NQH was watching Sports Center this morning before work.  A commercial for Pizza Hut (I think) comes on; at the end of the commercial they proudly announce that there's an iPhone app that allows you to order pizza from your phone! Awesomeness ( Read more... )

I finished Fire Raiser this morning.   
( My thoughts, with spoilery spoilage )

I started Fire Raiser last night, and I'm about 100 pages in so far.  Really enjoying it.  I find myself becoming attached to two secondary characters, so now I'm wondering which one is going to die. 

NQH and I were watching TV last night, and a commerical for Twilight came on.  He turned to me and said "What's this Twilight thing?  I keep hearing about it, but I have no idea what it's about."

So I said to him:

Imagine Harry Potter.  In Twilight, Harry's a girl, and the character is a cardboard, two-dimensional placeholder so you can easily ( Read more... )

 .......aaaand... we're back!

The last two weeks of my life have been sucked up by the Olympics.  I did come out on the other side with a nice knitted shawl, though. ;)

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 Before bed last night I was scanning my bookshelves looking for something to read for a bit.  After a minute or two I acknowledged that since it was already 11:00, starting a new book might not be a good decision.  I lay down in bed and reach over to set my alarm... and nearly knock it off the stack of unread/half-read books on my nightstand - ( Read more... )

I finished Kushiel's Mercy over the weekend.  I really enjoyed it, but didn't post about it because I have this vague sense of dissatisfaction about the book that I couldn't pinpoint.  I thought it was a great end to the series, the characters stayed true to themselves, there was good plot development, it was exciting, etc., etc.  All the stuff I ( Read more... )

 Kushiel's Mercy shipped on Friday.  Should be in my hands by Wednesday.  Sweeeeet!

 NQH has gotten into Warcraft again - apparently rolling a Horde character was the key - so we've decided to go ahead with our plans to buy a second computer so we can play together.  (Jeez, did I just type that out loud ( Read more... )

HP 7 = Two thumbs up.

I'll miss reading new tales of your adventures, Harry, but I won't miss standing in line at 12:30 am to do so.