Enemy of Entropy

Maybe It Isn’t the Flu

6 March 2010, 11:50 pm. No Comments. Filed under Family, Fun, Health, Reading, Relationships.

Katie seems to be feel­ing a bit bet­ter. She slept through most of the day, and just got up a few min­utes ago (right at the end of my and Sam’s date) feel­ing like she could eat some­thing. Solid food, even! That’s progress. Since she didn’t have any antivi­rals, I don’t think this was really the flu. She should still be much sicker if it was. I’m not at all unhappy about that. Read on…

The Flu? But That’s Why We Had Shots!

5 March 2010, 5:23 pm. No Comments. Filed under Family.

My girl has the flu! And she had not one, but two flu shots this year! She caught it from her sweetie down at Geor­gia Tech, and if there’s a place in Geor­gia that’s more inter­na­tional than the air­port, that’s it. So I sup­pose it’s one of those strains that she wasn’t vac­ci­nated against. But still!

The young infec­tion vec­tor was given a pre­scrip­tion for Tam­i­flu, but I haven’t heard much more about his con­di­tion since the visit to the stu­dent clinic. She’s barely able to stay upright, but wanted to go down to stay with him (his mother appar­ently hav­ing offered her a ride dur­ing one of her trips to deliver a care pack­age). He kindly offered to take care of her so as to avoid infect­ing the bear and I. As sweet as that is, I don’t really think it wise to have the two sick kids depen­dent on each other, no mat­ter how good their inten­tions may be.

Yes, I am a Mean, Mean Mommy, but she’s sleep­ing too much to really protest. There’s also the fact that she can’t stand to speak much due to the sore throat. Of course, she’s curled up in our bed, which is the pre­ferred refuge for sick chil­dren, even when they’re All Grown Up at 19. Kyoshi is keep­ing a close eye on her, with breaks to check on the angle of sun­light in the kitchen and liv­ing room.

Microsoft Fail — MS Wireless Comfort Desktop 5000 Review and Tale of A Painful Free Upgrade

4 March 2010, 11:33 pm. No Comments. Filed under General.

That shouldn’t be worth post­ing about, but it took more work than it should have. Sum­mary: I prob­a­bly should have stuck with Log­itech wire­less keyboard/​mouse com­bi­na­tions, because I didn’t have a prob­lem with the pre­vi­ous set I had and never had occa­sion to call their tech­ni­cal sup­port. But since I bought a Microsoft prod­uct, it was worth­while to hound them until they came through on their war­ranty, despite the fact that the expe­ri­ence was some­what painful.
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Book Review: By Blood We Live

3 March 2010, 8:00 am. No Comments. Filed under Reading.

By Blood We Live By Blood We Live by John Joseph Adams

My rat­ing: 4 of 5 stars
This thing is an enor­mous tome! I don’t know if it has been released in hard­back or not, but if it has, that ver­sion has to be anchor-​​worthy. I requested it from the library because Eliz­a­beth Bear and Sarah Mon­ette had sto­ries in it, and I’ll read pretty much any­thing either of those wor­thies pub­lish. I didn’t expect to care for most of the rest, and didn’t plan to do much more than flip through them.
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Review: A Free Man of Color

2 March 2010, 8:00 am. 2 Comments. Filed under Reading.

A Free Man of Color (Benjamin January, Book 1) A Free Man of Color by Bar­bara Hambly

My rat­ing: 4 of 5 stars
His­tor­i­cal fic­tion isn’t my favorite genre, but I’m much more will­ing to read it when it’s mixed with mys­tery. I’ve read some of Hambly’s work before and know her to be a fine writer, and I’d read good reviews of this series by peo­ple I respect, so I decided to give it a whirl.
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