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…

I’m Allergic to Our Bedroom

20 August 2008, 11:55 pm. 5 Comments. Filed under Health, Home, Reading.

More specif­i­cally (I hope), some­thing in it. Not Sam, hap­pily, but every time I go in there, I’m all stuffed up within a few minutes.

We keep that room closed and have a win­dow a/​c unit in there, because the house a/​c just doesn’t keep up so well.1 I’m won­der­ing if there’s some­thing about the air not cir­cu­lat­ing to the rest of the house that’s caus­ing dust to set­tle in there?

The cat is sel­dom allowed in the room at all, and we don’t have any other pets. There aren’t any plants in the room.

We haven’t been using the air clean­ers, because I can only get their fil­ters by mail-​​order and just didn’t get around to get­ting new ones. I guess I need to order them and see if that helps.

Bah.

In nicer news, the girl and I went to the nice library today. I had gone through my “to-​​read” shelf at Good Reads and requested a bunch of books. More of them than I expected came through all at one time, where­upon I learned that they allow a max­i­mum of 75 books to be checked out at once. Whoops! I had to put two back.

I have plenty to read now, though!


1 We had to put a unit in Katie’s room, too – it really wasn’t fac­tored in to the ton­nage on the a/​c unit when some­one fin­ished a for­mer garage, and it doesn’t have enough ducts. Now we need one for the guest room.

Good Reads Migration Finished!

17 August 2008, 11:50 pm. Comments Off. Filed under Family, Geekery, Health, RPGs, Reading.

That was not pain­less at all. The import fea­ture is tetchy, at best. I had to go through the entire list of 1300+ books and fix their “book­shelf” assign­ments, and add some that just didn’t import at all. I had over 1400 books in Now Read­ing, and I haven’t quite fig­ured out why there are fewer books in Good Reads. Oh well. It’s pretty much done!

The dates I’d read books, my rat­ings, and my reviews did NOT trans­fer to Good Reads, which is highly annoying.

I was able to go through and update a bunch of books that I’ve read since NR stopped work­ing, and use the to-​​read cat­e­gory to request books from the library. As a result, there are 33 books await­ing pickup now, and another 61 pend­ing (mostly books that are really new or not yet avail­able). That doesn’t include the inter-​​library loan items I requested.1

Sam and I had bonus gam­ing time tonight. He’s stor­ing up brownie points before Dragon*Con. Katie, unfor­tu­nately, couldn’t sleep last night, then slept all day until about 11:30. Now she’s re-​​hydrating and get­ting some food now. I hope she can go back to sleep. She’s def­i­nitely hav­ing a fibro flare. :-(


1 I’m so tick­led that the library added a way to put in ILL requests online!

Books Books Books!

31 May 2008, 5:40 pm. 5 Comments. Filed under Reading.

My Big Fat Supernatural Honeymoon
Yes, the girl and I man­aged a library run (to the GOOD library) on Fri­day. It took more time and energy than expected, of course, but we got a bunch of very good books.

I read My Big Fat Super­nat­ural Hon­ey­moon last night, with much gig­gling. The sto­ries were a bit uneven (nor­mal for an anthol­ogy), but worth­while overall.

I espe­cially liked “Heo­rot,” the Harry Dres­den piece from Jim Butcher. I love the way he brings in mythol­ogy from so many dif­fer­ent cultures.

Kelly Armstrong’s “Stalked” was fun, too. Her were­wolves are just more wolfish than most, in my opinion.

P.N. Elrod’s “Her Mother’s Daugh­ter” wasn’t bad at all. I’ve obvi­ously missed some of her Jack Flem­ing nov­els, and I’m look­ing for­ward to catch­ing up.

I want to find some of Mar­jorie M. Liu’s longer works, as “Where the Heart Lives” isn’t the first of her short sto­ries that have impressed me. What’s even bet­ter is that WtHL is a total depar­ture from the ear­lier sto­ries I remember.

Bookcase Bedroom!

5 March 2008, 11:32 pm. 5 Comments. Filed under Home, Reading.



New tiles for the Uroko house

Orig­i­nally uploaded by akamé

I sup­pose it could be called a Book­case Tree, because of its iasic deis­ngn. It wouldn’t be the best choice of design for sleep­ing quar­ters for a claus­tro­phone lke me, and pro­crati­na­tors wpuld find it even harder to quit read­ing and go to sleep. I would love to have this for a lit­tle one

 

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