A good Friday morning
Apr. 29th, 2005 09:38 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
annathepiper+0: There is nothing quite like coming to your Friends list in the morning to find that one of your friends has, based on nothing more than your own ardent and vocal fandom, gone and bought herself a copy of Great Big Sea's Rant and Roar. *sniffles happily* Nothing like a little spreading of the Newfoundlander love to make a day start off right!
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jesshartley! I have now finally finished In Northern Twilight, and so has my friend Chad! He says to tell you it was excellent and the best of the Exalted novels he's read so far. Me, I had fun reading it too. A few things leapt out at me and twigged my Editing Mode, but this is what I get for being in Editing Mode right now. ;) I think you've got a very lyrical turn of phrase here and there all over the novel, which I definitely admire. And I was amused by the number of characters with anime hair.
+1.5: Speaking of Chad and books, I also had the pleasure of hawking Jim Butcher's Dresden Files at him. Must spread the Harry Dresden love, too!
+1.75: Speaking further of books, I zipped through T.F. Banks' The Thief-Taker last night, just because. It was amusing to read that not long after reading A Dangerous Mourning, since they are both period mysteries set in England (though the Monk books are in the Victorian era, and the Henry Morton books are Regency), and both involve heroes who are policemen of low birth who have made an effort to act as gentlemen. Henry Morton seems a rather earthier hero than William Monk, though, and I am amused that right out of the gate, Henry has an established relationship with a mistress. Banks' writing was very straightforward, sparse, and clear, and Henry Morton is likeable. I will probably buy the second book.
+2: I've been slowly building up on the weights workouts again, so far just working with a single ten-pounder in between the mad editing dash through the manuscript, but slowly adding more exercises and more reps to build back up to doing my full workouts. My arms are appreciating it, and so is my back, which has been significantly less cranky lately.
+3: One of the contractors on our team is about to scram as his contract is about up, so it looks like I'm going to be shifted over into testing on Longhorn, finally--though I'm supposed to be looking after the performance testing in the meantime as well. In that vein, I was brought in on an email thread where someone had been asking who was running the performance tests right now--and another person had warned that a contractor might not be able to identify as many issues with the tests as an FTE. I had the great satisfaction of being able to introduce myself and saying, "Hi! So here are the issues..."
+4: I think I will finish Chapter 17 today, finally. Whether I will make a dent in Chapter 18 will remain to be seen, as there is to be poker at Murkworks North this evening.spazzkat, llachglin, kathrynt, tinlail, lyricae, and wrog will all be converging upon our house. I will not be playing, as I do in fact need to edit, but I enjoy having folks around so I can listen in on what's going on.
+5:risu has started working her way through solarbird's Lost in Space DVD set. We've been watching them with her. Yay, cheesy Irwin Allen skiffy goodness, even if it does reek of 1965--er, uh, '1997'. ;)
Wednesday miles: 1.0
Thursday miles: 1.0
Miles out of Hobbiton: 92.21
Miles to Rivendell: 365.79
+1: Hey,
jesshartley! I have now finally finished In Northern Twilight, and so has my friend Chad! He says to tell you it was excellent and the best of the Exalted novels he's read so far. Me, I had fun reading it too. A few things leapt out at me and twigged my Editing Mode, but this is what I get for being in Editing Mode right now. ;) I think you've got a very lyrical turn of phrase here and there all over the novel, which I definitely admire. And I was amused by the number of characters with anime hair.+1.5: Speaking of Chad and books, I also had the pleasure of hawking Jim Butcher's Dresden Files at him. Must spread the Harry Dresden love, too!
+1.75: Speaking further of books, I zipped through T.F. Banks' The Thief-Taker last night, just because. It was amusing to read that not long after reading A Dangerous Mourning, since they are both period mysteries set in England (though the Monk books are in the Victorian era, and the Henry Morton books are Regency), and both involve heroes who are policemen of low birth who have made an effort to act as gentlemen. Henry Morton seems a rather earthier hero than William Monk, though, and I am amused that right out of the gate, Henry has an established relationship with a mistress. Banks' writing was very straightforward, sparse, and clear, and Henry Morton is likeable. I will probably buy the second book.
+2: I've been slowly building up on the weights workouts again, so far just working with a single ten-pounder in between the mad editing dash through the manuscript, but slowly adding more exercises and more reps to build back up to doing my full workouts. My arms are appreciating it, and so is my back, which has been significantly less cranky lately.
+3: One of the contractors on our team is about to scram as his contract is about up, so it looks like I'm going to be shifted over into testing on Longhorn, finally--though I'm supposed to be looking after the performance testing in the meantime as well. In that vein, I was brought in on an email thread where someone had been asking who was running the performance tests right now--and another person had warned that a contractor might not be able to identify as many issues with the tests as an FTE. I had the great satisfaction of being able to introduce myself and saying, "Hi! So here are the issues..."
+4: I think I will finish Chapter 17 today, finally. Whether I will make a dent in Chapter 18 will remain to be seen, as there is to be poker at Murkworks North this evening.
spazzkat, llachglin, kathrynt, tinlail, lyricae, and wrog will all be converging upon our house. I will not be playing, as I do in fact need to edit, but I enjoy having folks around so I can listen in on what's going on.+5:
risu has started working her way through solarbird's Lost in Space DVD set. We've been watching them with her. Yay, cheesy Irwin Allen skiffy goodness, even if it does reek of 1965--er, uh, '1997'. ;)Wednesday miles: 1.0
Thursday miles: 1.0
Miles out of Hobbiton: 92.21
Miles to Rivendell: 365.79