I don’t like loud holidays. I get nervous about all those explosions. There were random fireworks going off during the day today, too. At least they finished earlier last night than they do on New Year’s Eve! My baby girl…
Review: Hotter Than Hell
Hotter Than Hell, the latest “Hell” anthology is edited and has an introduction by Kim Harrison. I don’t know if the sexier trend is her choice, a response to market demands, or something else again. The anthology is thicker than…
Woof
I started reading Hotter Than Hell this morning, a follow-up anthology to Holidays Are Hell and Dates From Hell. Whoa–they just went way past paranormal romance to paranormal erotica. This is not a book to read when someone (especially an…
School & More Reading
Registration closes tomorrow, so I have to decide before the end of the day whether or not I’m taking classes for the summer semester or not. Bah. I want a break, but if I’m not in school my student loans…
Ooo, I Hate That!
I wrote a long post about stuff that was in the paper, hit Publish—and then found out that our internet service was down. And I couldn’t get the post back. Gah! I’ll figure out rewriting the post after I’m not…
What Was the Name of That Book?
I remember reading a book—no, a series—in the early 90s or so. The clearest memory I have is that there was some sort of drug that made anyone who took it “perfect”—healthy, beautiful, athletic, etc. It was also addictive after…
TotD: Carter Heyward on Love
Carter Heyward: Love, like truth and beauty, is concrete. Love is not fundamentally a sweet feeling; not, at heart, a matter of sentiment, attachment, or being “drawn toward.” Love is active, effective, a matter of making reciprocal and mutually beneficial…
Lawn Sanity!
I detest grass. I’m so allergic that I consider the stuff a personal attack. Beyond that, I’ve always considered all the money and energy that is put into inedible crops that aren’t even pretty to be a disgusting form of…
Tips and Tools for Working From Bed
I’ve never encountered this website before, but it was linked from a blog carnival, and the article is pretty good: Because Sitting up is for Suckers: 70+ Tools, Tips and Hacks to Work from Bed I still miss my laptop!…
What’s the Opposite of Speed? Slowth?
We’re supposed to have the highest-speed residential service available from Comcast, darn it. I will say that the service is much faster than anything we ever got on DSL.