Sunday pre-editing stuff
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xelona and irysangel, who are now reading my journal! Glad to see you stopping by.
+1: I have now finished Kim Harrison's Dead Witch Walking. Not bad at all, though it's very strange to be reading a bunch of urban fantasies back to back and seeing all the small variations on how authors do things: vampires, werewolves, witches, etc. Ms. Harrison does a couple of things I disagree with, but on the whole her book was fun and I'll go buy the next one. She has a very Jim-Butcher-esque flavor to her, and that's a good thing. I'm also amused that her heroine seems to be bi and hasn't admitted it yet, but we'll have to see where that goes. I have, however, also resolved that I will not be having vampires anywhere in the Faerie Blood books. Everybody does vampires.
+2: Friday night,solarbird, spazzkat, llachglin, kathrynt and I all went to see The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. Picoreview: fun and fluffy, not much substance. It's been long enough since I've read the books that I have no real clear memory of most of Adams' humor, but I did catch at least one spot where they tried to condense down some of his Funny--quite unsuccessfully. You just can't do the Reader's Digest Condensed Version of Douglas Adams. That said, I did enjoy the movie overall.
-3: Yesterday afternoon, my stupid cat decided to use my backpack as her stand-in litter box. This may be a symptom of, again, my not having changed the stupid litter box fast enough (I did, of course, immediately change it after cleaning up after the cat). But it may also be a sign of something else, and fortunately I'd just made an appointment for her to have her annual vet exam. Hopefully the vet will be able to tell me if she's got something going on that might be causing her to urinate inappropriately; she may just be getting extremely old. Sigh.
+4: Last night Dara and I went out to dinner withelflad and his new sweetie Jeff, who are in town on a visit. We had pleasant conversation and tasty sushi at our favorite sushi place, and then we went to the Dilettante on Capitol Hill and had more pleasant conversation and tasty desserts. We walked up and down Broadway afterwards, and stopped at Twice Sold Tales--where I finally scored copies of a couple of Dorothy Sayers books I'd been looking for, In the Teeth of the Evidence and Lord Peter Views the Body. They appear to be short story collections. But now at least I'll have 'em. I also need to pick up a copy of Murder Must Advertise, even enough I've already read it, just to keep rounding out my Sayers collection.
Thursday miles: 1.0
Friday miles: 0.5
Saturday miles: 2.0
Miles out of Hobbiton: 102.66
Miles to Rivendell: 355.34
xelona and irysangel, who are now reading my journal! Glad to see you stopping by.+1: I have now finished Kim Harrison's Dead Witch Walking. Not bad at all, though it's very strange to be reading a bunch of urban fantasies back to back and seeing all the small variations on how authors do things: vampires, werewolves, witches, etc. Ms. Harrison does a couple of things I disagree with, but on the whole her book was fun and I'll go buy the next one. She has a very Jim-Butcher-esque flavor to her, and that's a good thing. I'm also amused that her heroine seems to be bi and hasn't admitted it yet, but we'll have to see where that goes. I have, however, also resolved that I will not be having vampires anywhere in the Faerie Blood books. Everybody does vampires.
+2: Friday night,
solarbird, spazzkat, llachglin, kathrynt and I all went to see The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. Picoreview: fun and fluffy, not much substance. It's been long enough since I've read the books that I have no real clear memory of most of Adams' humor, but I did catch at least one spot where they tried to condense down some of his Funny--quite unsuccessfully. You just can't do the Reader's Digest Condensed Version of Douglas Adams. That said, I did enjoy the movie overall.-3: Yesterday afternoon, my stupid cat decided to use my backpack as her stand-in litter box. This may be a symptom of, again, my not having changed the stupid litter box fast enough (I did, of course, immediately change it after cleaning up after the cat). But it may also be a sign of something else, and fortunately I'd just made an appointment for her to have her annual vet exam. Hopefully the vet will be able to tell me if she's got something going on that might be causing her to urinate inappropriately; she may just be getting extremely old. Sigh.
+4: Last night Dara and I went out to dinner with
elflad and his new sweetie Jeff, who are in town on a visit. We had pleasant conversation and tasty sushi at our favorite sushi place, and then we went to the Dilettante on Capitol Hill and had more pleasant conversation and tasty desserts. We walked up and down Broadway afterwards, and stopped at Twice Sold Tales--where I finally scored copies of a couple of Dorothy Sayers books I'd been looking for, In the Teeth of the Evidence and Lord Peter Views the Body. They appear to be short story collections. But now at least I'll have 'em. I also need to pick up a copy of Murder Must Advertise, even enough I've already read it, just to keep rounding out my Sayers collection.Thursday miles: 1.0
Friday miles: 0.5
Saturday miles: 2.0
Miles out of Hobbiton: 102.66
Miles to Rivendell: 355.34
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