A few unconnected thoughts.
Very busy at work. No lunch break today.
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Why do cats sit on papers?
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Some photo's of the hyperinflation in Zimbabwe. Increasing large bundles of bank notes paying for nothing. An every increasing number of zeros added to new note issued. They knocked 10 zeros off the end earlier this year, and may have to do it again before the year is out.
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Nurse led drop in centre say: I've likely sprained big trapezoid muscle, which would take around two weeks to start feeling completely better. So take ibuprofen to reduce inflammation. Full range of movement available from both shoulders. Excess movement in left should probably just an elongated tendon, talk to GP next time, but don't worry about it. So I won't.
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Saw Bond in Basingstoke with: Fuzz, piesandmash, March and March.
America has exploding petrol. Europe doesn't.
As spotted byFran.
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Read "Kitty and the Midnight Hour" by Carrie Vaughn (first recommended to me by makyo over three years ago!) basically in one sitting. Train and tube ride home. A bit before going to sleep. Then a bit more as I was over 3/4 of the way through. Took around 2.5 to 3 hours.
Basic premis: A werewolf running a late call in night show on the supernatural. Werewolves, Vampires, and other unspecified things (and lists only get three items in before being interrupted) are real, but generally try and stay hidden from public view.
The parts I enjoyed most were around the dynamics of the werewolf pack. It's an interesting take, that the pack pecking order remains when they are human, and power struggles in the humans, carry over into status fights between the wolves.
The trouble is that only 5 of the pack get any mention. You never really hear anything about the rest. Which seems like a mistake, given the importance place on the relative positions in the pack.
Couple more gripes. In the pre-into stuff, it's acknowledged that two chapters the were previously published as stand alones. Thinking back to the Bond film I'd seen earlier in the evening, these felt like the big set pieces, that the rest of the plot drives towards.
The rest of the book seems based on a fairly gritty reality, but both of these dramatic scenes wrap up just in time for Kitty to wrap up the radio show. Even going so far as to point out that this is an implausible coincidence, finishing just where the credits would roll in a movie.
Another point where the grittiness seems to fail, was in what happens Kitty is outed as the first publicly known werewolf. For one, no-one really doubts her. Okay there's not a huge cast, but everyone who's in it and previously thought this was just kooky radio show, just believes it on little more than Kitty's say so.
Another gripe with this, is that while the impact this has on the dynamics of the wolf pack is well though out, it has very little impact on Kitty's day to day life. You'd think being the world's first widely publicised proof of the existence of the supernatural, would have some impact. But other than 2 reporters filming her when she walks past something they're already filming, nothing really happens.
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More love for the UK online battery shop. They spotted a mistake in some invoices from ages ago, so sent out a polite email with an updated invoice, telling me that I can ignore it, unless I was using it for VAT reasons. I like when shops own up to things without prompting.
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Why do cats sit on papers?
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Some photo's of the hyperinflation in Zimbabwe. Increasing large bundles of bank notes paying for nothing. An every increasing number of zeros added to new note issued. They knocked 10 zeros off the end earlier this year, and may have to do it again before the year is out.
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Nurse led drop in centre say: I've likely sprained big trapezoid muscle, which would take around two weeks to start feeling completely better. So take ibuprofen to reduce inflammation. Full range of movement available from both shoulders. Excess movement in left should probably just an elongated tendon, talk to GP next time, but don't worry about it. So I won't.
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Saw Bond in Basingstoke with: Fuzz, piesandmash, March and March.
America has exploding petrol. Europe doesn't.
As spotted byFran.
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Read "Kitty and the Midnight Hour" by Carrie Vaughn (first recommended to me by makyo over three years ago!) basically in one sitting. Train and tube ride home. A bit before going to sleep. Then a bit more as I was over 3/4 of the way through. Took around 2.5 to 3 hours.
Basic premis: A werewolf running a late call in night show on the supernatural. Werewolves, Vampires, and other unspecified things (and lists only get three items in before being interrupted) are real, but generally try and stay hidden from public view.
The parts I enjoyed most were around the dynamics of the werewolf pack. It's an interesting take, that the pack pecking order remains when they are human, and power struggles in the humans, carry over into status fights between the wolves.
The trouble is that only 5 of the pack get any mention. You never really hear anything about the rest. Which seems like a mistake, given the importance place on the relative positions in the pack.
Couple more gripes. In the pre-into stuff, it's acknowledged that two chapters the were previously published as stand alones. Thinking back to the Bond film I'd seen earlier in the evening, these felt like the big set pieces, that the rest of the plot drives towards.
The rest of the book seems based on a fairly gritty reality, but both of these dramatic scenes wrap up just in time for Kitty to wrap up the radio show. Even going so far as to point out that this is an implausible coincidence, finishing just where the credits would roll in a movie.
Another point where the grittiness seems to fail, was in what happens Kitty is outed as the first publicly known werewolf. For one, no-one really doubts her. Okay there's not a huge cast, but everyone who's in it and previously thought this was just kooky radio show, just believes it on little more than Kitty's say so.
Another gripe with this, is that while the impact this has on the dynamics of the wolf pack is well though out, it has very little impact on Kitty's day to day life. You'd think being the world's first widely publicised proof of the existence of the supernatural, would have some impact. But other than 2 reporters filming her when she walks past something they're already filming, nothing really happens.
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More love for the UK online battery shop. They spotted a mistake in some invoices from ages ago, so sent out a polite email with an updated invoice, telling me that I can ignore it, unless I was using it for VAT reasons. I like when shops own up to things without prompting.