Well, that could have been more painful. The direct line the physio gave me was 'this number is not in service,' the booking dep't goes to lunch at 12:30 not 1, and I somehow got the MRI people not the CT scan ones. But I wasn't on hold for much more than ten minutes when I called at 1:30 and they don't play muzak. I have an appointment now in ( Read more... )

Every time I get a new 100 Demons tank it seems I always say that it gives me the warm fuzzies, a sense of the world having, however briefly, gone back to The Way It Sposed To Be. This time is no exception ( Read more... )

This morning's lie in dream was an almost coherent From Eroica one where Dorian was throwing a birthday party for Klaus with a fancy cake, which Klaus didn't want to eat of course, and an incursion by spies of some sort, as well as a gaggle of teenage boys who were there for some other reason, and distracted Dorian trying to keep all these things ( Read more... )

Mh well, that was interesting. Clouds parted just enough at the beginning to make people believe they'd actualy see the eclipse and then rolled back in. Even so the err whatever you call the 99% point we got here was pretty Tartarean apocalyptic: sky went  a pre-serious storm purply grey, street lights came on, birds shut up. But it wasn't any four ( Read more... )

When eholds come, they come not single spies but in battalions. I had to put off A Memory Called Empire for five weeks because I just started Ancillary Justice. Yes, late to the party, but generally I don't read science fiction. Even SF written by women, after the head-hurty show not tell antics of Cherryh. However, shall give these a whirl, though ( Read more... )

Have been reading the latest 100 Demons, spinning it out because the pleasure is once yearly and sometimes not that. Chuffed that I can still read her without having recourse to the Wordtank, which surprised me, *and* follow the plot which would be even more surprising except that I think she's becoming linear in her old age. There were only a few ( Read more... )

Temps have been just above freezing for the last three days, weather has been grey and dank and miserable, and joints have hurt in a different way than any time before. Can only assume that side effects of the booster were delayed this time beause my arm didn't really bother me noticeably until two days later, and is still sensitive. So my right ( Read more... )

I should hire a cleaning service but instead I buy a new vacuum cleaner, one that supposedly works better than Dirt Devils ( Read more... )

I heard some of Loreena Mc Kennitt's work when I was in Japan and bought her whole backlist after I came home. Now all her earliest stuff says 'spring of 1996' to me. 1996 was a weird alternative dimension, precisely because I was just back after five years in Japan. So when I come across it again- as now, when my exercise music has started into ( Read more... )

Things I never knew: that the valves inside a shower get gunked up with lime and so on and need replacing every decade or so. This is why my shower leaks from the faucet, though the water pressure from the shower head is still fine because I removed the doohickey that's supposed to conserve water by restricting flow. (Which has never made any sense ( Read more... )