Never laugh at a live dragon
The random:
- Interesting fact of the day, from AskOxford:One in five of the world's population speaks English with a good level of competence, and within the next few years the number of people speaking English as a second language will exceed the number of native speakers.
- Pengolodh is my new favourite muse. Of course, I'll be keeping Annatar around, though things get a bit close when one has a High King, assorted sons of Feanor, a jewel-smith, a loquacious word-smith and a misunderstood Maia hanging about.
- My new NOAA radio is here! (The old one got wet... .) It's small and has a headphone jack, so I can now keep abreast of imminent tornadoes at home, at work or on the train. I'm very pleased with this. I have a more spiffy (spiffier?) radio on back order at Amazon, so we'll have to see how the cheap one works out.
- One month now until The Children of Hurin ships! ::roots for dragon::
- Speaking of dragons, a very cute popslash/crackfic story (actually, it's really gen, though I'm sure I see a bit of JuC in there): A Habitation of Dragons. Justin Timberlake turns into a Tolkienesque dragon (but wait 'till you see his hoard).