Archive for February, 2015
more good things
We’re going to the lake house this weekend – we haven’t been there for a few weeks, and after this we aren’t likely to go for another four more. There are good and bad sides to this: the good side is that we won’t make it down there (unless we go next weekend) because the […]
good things
A couple of brags: Just a couple of days ago I learned that my book has a review up on Amazon! (I mean, a critic’s review, not a reader’s review – still none of those.) It’s from the American Society for Quality’s main journal, Quality Progress – since I am an ASQ member and get […]
cooking (and not cooking)
It’s very annoying that some of my updates get rejected by LJ; no idea why that happens. (This is why yesterday’s update from here just went up over there – if you read an LJ and you didn’t see it, it’s about workouts, migraines, massages and thyroid function and involves some minor kvetching. Nothing too […]
assorted minor kvetching
Maybe I’ll run away after work today and never go home. This is the downside of having a workout plan – you know what’s lurking in wait for you. Today it’s erging 5 sets of 5 minutes at AT – Anaerobic Transport pace, which means pretty hard – with 5 minutes or rowing easy between […]
girls, girls, girls
Jim Hines put out a call for guest blog posts about representation in SF/F, about what it was like to grow up without seeing people like yourself in the books you read. I thought about writing something like that, and realized I couldn’t: people like me were all over the books I read growing up […]
fashion for the non-photogenic
I’m having a closet problem lately: too much stuff in it. Problem is, the vast majority of it is stuff I actually wear. My sweaters may not fit well in their hanging shelf doohicky, but I love wearing sweaters and don’t want to give up any of them unless they’re entirely falling apart. Then there’s […]
review: My Real Children
(No serious spoilers below, so it should be safe unless you’re one of those people who doesn’t like to know anything about what happens in a book beforehand. In which case I’ll just say “it’s good, go read it.” I’m finishing My Real Children, by Jo Walton (audiobook, while exercising), and I would say it’s […]