While in Ktown for the weekend, we stayed with the Lizrents. The Lizrents have a cat. A sweet, pretty, stupid cat with long hair. This means that my allergies start to overwhlem whatever anti-allergen I throw at them after a while. To survive, I bring out the nuclear option - stimulants. Pseudoephedrine and caffeine keep me perky and breathing ( Read more... )

Monday is Winter Solstice. I'll be staying up all night to make sure the sun comes back on Tuesday ( Read more... )

( When you're not feeling holy, your loneliness says that you've sinned. )

From thefridayfive

1. What song would you sing to your newborn child? (OR if you already had a child, which song did you sing to him/her?)

Jonathan Coulton's Re: Your Brains, Leonard Cohen's Famous Blue Raincoat and Chelsea Hotel no 2., It's Beginning to Look a Lot Like Fishmen...

You know, it's best that I got fixed, really.

2. How do you think animals ( Read more... )

I can has Fevar ( Read more... )

Kscope prep!
Remaining to do;

Make trail mix of proteiny doom
shave
paint toenails
actually drag all this shit to the van

Looking at how much of the space is being taken up by food, we may need to forcefeed people to make sure we can bring tormenta home!

I'm told the site is pretty full already; tormenta apparently got us the last space capable of holding 6 ( Read more... )

Survival by Julie Czerneda
Book one of the Species Imperative trilogy. I loved these books. There's romance, but it's not gooey and romance novelly. There's Canada, but it's not "OH LOOK, CANADA!" like a lot of books that are set there are. Good characters, and a pretty good job on aliens that feel alien. I highly recommend these to anyone ( Read more... )

I've been remiss at logging my reading...

Probably out of order. I hope I haven't missed anything - among other things, this list is supposed to help prevent me buying books I've already read.

The Hallowed Hunt by Lois Mc Master Bujold
Mmm, Bujold. I really like the theology for this ficton.
The Hidden Family by Charles Stross
Book two in ( Read more... )

I made it - from sunset to sunrise, I stayed awake and kept vigil over the light through the longest night. The Wolf didn't eat the sun while it was gone, and the Sun King made it back. I may have a more coherent report on the night, but I need more sleep to do that, I think. However, the sun is up, and I'm hungry. I think I'll wait for neeuqdrazil to ( Read more... )

( Thursday's swamp is full of... )