Exercise, Firefly, Tolkien, and books
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cruisedirector to my Friends list! She tunes in after we yakked with one another over on russell_daily. ^_^
+1: I see that the squeeage for the Serenity trailer has commenced. And me without QuickTime installed on my work box. I shall have to view this shining bit of goodness when I get home, at which point I assure you that I will be joining in on the squeeage. Because dude, I have got to see this movie.
+2: I appear to have encouraged no less than four different people to take up the Eowyn Challenge:damara, solarbird, Scott who doesn't have an LJ account, and now llachglin, who is biking to work at Borg and who has piqued my interest in doing so too. Yay for the power of exercise and Tolkiengeekery!
+3: Okay, so I jumped off my planned book schedule and read A Dangerous Mourning, the second of Anne Perry's William Monk books. I think I'm getting to like how this series is as much about Hester as it is about Monk, and how the events of the first novel did have an effect on the events in this one. I really liked how this case was not solved a hundred percent happily--it gave the plot a bit more heft and realism than I'm accustomed to reading in many mystery novels, so yay for that. And I'm curious as to whether the changing circumstances of Monk's life as of this book will mean he's now escaped the conflict with Runcorn, or whether that's still going to affect him in the future. Looks like I'm in for the long haul on this series!
+3.5: But just to keep to my book schedule somewhat, I made a point of bringing Dragon and Phoenix with me to work today so I could read the rest of it on the bus to and from work. I'm finally in the last hundred pages, so I should be able to finish it up finally. I'm still not liking the book overall as much as I did the first one, just because it strikes me as having too much detail crammed in there and too many 'convenient' delays built into the plot to keep the characters from getting to where they need to go--but I must not be finding this a significant problem, since I am actually still reading the thing! I still really want to smack Raven around a few times, though.
+4: One of the good things about working on performance testing right now is that I can actually edit in between launching tests, and while I'm waiting for them to get done. I've made significant inroads on Chapter 17 in the last two days just because of this, even as I'm diligently recording the test results in my spreadsheet. Damned good thing I can multitask. Tonight, if I'm extra special virtuous, maybe I'll be able to finish this chapter up.spazzkat wants me to get done so we can have our marathon of Lost episodes to get Dara and me caught up; Dara wants me to get done so I can do the promised rigorous cleaning of the upstairs bathroom. ;) I'm tentatively hoping to get done by next weekend! Everybody wish me luck.
Monday miles: 1.0
Miles out of Hobbiton: 89.21
Miles to Rivendell: 368.79
cruisedirector to my Friends list! She tunes in after we yakked with one another over on russell_daily. ^_^+1: I see that the squeeage for the Serenity trailer has commenced. And me without QuickTime installed on my work box. I shall have to view this shining bit of goodness when I get home, at which point I assure you that I will be joining in on the squeeage. Because dude, I have got to see this movie.
+2: I appear to have encouraged no less than four different people to take up the Eowyn Challenge:
damara, solarbird, Scott who doesn't have an LJ account, and now llachglin, who is biking to work at Borg and who has piqued my interest in doing so too. Yay for the power of exercise and Tolkiengeekery!+3: Okay, so I jumped off my planned book schedule and read A Dangerous Mourning, the second of Anne Perry's William Monk books. I think I'm getting to like how this series is as much about Hester as it is about Monk, and how the events of the first novel did have an effect on the events in this one. I really liked how this case was not solved a hundred percent happily--it gave the plot a bit more heft and realism than I'm accustomed to reading in many mystery novels, so yay for that. And I'm curious as to whether the changing circumstances of Monk's life as of this book will mean he's now escaped the conflict with Runcorn, or whether that's still going to affect him in the future. Looks like I'm in for the long haul on this series!
+3.5: But just to keep to my book schedule somewhat, I made a point of bringing Dragon and Phoenix with me to work today so I could read the rest of it on the bus to and from work. I'm finally in the last hundred pages, so I should be able to finish it up finally. I'm still not liking the book overall as much as I did the first one, just because it strikes me as having too much detail crammed in there and too many 'convenient' delays built into the plot to keep the characters from getting to where they need to go--but I must not be finding this a significant problem, since I am actually still reading the thing! I still really want to smack Raven around a few times, though.
+4: One of the good things about working on performance testing right now is that I can actually edit in between launching tests, and while I'm waiting for them to get done. I've made significant inroads on Chapter 17 in the last two days just because of this, even as I'm diligently recording the test results in my spreadsheet. Damned good thing I can multitask. Tonight, if I'm extra special virtuous, maybe I'll be able to finish this chapter up.
spazzkat wants me to get done so we can have our marathon of Lost episodes to get Dara and me caught up; Dara wants me to get done so I can do the promised rigorous cleaning of the upstairs bathroom. ;) I'm tentatively hoping to get done by next weekend! Everybody wish me luck.Monday miles: 1.0
Miles out of Hobbiton: 89.21
Miles to Rivendell: 368.79