, can exist. We've made it in the laboratory; it has all SORTS of interesting properties. And, at present... it doesn't exist anywhere in nature. Anywhere in the Universe. It needs some sort of artifical cooling to exist, even now, because the sky is warmer than that. We're not that far away, on cosmic time scales, from when it CAN ... but we're not there yet. So the current era of cosmological expansion could well be called the Helium I era. And it doesn't SEEM to have anything special to do with us being here now - a cosmic coincidence! Rejoice!
--Dave, will divide time for food
[*] Don't ask me why, because it didn't have ANYTHING to do with the story I was reading at the time.
It occurred to me today, while reading _The Best of Eric Frank Russell_ [*], that we live in the Age of Helium I.
("What?")
Lemme 'splain. The boiling point of helium is 4.22K (Kelvin), at which point every other element (and, I suspect, compound) is long since a solid. It stays liquid, unlike ANYTHING else, all the way down to absolute zero; we've found this by direct experimentation plus a bit of extrapolation, cuz you can't actually get to that zero, any more than you can reach light speed.
But to do so, we had to invent methods of refrigeration that would work at those low temperatures; in nature, it's hard to find places that are that cold, and there aren't any within our reach currently. And, there's this thing called microwave background radiation ... which means that there isn't anywhere in this UNIVERSE that, without interference, is colder than about 2.725K... because the entire sky is that temperature, at the very least, because that's the last fossilized trace of the time 380,000 years after the Big Bang when the electrical plasma filling the Void finally got cool enough to combine into neutral atoms - and became transparent, so that radiation of that temperature could suddenly propagate long distances without being immediately reabsorbed. And as the Universe grew since then, that last-emitted radiation stretched and cooled, and cooled, and cooled.
So, not that long ago (on a cosmic basis) the sky was WARMER than the boiling point of helium. Meaning that, without some way of pumping heat AWAY, there wasn't any, anywhere. And one of the Laws of Thermodynamics says that, left to itself, heat doesn't do that... So we've only comparatively recently entered the Age of (Liquid) Helium.
And there's more. At and below its 'lambda point' of 2.177K, helium II, the superfluid version of He, can exist. We've made it in the laboratory; it has all SORTS of interesting properties. And, at present... it doesn't exist anywhere in nature. Anywhere in the Universe. It needs some sort of artifical cooling to exist, even now, because the sky is warmer than that. We're not that far away, on cosmic time scales, from when it CAN ... but we're not there yet. So the current era of cosmological expansion could well be called the Helium I era. And it doesn't SEEM to have anything special to do with us being here now - a cosmic coincidence! Rejoice!
--Dave, will divide time for food
[*] Don't ask me why, because it didn't have ANYTHING to do with the story I was reading at the time.
... ooooor I could just put another entry in by the time I actually get around to having a little time/space to come back to do blog stuff again. (Need for sleep plus "takes 30-60 minutes to fall asleep" plus "sleep lasts for either 2 or 4 hours total" subtracts some free time from one's day. So does taking five minutes to put on a pair of socks.)
Well. Let's see what-all I can remember of what I've done ("!!! ... WHAT HAVE YOU DONE???") in the last few months. Did you know there's a Druid Road within a mile or so of me? I didn't before yesterday.
Tested some fast food places I hadn't been to before, or in a while. Firehouse Subs: quite edible, but not spectacular, would use again. Red Robin is way too expensive, though the "bottomless steak fries" idea is nice. Mooya burgers are nice, and have it all over what Wendy's have become. Five Guys burgers and fries are mediocre, oh well. There IS still a Denny's in the area, it turns out, out west a bit on I-40 around where I-75 splits off; too far to go regularly but once in a while is ok. (Getting there and finding they were closed for 4 hours for some sort of remodeling RIGHT around the time I was there was a bit much tho.) Burger King is better than I remember it having been. McDonald's McChicken apparently only comes in spicy-coating, which renders it useless for me and leaves Filet-o-Fish still the only thing I can really eat there.
Food experiments: sour cream & french onion chip dip goes well with mac & cheese, but I knew that already. Making stuffing from a box and gravy from a packet in the same casserole dish works nicely. Mmmm. Hashbrowns & dip is NOT a good idea, blech.
A blizzard of slush occurred in mid-January. It snowed here like four or five times this winter, which is well above average, even if a couple of them were "snowed big fluffly flakes for an hour or two that then all melted quickly and didn't stick". The slush blizzard stuck, and the next day was one of those icy days in which all of Knoxville realizes they have NO ACTUAL IDEA how to drive on icy roads, especially hills. AAAAND there was an actual ice storm a week later, just when people thought they could forget their hard-won skills for another year or five. I had not had to cope before with 1/4" of ice over my ENTIRE CAR. I did cope, and then went to a scheduled funeral (see below), only to find that nobody else was there; it turned out they rescheduled for the next day, when I couldn't come.
My ISP had a hiccup near the end of January; everything got sorted out eventually, though in the process I went over in person and talked with people there. And found that one of the two people I wanted to talk to was gone, but the other was still there, and things got sorted out. My emergency backup methods for accessing email and news do work, still.
Another member of the chorus has died - Alex Williams, this time. (And some others are in bad enough shape that they've stopped coming, or stopped assisting with projects if they already hadn't been coming.) Depressingness. Need to remind folks to check how Edie is doing...
My teeth are doing basically okay, with a little bone loss. My feet are a little more sore than they were last year; it may be time to update the amount of neuro-painkiller I take? Two or three more small spots of collapsed-vein became apparent, and are not spreading or anything but I'd rather they hadn't shown up. Coming back from Nashville it turned out I had apparently picked up a minor convention-crud-type issue from going back and forth in the hotel and being exposed to family members for the first time in a while; it's still not entirely gone, and is at the "occasionally cough to try to get small pieces of phlegm to move up and out, which they don't" stage. Had a few days as a bass.
Got my taxes sent off; a small refund should show up in a while, though I know that this year it'll take longer. Replaced both front tires because apparently it Was Time, before either one blew fortunately; got my oil changed and fluids looked at. Haven't gotten my wipers replaced yet.
Talked to my brother and his wife for the first time in several years (!). It turns out that, though they'd been getting my Xmas cards and presents, apparently something had gone wrong with the address they had for me (or something stranger had happened), and NONE of the letters or packages they'd sent HERE had gotten here for some time, including a Kobo. Someone somewhere is happy but puzzled, I guess. We straightened that out, and made sure I had a good phone number (several in fact, blame cell phones) and email for them. And it turned out the REASON they were calling was that they and Gwen and Dennis were going to be in Nashville for a cross-schools chess tournament for several days, and wanted to know if I could drive over and visit! And maybe they'd stop over to Knoxville and look around too. (The latter ended up getting dropped.) So they did, and I did; I hadn't seen any of them in some time. Bruce is still tall and imposing, and Laura is still slim and absolutely beautiful; Dennis is like 9 or so and somewhat hyper/defocussed/brilliant, and Gwen is in high school and doing all sorts of stuff including opera. It was a conversation-and-walking-filled eleven hours or so. (Too much walking, alas. I don't really realize how much normal people DO until I hang around with some for a while.) I got a couple presents, we all talked, I showed Bruce the Movies in 15 Minutes livejournal community (but he's pretty sure he doesn't want to start reading actual fanfic of any sort / fanbase). The navigation system of the family turns out to be straight out of Rube Goldberg, it was glorious. Visited a bookstore, bought a book, had a book bought for me as well. (Bruce and Laura run a bookstore back home, and like to visit bookstores in other places partly to see how they do stuff differently.) I shall report in a while on the experience of setting up a Kobo and getting it to do anything particularly useful.
The Bradford Pear trees around here bloomed on the equinox, and did their usual "FLOOF we are visual representations of large scoops of vanilla ice cream while all the trees around are still brown bare branches" thing. The cherry trees bloomed about a week later. Bradford pear pollen then made a concerted effort to coat the entire area about an eighth of an inch deep (which can't really have helped with the convention-crud, see above). A bit after that, violets, and the next day daffodils and dandelions. Then the real flood of different things hit, so I stopped keeping track. Spring temperatures have come, and summer temps are poking at the door. My air-conditioning is working at the moment, hooray! There has also been rain.
Hmmm okay, there was more of course but whatever it was has gone from my head again; many of the 'oh, that's something I could add to the blog, let me remember that' things go away again after a day or two. Que sera, serape. Many books have of course come into my possession since January. Mua ha ha!
Finished: Kay - River of Stars; Walton - Among Others; Christopher - Seven Wonders; Hughes - Sharp;
Extended: Datlow & Windling (ed.) - Queen Victoria's Book of Spells;
Library: Grossman - The Magicians; Lackey - Magic's Promise;
fanfic & online:
have read Whateley Universe stories up to 4/14/13
shrewreadings - Adventure of the Knight's Hood, (Badger-verse) Badgering the Lawyers, Why SHIELD Legal Can't Have Nice Things, Badger,_Sett & Match, Socially Responsible Graffiti, The Rogers Movement, Structures,_Limitations,_Mergers,_and Acqusitions 1-5, Badgering Around the Christmas Tree 1-5; copperbadge - Free To Good Home, The Piecemaker, The End, The Most Amazing Things (Some Terrible Lie), Schoolboy, That's Why They Call It A Gift, Act of Redemption, Some Strange Race; scifigrl47 - Hollow Your Bones Like A Bird's 9; cleolinda/m15m - The Avengers In 15 Minutes
Well. Let's see what-all I can remember of what I've done ("!!! ... WHAT HAVE YOU DONE???") in the last few months. Did you know there's a Druid Road within a mile or so of me? I didn't before yesterday.
Tested some fast food places I hadn't been to before, or in a while. Firehouse Subs: quite edible, but not spectacular, would use again. Red Robin is way too expensive, though the "bottomless steak fries" idea is nice. Mooya burgers are nice, and have it all over what Wendy's have become. Five Guys burgers and fries are mediocre, oh well. There IS still a Denny's in the area, it turns out, out west a bit on I-40 around where I-75 splits off; too far to go regularly but once in a while is ok. (Getting there and finding they were closed for 4 hours for some sort of remodeling RIGHT around the time I was there was a bit much tho.) Burger King is better than I remember it having been. McDonald's McChicken apparently only comes in spicy-coating, which renders it useless for me and leaves Filet-o-Fish still the only thing I can really eat there.
Food experiments: sour cream & french onion chip dip goes well with mac & cheese, but I knew that already. Making stuffing from a box and gravy from a packet in the same casserole dish works nicely. Mmmm. Hashbrowns & dip is NOT a good idea, blech.
A blizzard of slush occurred in mid-January. It snowed here like four or five times this winter, which is well above average, even if a couple of them were "snowed big fluffly flakes for an hour or two that then all melted quickly and didn't stick". The slush blizzard stuck, and the next day was one of those icy days in which all of Knoxville realizes they have NO ACTUAL IDEA how to drive on icy roads, especially hills. AAAAND there was an actual ice storm a week later, just when people thought they could forget their hard-won skills for another year or five. I had not had to cope before with 1/4" of ice over my ENTIRE CAR. I did cope, and then went to a scheduled funeral (see below), only to find that nobody else was there; it turned out they rescheduled for the next day, when I couldn't come.
My ISP had a hiccup near the end of January; everything got sorted out eventually, though in the process I went over in person and talked with people there. And found that one of the two people I wanted to talk to was gone, but the other was still there, and things got sorted out. My emergency backup methods for accessing email and news do work, still.
Another member of the chorus has died - Alex Williams, this time. (And some others are in bad enough shape that they've stopped coming, or stopped assisting with projects if they already hadn't been coming.) Depressingness. Need to remind folks to check how Edie is doing...
My teeth are doing basically okay, with a little bone loss. My feet are a little more sore than they were last year; it may be time to update the amount of neuro-painkiller I take? Two or three more small spots of collapsed-vein became apparent, and are not spreading or anything but I'd rather they hadn't shown up. Coming back from Nashville it turned out I had apparently picked up a minor convention-crud-type issue from going back and forth in the hotel and being exposed to family members for the first time in a while; it's still not entirely gone, and is at the "occasionally cough to try to get small pieces of phlegm to move up and out, which they don't" stage. Had a few days as a bass.
Got my taxes sent off; a small refund should show up in a while, though I know that this year it'll take longer. Replaced both front tires because apparently it Was Time, before either one blew fortunately; got my oil changed and fluids looked at. Haven't gotten my wipers replaced yet.
Talked to my brother and his wife for the first time in several years (!). It turns out that, though they'd been getting my Xmas cards and presents, apparently something had gone wrong with the address they had for me (or something stranger had happened), and NONE of the letters or packages they'd sent HERE had gotten here for some time, including a Kobo. Someone somewhere is happy but puzzled, I guess. We straightened that out, and made sure I had a good phone number (several in fact, blame cell phones) and email for them. And it turned out the REASON they were calling was that they and Gwen and Dennis were going to be in Nashville for a cross-schools chess tournament for several days, and wanted to know if I could drive over and visit! And maybe they'd stop over to Knoxville and look around too. (The latter ended up getting dropped.) So they did, and I did; I hadn't seen any of them in some time. Bruce is still tall and imposing, and Laura is still slim and absolutely beautiful; Dennis is like 9 or so and somewhat hyper/defocussed/brilliant, and Gwen is in high school and doing all sorts of stuff including opera. It was a conversation-and-walking-filled eleven hours or so. (Too much walking, alas. I don't really realize how much normal people DO until I hang around with some for a while.) I got a couple presents, we all talked, I showed Bruce the Movies in 15 Minutes livejournal community (but he's pretty sure he doesn't want to start reading actual fanfic of any sort / fanbase). The navigation system of the family turns out to be straight out of Rube Goldberg, it was glorious. Visited a bookstore, bought a book, had a book bought for me as well. (Bruce and Laura run a bookstore back home, and like to visit bookstores in other places partly to see how they do stuff differently.) I shall report in a while on the experience of setting up a Kobo and getting it to do anything particularly useful.
The Bradford Pear trees around here bloomed on the equinox, and did their usual "FLOOF we are visual representations of large scoops of vanilla ice cream while all the trees around are still brown bare branches" thing. The cherry trees bloomed about a week later. Bradford pear pollen then made a concerted effort to coat the entire area about an eighth of an inch deep (which can't really have helped with the convention-crud, see above). A bit after that, violets, and the next day daffodils and dandelions. Then the real flood of different things hit, so I stopped keeping track. Spring temperatures have come, and summer temps are poking at the door. My air-conditioning is working at the moment, hooray! There has also been rain.
Hmmm okay, there was more of course but whatever it was has gone from my head again; many of the 'oh, that's something I could add to the blog, let me remember that' things go away again after a day or two. Que sera, serape. Many books have of course come into my possession since January. Mua ha ha!
Finished: Kay - River of Stars; Walton - Among Others; Christopher - Seven Wonders; Hughes - Sharp;
Extended: Datlow & Windling (ed.) - Queen Victoria's Book of Spells;
Library: Grossman - The Magicians; Lackey - Magic's Promise;
fanfic & online:
have read Whateley Universe stories up to 4/14/13
shrewreadings - Adventure of the Knight's Hood, (Badger-verse) Badgering the Lawyers, Why SHIELD Legal Can't Have Nice Things, Badger,_Sett & Match, Socially Responsible Graffiti, The Rogers Movement, Structures,_Limitations,_Mergers,_and Acqusitions 1-5, Badgering Around the Christmas Tree 1-5; copperbadge - Free To Good Home, The Piecemaker, The End, The Most Amazing Things (Some Terrible Lie), Schoolboy, That's Why They Call It A Gift, Act of Redemption, Some Strange Race; scifigrl47 - Hollow Your Bones Like A Bird's 9; cleolinda/m15m - The Avengers In 15 Minutes
- Current Mood:meditative, with fries
Just gonna get the skeleton of this up, and the feet, and edit the gossip in later.
--Dave
Finished:
Jordan & Sanderson - A Memory of Light; Parks - Yamada Monogatari: Demon Hunter; Martin & Dozois (ed.) - Down These Strange Streets; Correia - Spellbound; Ahmed - Throne of the Crescent Moon; Tolkien - The Silmarillion; Berg - The Daemon Prism; Jamieson - Night's Engines; Card - Shadows in Flight; Sharon Green - Silver Princess,_Golden Knight, The Hidden Realms, Dark Mirror,_Dark Dreams, Wind Whispers,_Shadow Shouts, Game's End, Convergence, Competitions, Challenges, Betrayals, Prophecy, Intrigues, Deceptions, Destiny; MacAlister, Harper, Sims - The Undead In My Bed; Cole - Shadow Ops: Fortress Frontier; Tregillis - Bitter Seeds; Hobb - City of Dragons; Niven (cr.) - Man-Kzin Wars XIII; Briggs - Fair Game; Heyer - Cotillion, The Corinthian, Bath Tangle, They Found Him Dead, Powder and Patch, Sylvester,_or the Wicked Uncle, Charity Girl, Penhallow, No Wind Of Blame, Envious Casca, These Old Shades, Footsteps in the Dark; Powers - Declare, Last Call, Expiration Date, Earthquake Weather, Hide Me Among The Graves; Kim Stanley Robinson - The Years of Rice and Salt; Spider Robinson - Callahan's Crosstime Saloon, Time Travelers Strictly Cash, Callahan's Secret, Callahan's Lady, The Callahan Touch, Lady Slings the Booze, Callahan's Legacy, Callahan's Key, Mindkiller, Lifehouse, By Any Other Name, Time Pressure, User Friendly; Spider Robinson & Jeanne Robinson - Stardance, Starseed; Haldeman - Earthbound, Forever Free; Cross - Heart of Brass, Touch of Steel; Pearls Before Swine - Unsportsmanlike Conduct; Blackmoore - Dead Things; Galenorn - Haunted Moon; Pohl - The Reefs of Space, Starchild, Rogue Star; Laws - Blood of the City; Hendee & Hendee - Between Their Worlds; Hughes - Hell To Pay; Daniel - Guardian of Night; Somers - Trickster; Oliver (ed.) - Magic; Benson - the golden age of death; Britain - Blackveil; McGuire - Midnight Blue-Light Special; Kenner - Deja Demon, Demon Ex Machina; Horton (ed.) - Superheroes; Pratt - Liar's Blade; Marder - Tales of the Beanworld v.1 (Wahoolazuma!, 1-9), v.2 (A Gift Comes!, 10-21), v.3 (Remember Here When You Are There!), v.3.5 (collected shorts); Croshaw - Jam; Stephenson - REAMDE; Adams (ed.) - The Mad Scientist's Guide To World Domination; de Haven - It's Superman!; Rosenberg - Emile and the Dutchman, D'Shai, Hour of the Octopus; Dann & Dozois (ed.) - Dangerous Games; Battersby - The Corpse-Rat King; Lowder (ed.) - Astounding Hero Tales; Williams - Worldsoul; Gaiman - Anansi Boys, A Calendar of Tales; The Opus Library complete 2003-2008; Vaughn - Kitty Rocks the House; Turtledove - Opening Atlantis, The United States of Atlantis, Liberating Atlantis; Freer - Dog and Dragon; Modesitt - Princeps; Riley - Loads More Lies To Tell Small Kids; Adams & Cohen (ed.) - Oz Reimagined; Doctorow - Little Brother; Whates (ed.) - Solaris Rising 2; Lackey - Trio of Sorcery; Rothfuss - The Wise Man's Fear; Christopher - Empire State; Hunter - Blood Trade;
Extended:
Greenberg (ed.) - After the King; Guran (ed.) - Future Games; Rogers - Zorachus; Menzel (ed.) - Fundamental Formulas of Physics; Laws of Ascension (Mage:tA LARP); Stuper Powers Deluxe!; Pogo BonaFide Balderdash (v2. 1951-1952); Yu-Shan (tCoCFv.III), The Underworld (tCoCDv.Iv), Exalted Players' Guide, The Dragon-Blooded, Games of Divinity, Exalted 2E (Exalted); Fforde - Thursday Next; Doom Patrol - v.1 (crawling from the wreckage), v.2 (the painting that ate paris), v.3 (down paradise way), v.4 (musclebound), v.5 (magic bus), v.6 (planet love); Diablo III official strategy guide; Adventurer's Vault, Manual of the Planes (D&D3.5E); Best Editorial Cartoons of the Year 2013 ed.; The Outland Library complete 1989-1995; Time of Judgment (World of Darkness); The Book of Magecraft (AD&D2E); Keys to the Supernal Tarot (Mage: the Awakening); Dozois (ed.) - The Year's Best SF 29th Annual Collection; The Complete Peanuts 1987-1988;
Library:
Lackey - Redoubt, Arrows of the Queen, Arrow's Flight, Arrow's Fall; Hines - Libriomancer; Burton (ps. Hetley) - Powers; Wolfe - The Shadow of the Torturer, Nightside the Long Sun; Jemisin - The Killing Moon, The Shadowed Sun; Donaldson - The Runes of the Earth, Fatal Revenant, Against All Things Ending;
fanfic & online:
have read Whateley Universe stories up to 3/24/13
tree_and_leaf, Careers Advice,_or,_Marx Was A Friend Of Narnia, And After Darkness,_Light; hellseries, Attrition, Resilience I (A Door That Locks Behind You), Resilience II (They Can't Take That Away From Me), Resilience III (Unparalleled), Silently,_Invisibly, I'll Fly Away, Saved, Wire Mother,_Cloth Mother; Catherine Krahe, Walking Home; cleolinda, The Avengers In 15 Minutes; Chatoyance, Friendship is Optimal/Caelum est Conterrens; LinkHyrule5, Innocence; Mizuni-sama, Prince of the Dark Kingdom Books I-VI; scifigrl47's Toasterverse, Phil Coulson Is Not The Avengers' Public Relations Manager, PC Does Not Bake (And The Avengers Do Not Shop At IKEA Anymore), PC Is Not A SHIELD Recruiter, PC Can't Keep The Avengers Out Of Medical, SHIELD Has Paperwork For Everything, PC Does Not Take Attendance, PC Is Not The Avengers' Matchmaker (Or Their Style Consultant), Ghosts of Christmas Memory, PC Doesn't Work For Stark Industries, The Best of Life and Asgard, Things Unseen (That Are Captured On Film), Hollow Your Bones Like A Bird's 1-8 (Clint Barton's Guide To Avenger Watching), Dating The Long Way Around 1-6, Four (Or Five) Reasons For Kidnapping Tony Stark, The Act Of Creation Will Be Your Salvation, Ordinary Workplace Hazards,_Or SHIELD And OSHA Aren't On Speaking Terms, Some Things Shouldn't Be A Chore, Bedtime Stories and Nightmares, Secrets of the Toasterverse, Before the Storm,_There is Peace; Stiegler, The Gentle Seduction; vongroovy, Reflection; Fay, Small Fish; zeitgeist21st, Death and the Three Brothers; John Chu, The Water That Falls On You From Nowhere; Eliezer Yudkowsky, Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality (yes, again); so_shhy, Mission ID: CH041; copperbadge, Victory Bonds, Transfer Students, Better To Reign In Hell, Arms and the Man, Extremely Hot and Currently Female, After the End, American Patrol, Iron Men, Works No Longer In Progress,_2012, Fake Empires, Trickster, A Partial Dictionary Of The 21st Century By Captain Steve Rogers,_US Army, Epilogue, Moving The Furniture, Film Studies,_or,_Four Films About Captain America and One By Him, Secret Identities, Handler, Black AmEx, Homefront, The Photograph, Ironsides, Robot Trip, See You In Homeroom, Christkindlfuckup, The Tongues of Men and Angels, Devil Took the Soldier Boy, The Rational Mind, Investigating, The Secret Library, The Lost Chord; various (flyingmoose.org), The Lord of the ... whatever; Sir Poley, Harry Potter and the Natural 20; hestiajones, The Receding; PaxieAmor (I Know That You're In Love With Him), American Pie, Pink Carnation and a Pick-Up Truck, Dance Real Slow, The Day the Music Died, Superman Tonight, Portland State of Mind, Fucking Magical
--Dave
Finished:
Jordan & Sanderson - A Memory of Light; Parks - Yamada Monogatari: Demon Hunter; Martin & Dozois (ed.) - Down These Strange Streets; Correia - Spellbound; Ahmed - Throne of the Crescent Moon; Tolkien - The Silmarillion; Berg - The Daemon Prism; Jamieson - Night's Engines; Card - Shadows in Flight; Sharon Green - Silver Princess,_Golden Knight, The Hidden Realms, Dark Mirror,_Dark Dreams, Wind Whispers,_Shadow Shouts, Game's End, Convergence, Competitions, Challenges, Betrayals, Prophecy, Intrigues, Deceptions, Destiny; MacAlister, Harper, Sims - The Undead In My Bed; Cole - Shadow Ops: Fortress Frontier; Tregillis - Bitter Seeds; Hobb - City of Dragons; Niven (cr.) - Man-Kzin Wars XIII; Briggs - Fair Game; Heyer - Cotillion, The Corinthian, Bath Tangle, They Found Him Dead, Powder and Patch, Sylvester,_or the Wicked Uncle, Charity Girl, Penhallow, No Wind Of Blame, Envious Casca, These Old Shades, Footsteps in the Dark; Powers - Declare, Last Call, Expiration Date, Earthquake Weather, Hide Me Among The Graves; Kim Stanley Robinson - The Years of Rice and Salt; Spider Robinson - Callahan's Crosstime Saloon, Time Travelers Strictly Cash, Callahan's Secret, Callahan's Lady, The Callahan Touch, Lady Slings the Booze, Callahan's Legacy, Callahan's Key, Mindkiller, Lifehouse, By Any Other Name, Time Pressure, User Friendly; Spider Robinson & Jeanne Robinson - Stardance, Starseed; Haldeman - Earthbound, Forever Free; Cross - Heart of Brass, Touch of Steel; Pearls Before Swine - Unsportsmanlike Conduct; Blackmoore - Dead Things; Galenorn - Haunted Moon; Pohl - The Reefs of Space, Starchild, Rogue Star; Laws - Blood of the City; Hendee & Hendee - Between Their Worlds; Hughes - Hell To Pay; Daniel - Guardian of Night; Somers - Trickster; Oliver (ed.) - Magic; Benson - the golden age of death; Britain - Blackveil; McGuire - Midnight Blue-Light Special; Kenner - Deja Demon, Demon Ex Machina; Horton (ed.) - Superheroes; Pratt - Liar's Blade; Marder - Tales of the Beanworld v.1 (Wahoolazuma!, 1-9), v.2 (A Gift Comes!, 10-21), v.3 (Remember Here When You Are There!), v.3.5 (collected shorts); Croshaw - Jam; Stephenson - REAMDE; Adams (ed.) - The Mad Scientist's Guide To World Domination; de Haven - It's Superman!; Rosenberg - Emile and the Dutchman, D'Shai, Hour of the Octopus; Dann & Dozois (ed.) - Dangerous Games; Battersby - The Corpse-Rat King; Lowder (ed.) - Astounding Hero Tales; Williams - Worldsoul; Gaiman - Anansi Boys, A Calendar of Tales; The Opus Library complete 2003-2008; Vaughn - Kitty Rocks the House; Turtledove - Opening Atlantis, The United States of Atlantis, Liberating Atlantis; Freer - Dog and Dragon; Modesitt - Princeps; Riley - Loads More Lies To Tell Small Kids; Adams & Cohen (ed.) - Oz Reimagined; Doctorow - Little Brother; Whates (ed.) - Solaris Rising 2; Lackey - Trio of Sorcery; Rothfuss - The Wise Man's Fear; Christopher - Empire State; Hunter - Blood Trade;
Extended:
Greenberg (ed.) - After the King; Guran (ed.) - Future Games; Rogers - Zorachus; Menzel (ed.) - Fundamental Formulas of Physics; Laws of Ascension (Mage:tA LARP); Stuper Powers Deluxe!; Pogo BonaFide Balderdash (v2. 1951-1952); Yu-Shan (tCoCFv.III), The Underworld (tCoCDv.Iv), Exalted Players' Guide, The Dragon-Blooded, Games of Divinity, Exalted 2E (Exalted); Fforde - Thursday Next; Doom Patrol - v.1 (crawling from the wreckage), v.2 (the painting that ate paris), v.3 (down paradise way), v.4 (musclebound), v.5 (magic bus), v.6 (planet love); Diablo III official strategy guide; Adventurer's Vault, Manual of the Planes (D&D3.5E); Best Editorial Cartoons of the Year 2013 ed.; The Outland Library complete 1989-1995; Time of Judgment (World of Darkness); The Book of Magecraft (AD&D2E); Keys to the Supernal Tarot (Mage: the Awakening); Dozois (ed.) - The Year's Best SF 29th Annual Collection; The Complete Peanuts 1987-1988;
Library:
Lackey - Redoubt, Arrows of the Queen, Arrow's Flight, Arrow's Fall; Hines - Libriomancer; Burton (ps. Hetley) - Powers; Wolfe - The Shadow of the Torturer, Nightside the Long Sun; Jemisin - The Killing Moon, The Shadowed Sun; Donaldson - The Runes of the Earth, Fatal Revenant, Against All Things Ending;
fanfic & online:
have read Whateley Universe stories up to 3/24/13
tree_and_leaf, Careers Advice,_or,_Marx Was A Friend Of Narnia, And After Darkness,_Light; hellseries, Attrition, Resilience I (A Door That Locks Behind You), Resilience II (They Can't Take That Away From Me), Resilience III (Unparalleled), Silently,_Invisibly, I'll Fly Away, Saved, Wire Mother,_Cloth Mother; Catherine Krahe, Walking Home; cleolinda, The Avengers In 15 Minutes; Chatoyance, Friendship is Optimal/Caelum est Conterrens; LinkHyrule5, Innocence; Mizuni-sama, Prince of the Dark Kingdom Books I-VI; scifigrl47's Toasterverse, Phil Coulson Is Not The Avengers' Public Relations Manager, PC Does Not Bake (And The Avengers Do Not Shop At IKEA Anymore), PC Is Not A SHIELD Recruiter, PC Can't Keep The Avengers Out Of Medical, SHIELD Has Paperwork For Everything, PC Does Not Take Attendance, PC Is Not The Avengers' Matchmaker (Or Their Style Consultant), Ghosts of Christmas Memory, PC Doesn't Work For Stark Industries, The Best of Life and Asgard, Things Unseen (That Are Captured On Film), Hollow Your Bones Like A Bird's 1-8 (Clint Barton's Guide To Avenger Watching), Dating The Long Way Around 1-6, Four (Or Five) Reasons For Kidnapping Tony Stark, The Act Of Creation Will Be Your Salvation, Ordinary Workplace Hazards,_Or SHIELD And OSHA Aren't On Speaking Terms, Some Things Shouldn't Be A Chore, Bedtime Stories and Nightmares, Secrets of the Toasterverse, Before the Storm,_There is Peace; Stiegler, The Gentle Seduction; vongroovy, Reflection; Fay, Small Fish; zeitgeist21st, Death and the Three Brothers; John Chu, The Water That Falls On You From Nowhere; Eliezer Yudkowsky, Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality (yes, again); so_shhy, Mission ID: CH041; copperbadge, Victory Bonds, Transfer Students, Better To Reign In Hell, Arms and the Man, Extremely Hot and Currently Female, After the End, American Patrol, Iron Men, Works No Longer In Progress,_2012, Fake Empires, Trickster, A Partial Dictionary Of The 21st Century By Captain Steve Rogers,_US Army, Epilogue, Moving The Furniture, Film Studies,_or,_Four Films About Captain America and One By Him, Secret Identities, Handler, Black AmEx, Homefront, The Photograph, Ironsides, Robot Trip, See You In Homeroom, Christkindlfuckup, The Tongues of Men and Angels, Devil Took the Soldier Boy, The Rational Mind, Investigating, The Secret Library, The Lost Chord; various (flyingmoose.org), The Lord of the ... whatever; Sir Poley, Harry Potter and the Natural 20; hestiajones, The Receding; PaxieAmor (I Know That You're In Love With Him), American Pie, Pink Carnation and a Pick-Up Truck, Dance Real Slow, The Day the Music Died, Superman Tonight, Portland State of Mind, Fucking Magical
Another year, another blog entry. ...Just kidding, I'm gonna try to be a little more frequent than THAT. Livejournal's having issues right now, so I'm just gonna get this up here and edit it later.
I've survived the chorus' Christmas show, and a couple singouts, and a checkup appointment, and my regimen of pills, and the food I've eaten, and the weather (which has so far inexplicably failed to snow), and discussions with friends, and at least one predicted apocalypse. So I guess 2012 turned out not too unsatisfactorily. My sister and dad survived The Storm Of The Century, and my sister got her power back after only a week. My brother has apparently moved, but I did get his new address. Their bookstore appears to still be going strong, yay! hmm, and appears to have a press release copy-pasted about the benefits of partnering with Kobo - I thought that had gone under along with Borders? Appears not. Election Day ended up well, though nerve-rackingly close. (I never would have guessed before this year that the Republican Party would make one of its aims getting half the country to vote for a Mormon; we must be in the future again. It just doesn't seem like them.) Christmas was quiet, I spent it mostly at home, and got to do what I wanted to do, and after it the Christmas music stopped! YAY! And I've ordered a second pair of orthopedic shoes so that I'm not just wearing these same ones every day. Off to Subway now, assuming this edit posts.
Finished:
Rain, Samantha Moon (Moon Dance/Vampire Moon/American Vampire/Moon Child/Christmas Moon); Bishop, Gardner, & Francis, Stranded; Gaiman, American Gods; Saintcrow, The Iron Wyrm Affair; Falkner, A Lady and Her Magic; Galenorn, Shadow Rising; Huff, The Wild Ways; Resnick, Polterheist; Monk, Magic for a Price; Williams, Shadowheart; Strahan (ed.), Edge of Infinity; Chan, Heaven to Wudang; Hearne, Trapped; Bujold, Captain Vorpatril's Alliance; Spoor, Phoenix Rising; Kowal, Shades of Milk and Honey; Heyer, The Unfinished Clue, The Reluctant Widow, The Masqueraders, Friday's Child, Faro's Daughter, False Colours, Lady of Quality, Black Sheep, Why Shoot a Butler?, Frederica, The Foundling, The Convenient Marriage, Cousin Kate, The Unknown Ajax, The Black Moth, Regency Buck, The Nonesuch; Andrews, Steel's Edge; Abraham, An Autumn War, The Price of Spring; Alexander, Moonshifted; Lyle, The Merchant of Dreams; Harper, The Dragon Men; Robins, The Stone War; Reichert, Isaac Asimov's I,_Robot: to protect; Petrucha, Dead Mann Running; Lackey (ed.), Elemental Magic; Koch, Alien vs. Alien; Wellman, The Beyonders; Roberson, Sword-Born, Sword-Sworn; McCullough, Crossed Blades; Friedman, Legacy of Kings; Zahn, Cobra Gamble; Rawn, Touchstone; Green, The Bride Wore Black Leather; McDevitt, Time Travelers Never Die; Brunner, The Compleat Traveller in Black; Butcher, Cold Days; Nye, Robert Asprin's Myth-Quoted; West, Battle;
(Extended:)
Adams (ed.), Epic: legends of fantasy; Dilbert, I Can't Remember If We're Cheap Or Smart; Pearls Before Swine, Pearls Freaks the #*%# Out; Savant & Sorcerer, Oadenol's Codex, The White Treatise/The Black Treatise, The Compass of Celestial Directions,_v.II -- The Wyld, The Roll of Glorious Divinity II (Exalted); Get Fuzzy, Loserpalooza, The Stinking; Fox Trot, Jasotron: 2012; Monster Compendium: Monsters of Faerun, Sword & Fist (D&D3E); Zits, Triple Shot Double-Pump No Whip Zits; Hartwell & Weisman (ed.), The Sword & Sorcery Anthology; Cul-de-Sac, Team Cul-de-Sac; Hark! A Vagrant; Harris & Kelner (ed.), Home Improvement Undead Edition; Heyer, an infamous army
(library) Stross, The Apocalypse Codex; Modesitt, Princeps; kollin & kollin, the unincorporated future; Baker, Gods and Pawns; Nix, Sabriel, Lirael, Abhorsen
Fanfiction, e-, & web:
have read Whateley Universe stories up to 1/1/13
Oak (theleaveswant), From First Principles 1,2 (Contrary Advisor, Show Your Work); Sir Poley, Harry Potter and the Natural 20 ch. 1-26; sarahtales, Peter the Magnificent & Caspian the Super Fine; Griffith, An Unexpected Gift; docfuture, Flicker tumblr series; Sam Hughes, Fine Structure; hellseries, The King's Roads
Moran - Jack-O-Lantern Girl; Ford - Winter Solstice,_Camelot Station; King Boreas and the Vulcans
--Dave
I've survived the chorus' Christmas show, and a couple singouts, and a checkup appointment, and my regimen of pills, and the food I've eaten, and the weather (which has so far inexplicably failed to snow), and discussions with friends, and at least one predicted apocalypse. So I guess 2012 turned out not too unsatisfactorily. My sister and dad survived The Storm Of The Century, and my sister got her power back after only a week. My brother has apparently moved, but I did get his new address. Their bookstore appears to still be going strong, yay! hmm, and appears to have a press release copy-pasted about the benefits of partnering with Kobo - I thought that had gone under along with Borders? Appears not. Election Day ended up well, though nerve-rackingly close. (I never would have guessed before this year that the Republican Party would make one of its aims getting half the country to vote for a Mormon; we must be in the future again. It just doesn't seem like them.) Christmas was quiet, I spent it mostly at home, and got to do what I wanted to do, and after it the Christmas music stopped! YAY! And I've ordered a second pair of orthopedic shoes so that I'm not just wearing these same ones every day. Off to Subway now, assuming this edit posts.
Finished:
Rain, Samantha Moon (Moon Dance/Vampire Moon/American Vampire/Moon Child/Christmas Moon); Bishop, Gardner, & Francis, Stranded; Gaiman, American Gods; Saintcrow, The Iron Wyrm Affair; Falkner, A Lady and Her Magic; Galenorn, Shadow Rising; Huff, The Wild Ways; Resnick, Polterheist; Monk, Magic for a Price; Williams, Shadowheart; Strahan (ed.), Edge of Infinity; Chan, Heaven to Wudang; Hearne, Trapped; Bujold, Captain Vorpatril's Alliance; Spoor, Phoenix Rising; Kowal, Shades of Milk and Honey; Heyer, The Unfinished Clue, The Reluctant Widow, The Masqueraders, Friday's Child, Faro's Daughter, False Colours, Lady of Quality, Black Sheep, Why Shoot a Butler?, Frederica, The Foundling, The Convenient Marriage, Cousin Kate, The Unknown Ajax, The Black Moth, Regency Buck, The Nonesuch; Andrews, Steel's Edge; Abraham, An Autumn War, The Price of Spring; Alexander, Moonshifted; Lyle, The Merchant of Dreams; Harper, The Dragon Men; Robins, The Stone War; Reichert, Isaac Asimov's I,_Robot: to protect; Petrucha, Dead Mann Running; Lackey (ed.), Elemental Magic; Koch, Alien vs. Alien; Wellman, The Beyonders; Roberson, Sword-Born, Sword-Sworn; McCullough, Crossed Blades; Friedman, Legacy of Kings; Zahn, Cobra Gamble; Rawn, Touchstone; Green, The Bride Wore Black Leather; McDevitt, Time Travelers Never Die; Brunner, The Compleat Traveller in Black; Butcher, Cold Days; Nye, Robert Asprin's Myth-Quoted; West, Battle;
(Extended:)
Adams (ed.), Epic: legends of fantasy; Dilbert, I Can't Remember If We're Cheap Or Smart; Pearls Before Swine, Pearls Freaks the #*%# Out; Savant & Sorcerer, Oadenol's Codex, The White Treatise/The Black Treatise, The Compass of Celestial Directions,_v.II -- The Wyld, The Roll of Glorious Divinity II (Exalted); Get Fuzzy, Loserpalooza, The Stinking; Fox Trot, Jasotron: 2012; Monster Compendium: Monsters of Faerun, Sword & Fist (D&D3E); Zits, Triple Shot Double-Pump No Whip Zits; Hartwell & Weisman (ed.), The Sword & Sorcery Anthology; Cul-de-Sac, Team Cul-de-Sac; Hark! A Vagrant; Harris & Kelner (ed.), Home Improvement Undead Edition; Heyer, an infamous army
(library) Stross, The Apocalypse Codex; Modesitt, Princeps; kollin & kollin, the unincorporated future; Baker, Gods and Pawns; Nix, Sabriel, Lirael, Abhorsen
Fanfiction, e-, & web:
have read Whateley Universe stories up to 1/1/13
Oak (theleaveswant), From First Principles 1,2 (Contrary Advisor, Show Your Work); Sir Poley, Harry Potter and the Natural 20 ch. 1-26; sarahtales, Peter the Magnificent & Caspian the Super Fine; Griffith, An Unexpected Gift; docfuture, Flicker tumblr series; Sam Hughes, Fine Structure; hellseries, The King's Roads
Moran - Jack-O-Lantern Girl; Ford - Winter Solstice,_Camelot Station; King Boreas and the Vulcans
--Dave
- Current Mood:harried
Well, the WoW login servers are down, so it looks like it's finally time to gather together all the data on these piles of read books and splatter it up here. Been a while, hasn't it? In that time, let's see... refilled several prescriptions; my part-time callcenter job started back up, slowly; ate many and varied substances; had a few singouts with the chorus; bought more books (but you knew that); tried to go to a midnight game release but got misinformed about what stores were doing it; went to Tunica, MS for a weekend for a barbershop convention, which was held _entirely_ inside a tall casino/hotel; discovered that no matter how good your air system, you can't get every bit of smoke from the casino out of the air; got a pair of stretchy orthotic actually-fitting-and-working SHOES - expensive but I think I'm going back for another two pairs in a month or so; had a cold for a while - not a flu, no fever or nausea...; got various body parts trimmed; and am adjusting to the cooler weather that arrived a week or so ago. The bottom edge of Sandy was apparently north of here, so we just got the cool air.
Finished:
Anthony, Well-Tempered Clavicle; Charlton, Spellbound; Kittredge, Soul Trade; Jacka, taken; McGuire, Ashes of Honor; Hughes, Clean; Green, Ghost of a Dream; Galenorn, Night Seeker; Wentworth (ed.), Writers of the Future v.XXVIII; Lamplighter, Prospero in Hell; Smith, Blood Spirits; Roberson, Daughter of the Lion, Flight of the Raven, A Tapestry of Lions, Sword-Maker, Sword-Breaker; Niven & Barnes, The Moon Maze Game; Chan, Earth to Hell, Hell to Heaven; Sperring, The Grass King's Concubine; Wright, Count To A Trillion; Harrison, A Perfect Blood; Modesitt, Scholar; Big Nate, BN Makes the Grade, All Work And No Play; Sagara, Cast In Peril; Erikson, Forge of Darkness; Banks, The Hydrogen Sonata; Holm, The Wrong Goodbye; Ballantine, Wrayth; Lackey, Changes; Jeter, Morlock Night; Meluch, The Ninth Circle; Hunter, Death's Rival; Drake & Lambshead, Into the Hinterlands; Tallerman, Giant Thief, Crown Thief; Bujold, The Curse of Chalion, Diplomatic Immunity, Cetaganda, Memory, Mirror Dance, Komarr, A Civil Campaign, Cryoburn; Quaid, Boyfriend from Hell; Sanderson, The Emperor's Soul, The Alloy of Law; Drake, Night & Demons; Strout, Alchemystic; Cul de Sac, The Mighty Alice; Daily & Davidson, The Law of Superheroes; Sedia (ed.), Bloody Fabulous; Adams (ed.), Armored; Wendig, Blackbirds; Chance, Fury's Kiss; Archer, Dark Light of Day; kollin & kollin, the unincorporated war, t.u. woman; Edward Eager, Half Magic; Diane Duane, So You Want To Be a Wizard?;
(Extended:)
Horton (ed.), The Year's Best SF & Fantasy 2010, TYBSF&F 2011, TYBSF&F 2012; Dragon's Dogma osg[*]; O'Rourke, On The Wealth of Nations; Peanuts, The Complete Peanuts 1985-1986; Strahan (ed.), The Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year v.2; Superiors 1: War and Honor, Superiors 2: Pleasures of the Flesh, Superiors 3: Hope and Prophecy, Superiors 4: Rogues to Riches (In Nomine); The Lunars, The Abyssals, The Roll of Glorious Divini(n)ty I (Exalted 2E); Diablo II: To Hell and Back, Touched by the Gods (D&D3E); WoW Dungeon Companion II; Forgotten Realms - Demihuman Deities (D&D2E); Kingdom Hearts 3D Dream Drop Distance osg; Dreams and Nightmares (Changeling: the Dreaming); Nobilis: Antithesis minibook 1i A Diary of Deceivers (Nobilis 3E); Immortal: the Invisible War (Immortal 1E); Reaves & Pelan (ed.), Shadows Over Baker Street; Colbert, America Again; WoW Mists of Pandaria osg
Fanfic, short stories, and Other:
Whateley Universe stories up to 10/31/12; Adina, Green Ice; FayJay, The Case of the Unwelcome Owl, Taking Liberties; perryvic, shewhoguards, This Is How The Universe Ends; hollycomb, Theories About Nuclear Winter; Holli Mintzer, Tomorrow Is Waiting; azar, From A World More Full of Weeping; oniongirl, Wizards in Winter; A Very Potter Musical; DM of the Rings; Bear, Faster Gun; Stross, A Tall Tail
--Dave
[*] official strategy guide
Finished:
Anthony, Well-Tempered Clavicle; Charlton, Spellbound; Kittredge, Soul Trade; Jacka, taken; McGuire, Ashes of Honor; Hughes, Clean; Green, Ghost of a Dream; Galenorn, Night Seeker; Wentworth (ed.), Writers of the Future v.XXVIII; Lamplighter, Prospero in Hell; Smith, Blood Spirits; Roberson, Daughter of the Lion, Flight of the Raven, A Tapestry of Lions, Sword-Maker, Sword-Breaker; Niven & Barnes, The Moon Maze Game; Chan, Earth to Hell, Hell to Heaven; Sperring, The Grass King's Concubine; Wright, Count To A Trillion; Harrison, A Perfect Blood; Modesitt, Scholar; Big Nate, BN Makes the Grade, All Work And No Play; Sagara, Cast In Peril; Erikson, Forge of Darkness; Banks, The Hydrogen Sonata; Holm, The Wrong Goodbye; Ballantine, Wrayth; Lackey, Changes; Jeter, Morlock Night; Meluch, The Ninth Circle; Hunter, Death's Rival; Drake & Lambshead, Into the Hinterlands; Tallerman, Giant Thief, Crown Thief; Bujold, The Curse of Chalion, Diplomatic Immunity, Cetaganda, Memory, Mirror Dance, Komarr, A Civil Campaign, Cryoburn; Quaid, Boyfriend from Hell; Sanderson, The Emperor's Soul, The Alloy of Law; Drake, Night & Demons; Strout, Alchemystic; Cul de Sac, The Mighty Alice; Daily & Davidson, The Law of Superheroes; Sedia (ed.), Bloody Fabulous; Adams (ed.), Armored; Wendig, Blackbirds; Chance, Fury's Kiss; Archer, Dark Light of Day; kollin & kollin, the unincorporated war, t.u. woman; Edward Eager, Half Magic; Diane Duane, So You Want To Be a Wizard?;
(Extended:)
Horton (ed.), The Year's Best SF & Fantasy 2010, TYBSF&F 2011, TYBSF&F 2012; Dragon's Dogma osg[*]; O'Rourke, On The Wealth of Nations; Peanuts, The Complete Peanuts 1985-1986; Strahan (ed.), The Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year v.2; Superiors 1: War and Honor, Superiors 2: Pleasures of the Flesh, Superiors 3: Hope and Prophecy, Superiors 4: Rogues to Riches (In Nomine); The Lunars, The Abyssals, The Roll of Glorious Divini(n)ty I (Exalted 2E); Diablo II: To Hell and Back, Touched by the Gods (D&D3E); WoW Dungeon Companion II; Forgotten Realms - Demihuman Deities (D&D2E); Kingdom Hearts 3D Dream Drop Distance osg; Dreams and Nightmares (Changeling: the Dreaming); Nobilis: Antithesis minibook 1i A Diary of Deceivers (Nobilis 3E); Immortal: the Invisible War (Immortal 1E); Reaves & Pelan (ed.), Shadows Over Baker Street; Colbert, America Again; WoW Mists of Pandaria osg
Fanfic, short stories, and Other:
Whateley Universe stories up to 10/31/12; Adina, Green Ice; FayJay, The Case of the Unwelcome Owl, Taking Liberties; perryvic, shewhoguards, This Is How The Universe Ends; hollycomb, Theories About Nuclear Winter; Holli Mintzer, Tomorrow Is Waiting; azar, From A World More Full of Weeping; oniongirl, Wizards in Winter; A Very Potter Musical; DM of the Rings; Bear, Faster Gun; Stross, A Tall Tail
--Dave
[*] official strategy guide
- Current Mood:
drained
Still alive, yeppers. And two percent older now, even! Time hums along. As does, once it was figured out that the issue this time was that the air filter was completely papered over with dust'n'stuff , my central air conditioning, huzzah!
Have had various small pithy observations occur to me over the last month or two, in the usual way. The only one that's survived this long is that while I knew Mountain Dew was experimenting with different colors - and the blue/berry one really isn't good, it has a taste slightly like scented soap - I was NOT aware that they were producing a variety with _ginseng_. ... ... No, I'm not making that up.
We appear to be mostly past the melt-Tennessee portion of our summer; some rains and thunderstorms came by, and things cooled down for a bit. It's creeping back up - 87 and sunny today - but it's not quite as bad as it was.
The end of September's gonna be busy for me; the new WoW expansion comes out, AND I'm headed off to Tunica MS for a few days for a barbershop convention, which I hope I have the stamina to last through, and I hope I remember to take a swimsuit along this time, AND there's two different overlapping WoW holiday events, all around the same time. Plus my part-time job may have hours for me again by that time. At least after that we'll know how viable our quartet is.
Finished - Gaiman, the Sandman vol. 1-10, the Sandman book of dreams, the Books of Magic, Endless Nights; Gaiman & Amano, The Dream Hunters; Gilman, Dragon Justice; Adams (ed.), Other Worlds Than These; Rowling, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone, HP&t Chamber of Secrets, HP&t Prisoner of Azkaban, HP&t Goblet of Fire, HP&t Order of the Phoenix, HP&t Half-Blood Prince, HP&t Deathly Hallows; Kemp, The Hammer and the Blade; Swanwick, The Dragons of Babel; Adams, Pies and Prejudice; Hawke, The Lilliput Legion, The Hellfire Rebellion, The Cleopatra Crisis, The Six-Gun Solution; Hoyt, Thief of Shadows; Richardson, Downpour; Les Johnson & Jack McDevitt (ed.), Going Interstellar; Henderson - The People: No Different Flesh, Holding Wonder, The Anything Box, Pilgrimage; Robertson, Hallowed Circle, Arcane Circle, Fatal Circle, Wicked Circle; Lee & Miller, Ghost Ship; Vaughn, Kitty Steals the Show; Weber, How Firm a Foundation; Goodkind, The Omen Machine; Jamieson, Roil; Andrews, Gunmetal Magic; McCullough, Broken Blade, Bared Blade; Jones, Archer's Goon, Deep Secret, Howl's Moving Castle; Roberson, Shapechangers, The Song of Homana, Legacy of the Sword, Track of the White Wolf, A Pride of Princes, Sword-Dancer, Sword-Singer; Holzner, Darklands; Deas, The King of the Crags; Kerr, Love on the Run; Aaronovitch, Whispers Underground; Jean Johnson, An Officer's Duty
(Extended) - Fforde, Lost in a Good Book, The Well of Lost Plots; Onion Sports the Ecstasy of Defeat; the Manual of Exalted Power: Infernals, The Compass of Celestial Directions vol. V - Malfeas, Glories of the Most High, The Sidereals (Exalted); Legends & Lore (AD&D2E); Yudkowsky, HP&tMoR, again; Arabella, The Very Secret Diary; Watt-Evans, The Sorcerer's Widow; Forgotten Realms Campaign Setting (D&D3E)
Watched - A Very Potter Musical
Have had various small pithy observations occur to me over the last month or two, in the usual way. The only one that's survived this long is that while I knew Mountain Dew was experimenting with different colors - and the blue/berry one really isn't good, it has a taste slightly like scented soap - I was NOT aware that they were producing a variety with _ginseng_. ... ... No, I'm not making that up.
We appear to be mostly past the melt-Tennessee portion of our summer; some rains and thunderstorms came by, and things cooled down for a bit. It's creeping back up - 87 and sunny today - but it's not quite as bad as it was.
The end of September's gonna be busy for me; the new WoW expansion comes out, AND I'm headed off to Tunica MS for a few days for a barbershop convention, which I hope I have the stamina to last through, and I hope I remember to take a swimsuit along this time, AND there's two different overlapping WoW holiday events, all around the same time. Plus my part-time job may have hours for me again by that time. At least after that we'll know how viable our quartet is.
Finished - Gaiman, the Sandman vol. 1-10, the Sandman book of dreams, the Books of Magic, Endless Nights; Gaiman & Amano, The Dream Hunters; Gilman, Dragon Justice; Adams (ed.), Other Worlds Than These; Rowling, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone, HP&t Chamber of Secrets, HP&t Prisoner of Azkaban, HP&t Goblet of Fire, HP&t Order of the Phoenix, HP&t Half-Blood Prince, HP&t Deathly Hallows; Kemp, The Hammer and the Blade; Swanwick, The Dragons of Babel; Adams, Pies and Prejudice; Hawke, The Lilliput Legion, The Hellfire Rebellion, The Cleopatra Crisis, The Six-Gun Solution; Hoyt, Thief of Shadows; Richardson, Downpour; Les Johnson & Jack McDevitt (ed.), Going Interstellar; Henderson - The People: No Different Flesh, Holding Wonder, The Anything Box, Pilgrimage; Robertson, Hallowed Circle, Arcane Circle, Fatal Circle, Wicked Circle; Lee & Miller, Ghost Ship; Vaughn, Kitty Steals the Show; Weber, How Firm a Foundation; Goodkind, The Omen Machine; Jamieson, Roil; Andrews, Gunmetal Magic; McCullough, Broken Blade, Bared Blade; Jones, Archer's Goon, Deep Secret, Howl's Moving Castle; Roberson, Shapechangers, The Song of Homana, Legacy of the Sword, Track of the White Wolf, A Pride of Princes, Sword-Dancer, Sword-Singer; Holzner, Darklands; Deas, The King of the Crags; Kerr, Love on the Run; Aaronovitch, Whispers Underground; Jean Johnson, An Officer's Duty
(Extended) - Fforde, Lost in a Good Book, The Well of Lost Plots; Onion Sports the Ecstasy of Defeat; the Manual of Exalted Power: Infernals, The Compass of Celestial Directions vol. V - Malfeas, Glories of the Most High, The Sidereals (Exalted); Legends & Lore (AD&D2E); Yudkowsky, HP&tMoR, again; Arabella, The Very Secret Diary; Watt-Evans, The Sorcerer's Widow; Forgotten Realms Campaign Setting (D&D3E)
Watched - A Very Potter Musical
- Current Mood:nocturnal
Short this time. Too hot. Broke TN records last week with 105 degrees F. Air-conditioning working in apartment and car, as much as it can anyway. New tenant downstairs, it seems; nobody new upstairs; newspapers not disappearing, so yay. Gained 10 pounds but luckily it seems to have been temporary, back to 220# or so. New blood-pressure med was not for blood pressure as such, but rather to help protect kidneys and help with leg/foot water retention, and it's doing the latter about as well as anything else did, which is to say not. Not suffering any of the potentially deadly side-effects listed as far as I can tell. yay! Had singouts here and there; most recent one was outside, in about 95-degree heat plus sun, and the directors silently agreed that fifteen minutes was more than enough, so we didn't actually melt. Appear to not have fallen victim to to-day's announced midnight virus; yay!
Okay, three cheers means I'm done. Noodles waiting!
--Dave
Finished - Roberson, The Dragon's Nine Sons, Book of Secrets; Hawke, The Ivanhoe Gambit, The Timekeeper Conspiracy, The Pimpernel Plot, The Zenda Vendetta, The Nautilus Sanction, The Khyber Connection, The Argonaut Affair, The Dracula Caper; Price, Grave Memory; van Name (ed.), The Wild Side; Pang, A Brush of Darkness, A Sliver of Shadow; Grahame-Smith, Abraham Lincoln,_Vampire Hunter; Stross, Rule 34; Scott, Shadow Kin, Blood Kin; Bennett, Summoning the Night; Rothfuss, The Name of the Wind; Martin (ed.), Wild Cards I; Gross, Prince of Wolves; Sucharitkul, The Darkling Wind; Alexander, Nightshifted; Jacka, Cursed; Battis, Bleeding Out; Cline, Ready Player One; Elrod (ed.), Hex Appeal; Pratchett & Baxter, The Long Earth; Harris, Deadlocked; Heyer, The Talisman Ring; Esslemont, Orb Sceptre Throne; Hamilton, Galenorn, Liu, & Shinn, Never After
Extended: Richard (ed.), The King of the Cats and other feline fairy tales; Nobilis (2ed); Nobilis v1: A Field Guide to the Powers (3ed); Horton & Wallace (ed.), robots the recent a.i.; Al-Kabor's Arcana (EQ RPG)
Okay, three cheers means I'm done. Noodles waiting!
--Dave
Finished - Roberson, The Dragon's Nine Sons, Book of Secrets; Hawke, The Ivanhoe Gambit, The Timekeeper Conspiracy, The Pimpernel Plot, The Zenda Vendetta, The Nautilus Sanction, The Khyber Connection, The Argonaut Affair, The Dracula Caper; Price, Grave Memory; van Name (ed.), The Wild Side; Pang, A Brush of Darkness, A Sliver of Shadow; Grahame-Smith, Abraham Lincoln,_Vampire Hunter; Stross, Rule 34; Scott, Shadow Kin, Blood Kin; Bennett, Summoning the Night; Rothfuss, The Name of the Wind; Martin (ed.), Wild Cards I; Gross, Prince of Wolves; Sucharitkul, The Darkling Wind; Alexander, Nightshifted; Jacka, Cursed; Battis, Bleeding Out; Cline, Ready Player One; Elrod (ed.), Hex Appeal; Pratchett & Baxter, The Long Earth; Harris, Deadlocked; Heyer, The Talisman Ring; Esslemont, Orb Sceptre Throne; Hamilton, Galenorn, Liu, & Shinn, Never After
Extended: Richard (ed.), The King of the Cats and other feline fairy tales; Nobilis (2ed); Nobilis v1: A Field Guide to the Powers (3ed); Horton & Wallace (ed.), robots the recent a.i.; Al-Kabor's Arcana (EQ RPG)
- Current Mood: hot
Yes, it's been more than a month again. Not dead. Not bedridden or in hospital or in prison or mysteriously sent out of the country. Not forced to move to another state or in an inexplicable coma. Just ... never setting aside time to come here and do this. (And boy, see below, do the stacks of books-I've-read waiting to be inscribed here so I can sort them where they go remind me of this. Loom loom loom, they quietly project.)
Also, Diablo III coming out in the middle of May hasn't helped one bit with regards to my 'spare time to do stuff' budget. It's sort of futuristic to be apologizing to one piece of the Internet that things I'm doing on other pieces of it are keeping me away, so there is that...
The rosebush by my parking space has been mostly non-flowering this period. A week or two ago it put out one rose maybe halfway up, for a few days. The nonstop six-to-eight-blooms-at-a-time behavior has not been forthcoming. I don't know if it's the temperature, or the wrong kind of rain, or if it got pruned at just the wrong times, or what; it's not _dead_, it's growing new stem lengths and thorns and red tiny leaves that become bigger green ones, it just isn't blooming right now. Odd. (Actual inspection today shows it does have one bloom up.)
The transit of Venus came and went. The clouds cooperated here, and it was sunny for some time that evening, but I was not able to produce a usable image either with pinholed cardboard or with pairs of binoculars other chorus members had with them. I did see it in stages on the Internet, so there's that.
Let's see... used part of a Sears gift card from Xmas to buy some more socks, then finally did socks-and-underwear laundry yesterday so I'm set on that front for a while. Having to wear socks every time I go out works differently than the first fifteen or so years I've lived here, and I don't like the change but I have to cope with it, just like I have to cope with not being able to wear sandals/thongs/zoris any more because my feet aren't the right shape any more. Bah.
The tenants upstairs are gone away again. There's a certain amount of churn in this set of apartments, pretty much all the time, and usually a selection of empty ones to choose from, despite this being THE lowest-rental apartments, I believe, for their size in the area.
Found out on the 26th that I'd missed setting one (1) clock in my apartment forward for the time change. Disaster narrowly averted anyway. A few singouts for the chorus have come and gone; I was at the Memorial Day one, was not at the Mighty Musical Monday one because I had a doctor's checkup appointment that day, and was at the D-Day one just this weekend. (18 + 68 = 86; we're getting closer and closer to not having even the ones that lied about their age to sign up, any more... keep them in mind, you who remember.) We appear to have acquired a new baritone for the first time in several years. The chorus is having its usual summer slapstick scheduling issues with various people disappearing on vacation for various lengths of time...
Said checkup appointment took me off the diuretic I'd been on and put me back on the one I'd been on before it; from comments the doctor's made, I'm not sure he realizes this, and he seems to expect the change to have magical effects on the water retention in my feet and ankles, which it hasn't/won't - the change was made in the first place because this diuretic wasn't having said magical effects... He's also said that no, mineral-supplement potassium Will Not Work, it has to be the ten-times-as-expensive potassium chloride soggy pills. And he made noises about Ace bandages and showing me how to use them, so I have questions about are these supposed to go OVER the socks or UNDER them, etc.
And finally he called back Saturday, sounding somewhat panicked, about my blood sugar being "out of control" and that we had to discuss putting me on insulin injections... It's the same place it's been for the last round of testing or three, it's just not down in the 90-110 range where he wants it to be. In other words, it's roughly in control, just not where he thinks it should be; it's not zooming around wildly, I'm not falling into comas at odd moments (or at all, it's been shown previously that I do NOT go into high-sugar coma even around the 400 level), I'm not having pieces of me fall off or burst into suppuration. I've got an odd variant of dry skin, and nerve hypersensitivity, and one numb spot that hasn't gotten bigger in a few years... In sum, I'm living with what level I've got, and it's not making things better but it's also not making them worse other than very very very slowly, so _I_ do not have any particular push or motivation to jump up my involvement level with the drugs a whole nother level and start a regimen that'll destroy my ability to ever go OFF it again and take a big chunk of my remaining life away. ...And I'm to call to set up a time to talk to him, and this and the concerns above are what's gonna get talked about and he's not expecting this. Poor doctor...
...Anyway. All of the above SOUNDS fierce and un-wonderful, and life is actually just puttering along pretty much as it has been for the last few years. Things are different for me now than they were six or more years ago, from the factors of nerve pain affecting how I walk and how I can get to sleep, foot swelling affecting how I walk and what footwear I can use and how long it takes to put it on and how long at a time I can stay sat at the computer, and actual motivation to try to lose some weight. But I'm coping; I didn't used to have to cope at this level just to live, and I'd like to NOT have to - I'd get the rest of my free time back - but I can.
Oh, and my temp-agency contact called Monday to say my part-time job won't be using temps for the next several weeks - through start of August or so - or so they think right now, so they have no shifts for me as a result. No problem, I can coast for a while... but now I get to hope they do find they need us and start using us again afterwards (or sooner).
June has been warm, but none of it _yet_ has been as hot as the last weekend in May, where Saturday got to 90 degrees and Sunday to 93. But it's been in the 80s, with humidity, and I am glad my air-conditioning is currently working. (Niiiiice air-conditioning!) And that my car's is as well. And that I have a pair of gloves in the car to wear so I don't have to touch hot metal or plastic with my bare hands (see 'hyper-sensitivity', above).
Aaaaaand finally, more books read than you want to shake a stick at. And yes, this DOES include a complete reread of all the Hamilton novels and books she was the sole author on that I own, plus a few more, including her latest Anita Blake which came out just in time to be included and stacked on top before I got myself finally together to make this entry...
Finished: Hartwell & Cramer (ed.), Year's Best SF 17; Hanover, Darker Angels, Vicious Grace, Killing Rites; Pitts, Honeyed Words; Scott, Five-Twelfths of Heaven (finally!); Ballantine & Morris, The Janus Affair; Shevdon, Strangeness and Charm; Sinclair, Shadowborn; Shearin, All Spell Breaks Loose; Bledsoe, Dark Jenny; Lackey, Beauty and the Werewolf, Unnatural Issue; Drake, Out of the Waters; Lee, Carousel Tides; Martin (ed.), Fort Freak; Gustainis, Evil Dark, Hard Spell; Sagara, Lady of Mercy, Chains of Darkness,_Chains of Light; Frost, Forest Moon Rising; Jinks, The Genius Wars; Flint & Spoor, Threshold; Greenwood, Bury Elminster Deep; Flewelling, Casket of Souls; Green, For Heaven's Eyes Only; Hamilton, Guilty Pleasures, The Laughing Corpse, Circus of the Damned, The Lunatic Cafe, Bloody Bones, The Killing Dance, Burnt Offerings, Blue Moon, Obsidian Butterfly, Narcissus in Chains, Ardeur (*), Cerulean Sins, Strange Candy, Incubus Dreams, Micah, Danse Macabre, The Harlequin, Blood Noir, Skin Trade, Bullet, Hit List, Kiss the Dead, A Kiss of Shadows, A Caress of Twilight, Seduced by Moonlight, A Stroke of Midnight, Mistral's Kiss, A Lick of Frost, Swallowing Darkness, Divine Misdemeanors, Nightseer; Vinge, A Fire Upon the Deep, A Deepness in the Sky; Get Fuzzy, Survival of the Filthiest; Beckett, the Master of Heathcrest Hall
Extended: Part-Time Gods (Third Eye Games); Guildbook: Spooks & Oracles (Wraith tO); Strahan (ed.), The Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year v.6; Portals & Planes (FFG d20)
--Dave
(*) This turns out not to be a collection of short Hamilton stories like Strange Candy, but rather a collection of essays by various people _about_ the Anita Blake series. I am somewhat disappoint.
PS: I remembered what my PS: was going to be - it is firefly season here now! Yeah, people look and then dis them about not being SYNCHRIONIZED fireflies, but I assure you they're doing the best they can.
Also, Diablo III coming out in the middle of May hasn't helped one bit with regards to my 'spare time to do stuff' budget. It's sort of futuristic to be apologizing to one piece of the Internet that things I'm doing on other pieces of it are keeping me away, so there is that...
The rosebush by my parking space has been mostly non-flowering this period. A week or two ago it put out one rose maybe halfway up, for a few days. The nonstop six-to-eight-blooms-at-a-time behavior has not been forthcoming. I don't know if it's the temperature, or the wrong kind of rain, or if it got pruned at just the wrong times, or what; it's not _dead_, it's growing new stem lengths and thorns and red tiny leaves that become bigger green ones, it just isn't blooming right now. Odd. (Actual inspection today shows it does have one bloom up.)
The transit of Venus came and went. The clouds cooperated here, and it was sunny for some time that evening, but I was not able to produce a usable image either with pinholed cardboard or with pairs of binoculars other chorus members had with them. I did see it in stages on the Internet, so there's that.
Let's see... used part of a Sears gift card from Xmas to buy some more socks, then finally did socks-and-underwear laundry yesterday so I'm set on that front for a while. Having to wear socks every time I go out works differently than the first fifteen or so years I've lived here, and I don't like the change but I have to cope with it, just like I have to cope with not being able to wear sandals/thongs/zoris any more because my feet aren't the right shape any more. Bah.
The tenants upstairs are gone away again. There's a certain amount of churn in this set of apartments, pretty much all the time, and usually a selection of empty ones to choose from, despite this being THE lowest-rental apartments, I believe, for their size in the area.
Found out on the 26th that I'd missed setting one (1) clock in my apartment forward for the time change. Disaster narrowly averted anyway. A few singouts for the chorus have come and gone; I was at the Memorial Day one, was not at the Mighty Musical Monday one because I had a doctor's checkup appointment that day, and was at the D-Day one just this weekend. (18 + 68 = 86; we're getting closer and closer to not having even the ones that lied about their age to sign up, any more... keep them in mind, you who remember.) We appear to have acquired a new baritone for the first time in several years. The chorus is having its usual summer slapstick scheduling issues with various people disappearing on vacation for various lengths of time...
Said checkup appointment took me off the diuretic I'd been on and put me back on the one I'd been on before it; from comments the doctor's made, I'm not sure he realizes this, and he seems to expect the change to have magical effects on the water retention in my feet and ankles, which it hasn't/won't - the change was made in the first place because this diuretic wasn't having said magical effects... He's also said that no, mineral-supplement potassium Will Not Work, it has to be the ten-times-as-expensive potassium chloride soggy pills. And he made noises about Ace bandages and showing me how to use them, so I have questions about are these supposed to go OVER the socks or UNDER them, etc.
And finally he called back Saturday, sounding somewhat panicked, about my blood sugar being "out of control" and that we had to discuss putting me on insulin injections... It's the same place it's been for the last round of testing or three, it's just not down in the 90-110 range where he wants it to be. In other words, it's roughly in control, just not where he thinks it should be; it's not zooming around wildly, I'm not falling into comas at odd moments (or at all, it's been shown previously that I do NOT go into high-sugar coma even around the 400 level), I'm not having pieces of me fall off or burst into suppuration. I've got an odd variant of dry skin, and nerve hypersensitivity, and one numb spot that hasn't gotten bigger in a few years... In sum, I'm living with what level I've got, and it's not making things better but it's also not making them worse other than very very very slowly, so _I_ do not have any particular push or motivation to jump up my involvement level with the drugs a whole nother level and start a regimen that'll destroy my ability to ever go OFF it again and take a big chunk of my remaining life away. ...And I'm to call to set up a time to talk to him, and this and the concerns above are what's gonna get talked about and he's not expecting this. Poor doctor...
...Anyway. All of the above SOUNDS fierce and un-wonderful, and life is actually just puttering along pretty much as it has been for the last few years. Things are different for me now than they were six or more years ago, from the factors of nerve pain affecting how I walk and how I can get to sleep, foot swelling affecting how I walk and what footwear I can use and how long it takes to put it on and how long at a time I can stay sat at the computer, and actual motivation to try to lose some weight. But I'm coping; I didn't used to have to cope at this level just to live, and I'd like to NOT have to - I'd get the rest of my free time back - but I can.
Oh, and my temp-agency contact called Monday to say my part-time job won't be using temps for the next several weeks - through start of August or so - or so they think right now, so they have no shifts for me as a result. No problem, I can coast for a while... but now I get to hope they do find they need us and start using us again afterwards (or sooner).
June has been warm, but none of it _yet_ has been as hot as the last weekend in May, where Saturday got to 90 degrees and Sunday to 93. But it's been in the 80s, with humidity, and I am glad my air-conditioning is currently working. (Niiiiice air-conditioning!) And that my car's is as well. And that I have a pair of gloves in the car to wear so I don't have to touch hot metal or plastic with my bare hands (see 'hyper-sensitivity', above).
Aaaaaand finally, more books read than you want to shake a stick at. And yes, this DOES include a complete reread of all the Hamilton novels and books she was the sole author on that I own, plus a few more, including her latest Anita Blake which came out just in time to be included and stacked on top before I got myself finally together to make this entry...
Finished: Hartwell & Cramer (ed.), Year's Best SF 17; Hanover, Darker Angels, Vicious Grace, Killing Rites; Pitts, Honeyed Words; Scott, Five-Twelfths of Heaven (finally!); Ballantine & Morris, The Janus Affair; Shevdon, Strangeness and Charm; Sinclair, Shadowborn; Shearin, All Spell Breaks Loose; Bledsoe, Dark Jenny; Lackey, Beauty and the Werewolf, Unnatural Issue; Drake, Out of the Waters; Lee, Carousel Tides; Martin (ed.), Fort Freak; Gustainis, Evil Dark, Hard Spell; Sagara, Lady of Mercy, Chains of Darkness,_Chains of Light; Frost, Forest Moon Rising; Jinks, The Genius Wars; Flint & Spoor, Threshold; Greenwood, Bury Elminster Deep; Flewelling, Casket of Souls; Green, For Heaven's Eyes Only; Hamilton, Guilty Pleasures, The Laughing Corpse, Circus of the Damned, The Lunatic Cafe, Bloody Bones, The Killing Dance, Burnt Offerings, Blue Moon, Obsidian Butterfly, Narcissus in Chains, Ardeur (*), Cerulean Sins, Strange Candy, Incubus Dreams, Micah, Danse Macabre, The Harlequin, Blood Noir, Skin Trade, Bullet, Hit List, Kiss the Dead, A Kiss of Shadows, A Caress of Twilight, Seduced by Moonlight, A Stroke of Midnight, Mistral's Kiss, A Lick of Frost, Swallowing Darkness, Divine Misdemeanors, Nightseer; Vinge, A Fire Upon the Deep, A Deepness in the Sky; Get Fuzzy, Survival of the Filthiest; Beckett, the Master of Heathcrest Hall
Extended: Part-Time Gods (Third Eye Games); Guildbook: Spooks & Oracles (Wraith tO); Strahan (ed.), The Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year v.6; Portals & Planes (FFG d20)
--Dave
(*) This turns out not to be a collection of short Hamilton stories like Strange Candy, but rather a collection of essays by various people _about_ the Anita Blake series. I am somewhat disappoint.
PS: I remembered what my PS: was going to be - it is firefly season here now! Yeah, people look and then dis them about not being SYNCHRIONIZED fireflies, but I assure you they're doing the best they can.
- Current Mood:busy
