A slight pity I didn't save the book one more day
So I did indeed go to the gym last night, and I wound up in bed at 2:40am, but it's important to note that this wasn't the fault of the gym session, and that I would have been up all night trying to finish Captain Vorpatril's Alliance whether I combined it with two hours on cardio machines, or spent the evening multitasking by knitting stockinette, or just hid in my room with my Kindle. I was up all night reading, not up all night because I went to the gym right after work. So the principle is sound, and I should look into making a point of going again Tuesday night, because having two nights a week to spend reading for several hours after work is a nice thing to have set into my schedule, whereas having my Friday nights locked into a particular routine (or buying a lazy Friday night in exchange for a Saturday afternoon that gets eaten by a gym session) is a thing I could stand to quit doing.
I'm good and short on sleep, but at least tonight I don't have anything major to accomplish between getting home and going to bed. And if I can manage to get myself into bed before passing out with the lights on, I can enjoy sleeping in tomorrow with a clear conscience. Didn't quite manage to finish the book, BTW, but I'm up to something like 95% done, and I'll get that last little bit during lunch. And then I think I'll manage to avoid getting sucked into a complete reread of the Vorkosigan series, followed by as many of the downloaded-but-unread fic as I can manage to plow through before I'm finally tired of the characters, if only because Four (or Five) Reasons for Kidnapping Tony Stark was just completed yesterday and I read the first chapter or two some time ago but have been letting the new chapters just kind of stack up since.
Links from Tumblr / Twitter / Facebook:
Researchers use spoofing to 'hack' into a flying drone -- "American researchers took control of a flying drone by 'hacking' into its GPS system - acting on a $1,000 (£640) dare from the US Department of Homeland Security (DHS). A University of Texas at Austin team used 'spoofing' - a technique where the drone mistakes the signal from hackers for the one sent from GPS satellites. The same method may have been used to bring down a US drone in Iran in 2011."
The Feminist and the Handbag -- "Why is there very little utility to women’s clothing? Why don’t we get pockets which actually open? Why do we have to put up with the ‘false pockets’ that are frequently sewn onto women’s jackets and pants to give visual interest without ruining the ‘line’ of the garment? Why, when pockets are actually present, are they so rarely large, stable, or loose enough to accommodate a phone or a wallet? And why, given this is the case, do women go on to cop so much flack for carrying handbags around with them?" I pass this along mostly because of my own mini-rant about how cargo pants were only in style for women for a year or two -- basically, just long enough for me to discover how magical it is to be able to run around with my phone and keys in my pocket all day, and just slip a wallet into the other thigh pocket to be able to run an errand without hauling my bag along. And now they've mostly vanished, so when the pairs I have wear out I expect I'll be looking into men's pants to replace them with... (I've been allowed to get away with wearing them to work, and they've entirely replaced the skirts and dresses I used to sometimes wear. Not going back to pocketlessness unless I have to.)
And here is a thing I just discovered, browsing on my various Amazon wishlists because it's payday: Most of Patrick O'Brian's Aubrey/Maturin novels are are now at $3.99 for the Kindle editions -- a handful are still $8.77, but that's twelve out of twenty-one you can pick up for less than half the usual price. No idea if this is the new pricing or just a temporary sale -- just in case of the latter, I grabbed while the getting was good. (Checked with Dad, and he would indeed be very pleased to take my dead-tree editions of the series off my hands -- need to remember to get out in the garage and collect them before the next time I see him. I've missed two chances to hand them over already.)
And, right. Closing out browser tabs and winding things up. Good and late, oh well. I get to sleep late tomorrow, and I don't actually have anything that needs doing tonight. I could knit, I could read, I could take a five-hour nap and then get up and tend the bunnies and have dinner and read for a bit, whatever.
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comments made.
I'm good and short on sleep, but at least tonight I don't have anything major to accomplish between getting home and going to bed. And if I can manage to get myself into bed before passing out with the lights on, I can enjoy sleeping in tomorrow with a clear conscience. Didn't quite manage to finish the book, BTW, but I'm up to something like 95% done, and I'll get that last little bit during lunch. And then I think I'll manage to avoid getting sucked into a complete reread of the Vorkosigan series, followed by as many of the downloaded-but-unread fic as I can manage to plow through before I'm finally tired of the characters, if only because Four (or Five) Reasons for Kidnapping Tony Stark was just completed yesterday and I read the first chapter or two some time ago but have been letting the new chapters just kind of stack up since.
Links from Tumblr / Twitter / Facebook:
Researchers use spoofing to 'hack' into a flying drone -- "American researchers took control of a flying drone by 'hacking' into its GPS system - acting on a $1,000 (£640) dare from the US Department of Homeland Security (DHS). A University of Texas at Austin team used 'spoofing' - a technique where the drone mistakes the signal from hackers for the one sent from GPS satellites. The same method may have been used to bring down a US drone in Iran in 2011."
The Feminist and the Handbag -- "Why is there very little utility to women’s clothing? Why don’t we get pockets which actually open? Why do we have to put up with the ‘false pockets’ that are frequently sewn onto women’s jackets and pants to give visual interest without ruining the ‘line’ of the garment? Why, when pockets are actually present, are they so rarely large, stable, or loose enough to accommodate a phone or a wallet? And why, given this is the case, do women go on to cop so much flack for carrying handbags around with them?" I pass this along mostly because of my own mini-rant about how cargo pants were only in style for women for a year or two -- basically, just long enough for me to discover how magical it is to be able to run around with my phone and keys in my pocket all day, and just slip a wallet into the other thigh pocket to be able to run an errand without hauling my bag along. And now they've mostly vanished, so when the pairs I have wear out I expect I'll be looking into men's pants to replace them with... (I've been allowed to get away with wearing them to work, and they've entirely replaced the skirts and dresses I used to sometimes wear. Not going back to pocketlessness unless I have to.)
And here is a thing I just discovered, browsing on my various Amazon wishlists because it's payday: Most of Patrick O'Brian's Aubrey/Maturin novels are are now at $3.99 for the Kindle editions -- a handful are still $8.77, but that's twelve out of twenty-one you can pick up for less than half the usual price. No idea if this is the new pricing or just a temporary sale -- just in case of the latter, I grabbed while the getting was good. (Checked with Dad, and he would indeed be very pleased to take my dead-tree editions of the series off my hands -- need to remember to get out in the garage and collect them before the next time I see him. I've missed two chances to hand them over already.)
And, right. Closing out browser tabs and winding things up. Good and late, oh well. I get to sleep late tomorrow, and I don't actually have anything that needs doing tonight. I could knit, I could read, I could take a five-hour nap and then get up and tend the bunnies and have dinner and read for a bit, whatever.
Crossposted from Dreamwidth with
comments made.