The Thursday report
May. 12th, 2005 09:35 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
annathepiper+0: I know I've already chatted with both of these folks in comments, but just for the sake of mentioning it to the Friends list at large, everybody say hi to ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
kaseido who joins me from ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-community.gif)
words_in_common, and kathrynelaraine who joins me from Gruntland!
-1: Finished Elizabeth Peters' Guardian of the Horizon last night, and found it... not quite up to the par of the overall excellence of the Amelia Peabody series. Not that it was a bad or unenjoyable read, but I think I have the same issues with it that I've seen other Peters fans have, in that since it jumps out of the flow of time of the series, going back and sticking a new story into one of the holes in previous continuity, we get a lot of elements in the story that we've already seen before. The biggest of these is that in this novel, Ramses still is carrying a torch for Nefret and hasn't gotten around to admitting it to her yet--and since this gets resolved in novels later on the timeline, having that as a subplot wasn't really effective here. Also, a certain thing happens with Ramses towards the end of the novel that I think was rather out of character for him, and not really believable based on what happens earlier in the book. Sigh. Well, even Ms. Peters is entitled to have an off day, I suppose. But I'm glad she's going back to the usual flow of the timeline with the next book. :)
+2: Heh. I get to test the Media Player on WinME today. JOY! Also, I have been informed that since the size of our team is about to explode, our lead will not be able to directly manage folks as much--which means that he's going to have to draft several current members of the team to be what he describes as "virtual leads", taking charge of certain areas of responsibility. Apparently, I get to be one of these "virtual leads".solarbird says I should ask my lead if this means I get a "virtual raise".
+3: Three chapters to go till I print Faerie Blood and fire it off to Luna! Those of you who are beta reading for me, if you have any pending commentary on chapters 1-20, get it to me ASAP--I'm going to aim to try to get this done this weekend if I can!
Wednesday miles: 1.0
Miles out of Hobbiton: 105.66
Miles to Rivendell: 352.34
kaseido who joins me from words_in_common, and kathrynelaraine who joins me from Gruntland!-1: Finished Elizabeth Peters' Guardian of the Horizon last night, and found it... not quite up to the par of the overall excellence of the Amelia Peabody series. Not that it was a bad or unenjoyable read, but I think I have the same issues with it that I've seen other Peters fans have, in that since it jumps out of the flow of time of the series, going back and sticking a new story into one of the holes in previous continuity, we get a lot of elements in the story that we've already seen before. The biggest of these is that in this novel, Ramses still is carrying a torch for Nefret and hasn't gotten around to admitting it to her yet--and since this gets resolved in novels later on the timeline, having that as a subplot wasn't really effective here. Also, a certain thing happens with Ramses towards the end of the novel that I think was rather out of character for him, and not really believable based on what happens earlier in the book. Sigh. Well, even Ms. Peters is entitled to have an off day, I suppose. But I'm glad she's going back to the usual flow of the timeline with the next book. :)
+2: Heh. I get to test the Media Player on WinME today. JOY! Also, I have been informed that since the size of our team is about to explode, our lead will not be able to directly manage folks as much--which means that he's going to have to draft several current members of the team to be what he describes as "virtual leads", taking charge of certain areas of responsibility. Apparently, I get to be one of these "virtual leads".
solarbird says I should ask my lead if this means I get a "virtual raise".+3: Three chapters to go till I print Faerie Blood and fire it off to Luna! Those of you who are beta reading for me, if you have any pending commentary on chapters 1-20, get it to me ASAP--I'm going to aim to try to get this done this weekend if I can!
Wednesday miles: 1.0
Miles out of Hobbiton: 105.66
Miles to Rivendell: 352.34