On his way

Jun. 17th, 2026 08:20 am
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Looks like he's about half way here!

I got a text last night from Christian. He said that the first World cup game went flawlessly from the condo/crowd/neighborhood point of view. Lots of people but they were all happy and not destructive. Soccer crowds were always the best. American football crowds were always the worst. And Mariners never drew big crowds :). He said that we should be fine coming in on Friday. Good to hear. They closed all the streets to cars for most of the entire neighborhood and the pictures I saw showed them clogged with people. Happy people. Fun.

Bill should be here about noon. I have a Food and Beverage Meeting at 1:30 so depending on his hungry-ness, we will likely pop into the dining room for some lunch. Then he can nap and I can meet. I told the committee chair that she was not getting minutes today but a bullet list in email. I can probably even do that during the meeting.

I have a list of things I want to do this morning so I think I'll get dressed and get to them.


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February 2005 books

Jun. 17th, 2026 02:20 pm
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In anticipation of the 25th anniversary of my bookblogging, which will come in late 2028, I’m reposting my monthly summaries since November 2003 when I started. (I already did this in 2019-2023, but this gives me a chance to consolidate all the posts and links to this WordPress site rather than my old Livejournal.) Everything will be linked under the bookblog nostalgia tag.

February 2005 was rather a busy month. The Macedonian government held a major reception in Brussels on Valentine’s day, which I attended with family in tow, and then referenced in a briefing on the country published a few days later. I went to Geneva to give a lecture, and ended the month in Belgrade, but also had a couple of trips to London – on one of which I attended Picocon at Imperial College, bonding with a lot of newish friends in sf fandom; and using another for an initial conversation with my future employer, who I had met in Kosovo the previous year. It would be another year and a half before the conversation turned into something more concrete.

I read 13 books that month.

Non-fiction 3 (YTD 6)
Blowing My Cover: My Life As A CIA Spy, and other misadventures, by Lindsay Moran
Theft of A Nation: Romania since Communism, by Tom Gallagher
Cyprus: The Search for a Solution, by David Hannay

SF 10 (YTD 15)
Cloud Atlas, by David Mitchell
The Ethos Effect, by L.E. Modesitt Jr
Heartfire, by Orson Scott Card
His Majesty’s Starship, by Ben Jeapes
We/Мы, by Yevgeny Zamyatin/Евгений Иванович Замятин
Manna from Heaven, by Roger Zelazny
Foundation’s Edge, by Isaac Asimov
Forty Signs of Rain, by Kim Stanley Robinson
ThiGMOO, by Eugene Byrne
Stamping Butterflies, by Jon Courtenay Grimwood

4,800 pages (TYD 8,200)
1/13 (YTD 3/22) by women
none by PoC

Best book of the month was Zamyatin’s dystopian We, a fore-runner to 1984 and Brave New Worldyou can get it here. Second best probably Cloud Atlasyou can get it here. Deeply unimpressed by Lindsay Moran’s take on Macedonia. You can get that here.

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Jun. 17th, 2026 08:57 am
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Today it is my plearsure to send out...

*~*~*~*~*GREAT BIG HAPPY BIRTHDAY WISHES*~*~*~*~*

To my friend, [personal profile] thoughtsbykat.

I hope you have a fantastic special day. :)


Disney 4

Blurry, I know

Jun. 17th, 2026 09:29 am
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It's hard to tell but this is a pack of young skunks, eagerly exploring UW campus. It's blurred because I was backing up towards the door through which I had just exited.
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A dour swordsman and a snarky bunny-costume-wearing hostess fight evil in modern Japan.

The Nito Exorcists, volume 1 by Hiromi Ichikawa

Reading Wednesday

Jun. 17th, 2026 08:53 am
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Read Kissing Girls on Shabbat by Sara Glass, a memoir of the author's journey from observant ultra-Orthodox/Hasidic wife to out lesbian and trauma therapist by her early thirties. For some reason, every non-celebrity memoir I read— and, honestly, most of the celebrity ones— end(s) up being about mental health, whether their own and/or others'...? In this case, on top of everything else, Glass grew up in a family where her mother and sister struggled with mental health issues, which motivated her to go into social work and later psychology as a career.

Otherwise on a mystery kick: reading Crimson Angel by Barbara Hambly, one of her Benjamin January mysteries— I'm not sure if I've officially run out of novels where they stick around New Orleans or if I've just happened to stock up on the travel ones: the last few I've read have taken place in Washington, DC, Mexico, and now Cuba (and Haiti?)— and just started Buffet for Unwelcome Guests, a collection of short stories by Golden Age mystery writer Christianna Brand, starting with "Cockrill Cocktails," or stories featuring her recurring detective Inspector Cockrill. (I assume the rest of the stories will be stand-alones? The other section titles are "Choice of Entrées," "Something to Clear the Palate," "Petit Fours," and "Black Coffee.")

ABC meme

Jun. 17th, 2026 12:42 pm
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Using a meme [personal profile] alexcat posted last month

A. Age: Over 65

B. Bed Size: King

C. Chore You Really Dislike: Dusting

D. Dogs: I only like a few

E. Essential Start to Your Day: A mug of tea

F. Favourite Color: Blue

G. Gold or Silver: Silver

H. Height: 5’6"

I. Instruments You Play: Played the clarinet and recorder years ago

J. Job: Retired

K. Kids: Two - The Son - dairy farmer 38, The Daughter - paramedic 35

L. Live: West of England

M. Mum’s Name: Mother

N. Nicknames: Hobbit

O. Overnight Hospital Stays: Both times to have the kids

P. Pet Peeve: Incompetence - not being able to do the job you should be able to do

Q. Quote From A Movie: ‘I think this could be the beginning of a beautiful friendship' - Casablanca.  My favourite quote from anywhere is 'What can possibly go wrong?'

R. Right or Left Handed: Right.

S. Siblings: No

T. Time You Wake Up: About 8 am in winter, 7-7.30 in summer

U. Uniform: I have a hoodie and polo shirt for Gloucestershire Bundles which I wear to the unit and if I'm helping at sales or doing a talk

VCR - do you still own one and dies it work? No, don't have a television either

W. What Makes You Run Late: Family - I'm the one waiting for them

X. X-Rays You’ve Had: Teeth every two years

Y. Yummy Food You Make: I can make cakes, but generally don't.  I do decorate the Christmas and Easter cakes though

Z. Zoo - Tiger


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Reading Wednesday

Jun. 17th, 2026 06:58 am
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Just finished: A Palace Near the Wind by Ai Jiang. In my post about this last week I perhaps failed to mention that in addition to most of the main characters being trees, the humans' palace that is invading their territory is made out of bones.

Anyway.

It's really good. Would recommend, looking forward to the sequel.

Currently reading: Starfish by Peter Watts. This has to be a re-read because there is no way I didn't read something that clearly influenced my own writing this much, but also I have no memory of when or under what circumstances I read it. Weird. So is the book, but that goes without saying. A corporation called GA has built Beebe, an underwater station that harvests geothermal energy from the Juan de Fuca Rift, and genetically and surgically modified some folks to maintain it, called rifters (or vampires by a psychologist sent to report on them, but not the same kind of vampires as in Blindsight). The rifters all have a lung removed and replaced with adaptive equipment to allow them to breathe underwater and adapt to the pressure.

Who would do this? Obviously people who have no choice and who are already fucked in the head, so our cast ranges from the severely traumatized to the severely traumatized with a history of inflicting more trauma on others. They inevitably like the bottom of the ocean more than the surface, but there are some very nasty things down there, not all of them natural.

Also this was written almost 30 years ago and absolutely describes the current state of AI perfectly.

This is obviously extremely up my street and I love it. All the trigger warnings apply, so know that going in. But it's one of the most inventive hard sf books out there and put Peter Watts on the map for good reason.

Word: auroch

Jun. 17th, 2026 06:59 am
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Wednesday's word is...

...auroch.

a large, black European wild ox, Bos primigenius: extinct since 1627.

And comes from DK: art annotated, your expert guide to 500 of the world's greatest works of art, specifically the chapter on the Hall of Bulls found in Lascaux Cave, Montignac, France.


auroch

Last day!

Jun. 17th, 2026 06:14 am
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I guess DW doesn't permit vids, as I tried to upload a wonderful 24 seconds of the train running alongside a bird drifting down the Hudson. Ah well, try to imagine it!

I had a delightful stay in Montreal (a bit crispy at first, then RAIN, then perfect weather) and another delightful Scintillation. So much book talk! Bought Cameron Reed's new book, What We Are Seeing and Jo Walton's just-about-to-come-out Everybody's Perfect, and for a launch panel discussed Emmet O'Brien's first two books in his Vega Victrix series, which he is publishing AT LAST. (I'd read some of it in draft over the years.)

Let me pause and give some thumbnail thoughs here; indie publishing depends on word of mouth (don't I know it!) and I think this space opera series really deserves it.

Both Your Houses is the first book. This series represents everything I want in space opera: intriguing skiffy balanced with complex characters whose emotions are not overwhelmed by the worldbuilding. Which is quite complex, but we learn about it gradually through Corin Oshima, our first-person narrator. She has a wry voice and a dry wit that makes everything, including info, interesting.

The author chose to keep the focus of this book on a specific case, while gradually widening the lens to afford a glimpse of the larger mystery.

Great alien design is another plus, and plenty of action. Corin is my favorite kind of hero--smart, cool, cognizant of conflicting moral algebra without being a jerk. I don't like jerk main characters; when everyone is a jerk, I lose interest in a story. Corin's story immersed me right from the start.

The second book, Ever Vexed With Storms, carries on from the first book. Don't begin with this one! This is a complex space opera universe and a complex story, though in the first two volumes, the author chose a mission/mystery structure, which provides enough guidepost for the reader to start assimilating the complicated background.

Corin continues to be awesome. I love it when the action catches up with her to see how she gets out of it. There's no "and then she leaped from the pit" cheats. Great aliens, high octane emotional entanglements, and a dry, delicious wit kept me immersed until the last page.

Right now they are only available at Amazon, which--whatever else you can say about them, and there's plen-ty to say--makes it relatively easy for the first timer to upload their work. More platforms will happen, and eventually print.

I got the rights back to my INDA series at last, and I've been like a pig in mud, cleaning up all the errors that I wish had been addressed long ago. It didn't get a professional copyedit, which I desprately need, but of course I'm responsible for the crap prose. Cringe, cringe, cringe. So it' time to address that the best I can, and this time there will be a list of characters, something about the ships, and the CORRECT map. That will happen early next month.

Aside from that, so many beautiful things seen and experienced! And today the homeward trip begins; I'd planned to walk to the train station, using up that four and a half hours between latest hotel checkout and needing to be due at Albany/Rensselaer, but the weather will be eighty. Not sure I want to drag a suitcase almost two miles in 80 temps, with sporadic thunderstorms in the forecast. Rain in June? In SoCal that would be a joke, but back here, it's entirely possible! Anyway so I will find a cafe, and hole up with a book and an iced chai latte instead, and decorously take a Lyft.

Miami Vice Cocktail

Jun. 17th, 2026 04:26 am
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Miami Vice Cocktail
Yields: 4 - 6 serving(s) Prep Time: 10 mins Total Time: 15 mins

Ingredients

Piña Colada
3 cups ice
3 (2.45-oz.) frozen pineapple fruit bars or 1 c. pineapple sorbet
4 oz. white rum
1/2 cup cream of coconut
1/2 cup pineapple juice
Kosher salt

Strawberry Daiquiri & Assembly
1 (1-lb.) bag frozen strawberries
8 oz. fresh strawberries, hulled (about 2 c.), plus more for serving
2 (2.45-oz.) frozen lime fruit bars or 2/3 c. lime sorbet
4 oz. white rum
1/2 cup strawberry jam
Kosher salt

Fresh pineapple wedges and/or leaves, for serving

Directions

Piña Colada
In a blender, blend ice, pineapple fruit bars, rum, cream of coconut, pineapple juice, and a pinch of salt until smooth. Transfer cocktail to a pitcher and freeze until ready to use.

Strawberry Daiquiri & Assembly
Step 1Rinse and dry blender. Blend frozen strawberries, fresh strawberries, lime fruit bars, rum, jam, and a pinch of salt until smooth.
Step 2To serve, pour piña colada and daiquiri into glasses, either alternating flavors or stacking one over the other. Garnish with a pineapple wedge, fresh strawberry, and a couple of pineapple leaves.

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