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Cyber Monday
Bought a Kindle Fire and a Laptop* today online from Amazon. Well, that's my Xmas. I feel like I belong to the 21st century, now.
*Acer TravelMate TM7750G-6494 LX.V3S03.024 Notebook PC - Intel Core i5-2430M 2.40GHz, 8GB DDR3, 500GB HDD, DVDRW, AMD 1GB Radeon HD 6650M, 17.3" Display, Windows 7 Professional 64-bit -
What I've Been Reading
I finally finished The Way of Kings, Brandon Sanderson's new horse-choker of a book - the first in a large series. Still, I loved it. It was a little slow going at the beginning, but quickly picks up and carries through. It ends in a satisfying way, with everyone's orgins and backstory pretty much laid out.
The newest Sanderson, his latest Mistborn ( Read more... ) -
Fall
Wow, we're actually getting a Fall this year, with temps this week not getting out of the mid-Sixties. -
Stuff I've Read Recently
I've been reading several things on and off, lately.
Larry Correia's 'Monster Hunter International' books. Excellent stuff. He's also a gamer, and used to live in my hometown. How we don't know each other, I have no idea.
His new series, the 'GrimNoir' books, are equally interesting. Basiclly: Take 1930's America, combine magic, and the X-Men. And ( Read more... ) -
LOTRO
Doing more towards the end of Moria, or....?
Or we could break a bit and cruise the free skies of City of Heroes, now. -
Chapter Two: Steeth
I think I need to completely re-do Steeth's introduction. He's just had his legs kicked out from under him with the real possibility that all his corrupt dealings will be discovered. He fancies himself a cool customer but really he's just possessed of a certain low cunning and survival instinct: he might panic more. Something about his character ( Read more... ) -
Chapter Two
So now we have Andric Tan (who was Adric something or other originally but for some reason Word decided it liked 'Andric' better and then so did I), who is a researcher on the station. He's head of the meteorology division and so he's exposed to the various politics of the station's department heads. He might be the first person to notice Jay down ( Read more... )