Author: Cyn

Cyn is Katie's mom, Esther's Mémé, and a technical professional. She lives in the Atlanta area with her life partner, Rick, and their critters.

Review: Sucker Punch by Laurell K. Hamilton

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2020-08-13

10:16 am

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Book Reviews

Sucker Punch (Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter #27)Suck­er Punch by Lau­rell K. Hamilton
My rat­ing: 3 of 5 stars

Bor­ing! If I had­n’t been hav­ing trou­ble find­ing enough to read, I would­n’t have fin­ished it. I thought there was too much talk­ing in Ser­pen­tine, but this vol­ume takes the cake. While Ani­ta is osten­si­bly in a small Michi­gan town because a the­ri­anthrope has been accused of a mur­der, the book main­ly serves as a vehi­cle for inter­ac­tions between her and Olaf. The end­ing is anti-cli­mac­tic and the vast amounts of dia­logue don’t move the plot along in the least.

Hap­pi­ly, there isn’t even one sex scene in this one. I fig­ure Hamil­ton must be respond­ing to the hordes of peo­ple who stopped read­ing because there was so much explic­it sex in the ear­li­er books.

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Poetry: Against Entropy

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2020-05-06

3:05 pm

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Poetry

By John M. Ford

The worm dri­ves heli­cal­ly through the wood
And does not know the dust left in the bore
Once made the table inte­gral and good;
And sud­den­ly the crys­tal hits the floor.
Elec­trons find their paths in sub­tle ways,
A mass­less eddy in a trail of smoke;
The names of lovers, light of oth­er days;
Per­haps you will not miss them. That ís the joke.
The uni­verse winds down. That ís how it ís made.
But mem­o­ry is every­thing to lose;
Although some of the col­ors have to fade,
Do not believe you’ll get the chance to choose.
Regret, by def­i­n­i­tion, comes too late;
Say what you mean. Bear wit­ness. Iterate.

More Changes to the Site

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2020-05-06

12:02 pm

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Geekery

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Okay, I’ve fin­ished mov­ing the mate­r­i­al from my cross-stitch pat­tern, home edu­ca­tion, rela­tion­ships and com­mu­ni­ty, and fibromyal­gia sites. Woof! Now I just have this site, my port­fo­lio site and Rick­’s stub of a site to maintain. 

I had a new theme that I real­ly liked for this site, but Google’s search con­sole threw a fit about click­able items being too close togeth­er for it to work well on mobile devices, so now there’s a dif­fer­ent theme. For now. I’m not too hap­py with the mobile nav­i­ga­tion menu on this theme, because it throws all the pages in one long list instead of show­ing just the top pages. I’ll deal with it ’til I find some­thing bet­ter, though.

I’ve made a lit­tle progress in get­ting more quotes into the data­base, but it will prob­a­bly take years to get that back to where it was.

What happened to the quotes?

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2020-04-29

2:17 pm

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Announcement, Quotations

At some point, all of the many, many thou­sands of quo­ta­tions that were stored on my blog went 404. That’s high­ly annoy­ing. I have many more, but it’s going to take a lot of work to get them uploaded. The first file I came across in my archives was all about choco­late, so that’s all that’s in the data­base at the moment. (I do like choco­late, but not to the exclu­sion of all else!) I’ll work on get­ting the oth­ers put in place after I do the more urgent site updates.
Edit­ed to add: Ack! I found an old com­ment that said there had been 13,064 quotes in the data­base back in 2008! I don’t think I have THAT many in my oth­er files!

Moving Things Around

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2020-04-26

5:57 pm

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Announcement

I’m tired of main­tain­ing ump­ty-lev­en web sites, so I’m mov­ing things off my sub­sidiary sites and back to this one. There may be some odd­i­ties and bro­ken links here and there for a bit as a result. I’m try­ing to update a lot of things as I go, so it’s going to take some time to com­plete this project.