Posts Tagged ‘books’

OMG Update!

Wednesday, September 16th, 2009

My triumphant return to soccer was anything but, as I have spent the last few days laid up from getting knocked around. I even had to miss my first fencing class. Bother.

It did, however, give me a chance to catch up on some reading. I devoured Neil Gaiman’s The Graveyard Book yesterday. It was great. I love how Gaiman manages to deal with life, death, the border between them, and with other themes, like growing up, revenge, and so forth. I should be noted that I am a fan of all things Gaiman (at least, all those things which I have gotten my grubby paws upon).

Weekend Posting

Saturday, January 10th, 2009

The snows have returned – in force. Makes for a cozy weekend of sports-watching (the victorious MSU basketball team) and DVD watching (more Bones and Battlestar Galactica). After a whirlwind housecleaning, that is. After all, we must try to be *somewhat* productive, mustn’t we?

In more exciting news, Cherie Priest’s Those Who Went Remain There Still arrived today. Subterranean Press‘s Limited Edition with chapbook, of course. After recently finishing her other recent release, Fathom, I’m very much looking forward to more of Ms. Priest’s writing.

Oh, we also watched Bangkok Dangerous with some friends. It was worse than I expected. We made it through the whole thing, so I suppose I’ll give it 2 stars.

Internet!

Sunday, December 21st, 2008

Obviously, our internet access has been restored. As I suspected, it was not due to the snow. Rather unexpectedly, however, it was lost as a result of vandalism. How lame.

In any case, it’s back. I used the non-connected time well, I think. I finished a book I’d started a month or two ago, and breezed through another. Drank a lot of tea, cleared out a goodly number of shows from the TiVo, watched a few movies (Hancock – reviewed yesterday, The X-Files: I Want to Believe, and the classic Grosse Pointe Blank), wrapped some gifts, listened to some of my backlog of podcasts…

While digging through iTunes, I came to the realization that my collection of holiday music is woefully small. I shall have to rectify this situation.

Improvements

Monday, December 8th, 2008

Both physically and site-wise.

I am approaching wellness, albeit slowly. I am once again grateful to live in an age of technology. Almost all of my Christmas shopping is done, thanks to the intarwebs; in particular, Amazon.com and what has turned out to be a fabulous investment: Amazon Prime. Having hardly left the couch in over a week, and being thrown into spasms of coughing by the cold winter air, I am happy to be so close to finished with the crass consumerism portion of the holiday season.

As my health improves, so to does my mental concentration and thus, ability to watch complicated films and television shows* and, blessedly, read! I’ve nearly finished one book and have assembled my next pile from the backlog.

In addition, I have nearly completed the back-end portion of Part 1 of my site plans. It’s mostly personal stuff, with only tiny bits leaking through to the public portions, but still quite exciting for me and my minimal coding skills.

So there you have it. Improvements.

Also, go Sooners!


As opposed to the Futurama and Austin Powers I watched blearily. This is not to denigrate these fine films, but to acknowledge that they are not what one might term “cerebral”.

Weekends

Saturday, November 22nd, 2008

I love them.

I just spent the last 3 awesome hours with a warm kitty purring on my lap. And drooling. Which is less awesome.

I accomplished a few small things during this morning o’ bliss, including catching up on a few podcasts (iTunes reports I have a mere 539 to go…) which led me to the lovely story of Dewey (fully, Dewey Readmore Books) of the Spencer (Iowa) Public Library. Found in the library’s book return, Dewey became a part of the library. There’s a book, and apparently also a movie in the works. Cute!

Now, on to football!