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…

‘Partners in Necessity’ by Sharon Lee & Steve Miller

10 June 2009, 7:04 pm. Comments Off. Filed under Reading.

ETA: This oth­er­wise cryp­tic post was a response to a Plinky prompt that asked what book I’d take if I were called to jury duty today. I can’t imag­ine why their “share with blog” func­tion doesn’t include the prompt!

I wouldn’t worry too much, as I can be fairly sure that I’ll never be PICKED for jury duty. Last time, they asked, “Does any­body here have any prob­lem with uphold­ing ANY law?” I said yes (there are some really stu­pid laws on the books!) and was imme­di­ately dismissed.


Part­ners in Neces­sity is long, and it’s good “com­fort read­ing” for me (one of the few books I ever re-​​read).

If I were ever actu­ally put on a jury, though, I don’t think I could pos­si­bly carry enough books with me unless I had a Kindle.

Cur­rent Mood: (good) good

Jane Austen/​Other Book Recommendations?

4 April 2009, 3:18 am. 1 Comment. Filed under Reading.

Cur­rent Mood:Cool emoticon Cool

Um, I’m want­ing some­thing to read, and the libraries are being very slow about ful­fill­ing my hold requests, so I’m look­ing for old stuff that’s good and prob­a­bly on the library shelf just wait­ing to be loved. I think I might try some Jane Austen, as I recently real­ized that I never have, but the excerpts I’ve seen are wit­tier than I expected. I’m not fond of romances or “chick lit” or such things, which is where I’ve place her books.1

If I’m going to try them, where should I start? Any other authors/​books you think I should try?

I don’t care to read doom-​​filled, depress­ing sto­ries. There’s enough of that in the real world, and I can always go look at the news. I want to read about smart, like­able peo­ple doing inter­est­ing things while ban­ter­ing wit­tily. Humor is impor­tant, but goofy slap­stick non­sense looses me. I HATE HATE HATE “do some­thing obvi­ously stu­pid, try to get out of the result­ing mess” plots.

I’ve read Lois McMas­ter Bujold, thanks :-) Well, all the Vorkosi­gan uni­verse stuff, any­way. Her fan­tasy books have never inter­ested me, for some odd reason.

Thank you :-)

1 I think to some extent I got her all mixed up with the Brontës when I was a teen, and damned if I wanted more of that nonsense.

Cur­rent Mood: (mellow) mellow

Tired Now

12 March 2009, 10:26 pm. 1 Comment. Filed under Health, Kvetching, Reading.

I had a pain doc­tor appoint­ment last week, but wasn’t up to going. So Sam resched­uled it for me, and I headed across town today.

Appar­ently this was the day for “fit­ting in” every­body who has can­celed an appoint­ment in the last Goddess-​​knows-​​how-​​long, because I arrived to find no park­ing (even on the street in front of the prac­tice). Patience was rewarded, and I got a spot that opened up as some­one left, and was still 20 min­utes early for my appointment.

I was seen shortly before the woman who came in after me, after stop­ping to glare at me from her street­side park­ing space (hey, it wasn’t as if she had been in the lot wait­ing or any­thing!). Her appoint­ment was actu­ally 15 min­utes before mine, so I have no idea why they saw me first.

Still, I was very glad to have my a back-​​up ebook on my PDA, because it took over 2 hours to get out of there. They usu­ally run absolutely on-​​time, so I only had one “nor­mal” book with me, and I fin­ished it.1 That office is always so over­heated, so I was really dozy by the time I left.

Sam and I agreed that I had no busi­ness dri­ving very far, so I got some fruit and water and went to his work­place. I had a brief nap, then he was off work and we were off to fill my pre­scrip­tions. We com­mit­ted naugh­ti­ness by grab­bing pizza for din­ner, but it was yummy naughtiness.

This is the man’s “Old Farts” gam­ing night, when he meets up with some of his bud­dies and they play what­ever they can agree on. The girl is going out with friends to see Watch­men (again), so I think I may be going to bed early.

First, I need to close some tabs in my browser, but I wanted to share the links with you! (You’re SO lucky!)

Elf Detec­tion 101: How to find the hid­den folk of Ice­land.
Read the sto­ries on the Neb­ula bal­lot!
It’s Read An eBook Week! So cel­e­brate by down­load­ing some of the free eBooks listed on their site :-)

1 And then gifted it to some­one who had been wait­ing before me and was still unseen when I left, who kept moan­ing about hav­ing for­got­ten to bring a book.

Cur­rent Mood: (tired) tired

Urban Fantasy Poll/​Contest

13 January 2009, 3:52 pm. 1 Comment. Filed under Reading.

Like urban fan­tasy? Want to win a $25 gift cer­tifi­cate? Go vote in the Urban Fan­tasy Land Read­ers’ Choice Awards, then post a link from your own blog/​site.1

1 Con­test ends 30 Jan­u­ary 2009

Cur­rent Mood: (cheerful) cheerful
Cur­rent Music: Amina — “Dis Moi Pourquoi”

 

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