It's time once again for Sheryl's annual birthday party/housefilk, which we'll host at our townhouse in Rockville on Sunday, April 9th, from 2pm til 7pm. (Sunday! Sunday! Sunday ( Read more... )

We're fairing much better than New York or New England, but nonetheless the roads are snowy or icy enough (and the Metro running on a reduced schedule) that my office and Sam's day care both closed for the day. The government had a dalayed opening, but Sheryl decided to take the day. (Since it really takes both of us to even barely keep certain ( Read more... )

And here's February's list. Continuing the usual early-year scramble to get through as many of the 2016 books still on my TBR bookcase as I can before the Hugo nominating deadline. (I will, of course, fail to get through all of them.) Also notable is the late-month attempt to actually read a couple of books by African-American authors during Black ( Read more... )

Just when I thought I was mostly recovered from Boskone, I got jumped by a cough and mild fever over the weekend. Could be delayed con crud, could be something picked up sometime during the work week.

It was a good con. The music program once again kept me busy. I shared a children's concert with mewsic, had a 30-minute set of my own, was part of Song ( Read more... )

Meant to get this up earlier. Here's my schedule for Boskone:

Worldbuilding in SongsFriday 20:00 - 21:00, Lewis (Westin ( Read more... )

A good list to start the year. As usual, it helps that I started a couple of things in late December but finished them in January so I count them for 2017.

1. Borderline, Mishell Baker - Gained some note last year for featuring a double-amputee, suicide survivor with borderline personality disorder as its heroine. The first in the Arcadia ( Read more... )

An already sad day has gotten sadder...Larry Smith, seller of books to large portions of the Midwest, Northeast, and Southeast, passed away this morning. From what I've seen posted, apparently he suffered an aortic aneurysm and collapsed at home. He was being wheeled into surgery when he left us ( Read more... )

For once right on schedule, here is the last 2016 bookpost. I find it interesting that all six novels I read (or finished) in December were written by women. It's a current goal of mine to increase the number of works written, drawn or edited by women that I read in 2016, which I modestly succeeded in (going from 34 to 42 items) and plan to improve ( Read more... )

I have similar feelings about this New Year's post as I did about last year's. From a global perspective, I agree 2016 was a pretty craptastic year. For us personally, it was a decent year ( Read more... )

As usual, we spent the holiday weekend at the_sheryl's parents in Boynton Beach. Except this time we had a 17-month old energetic toddler with us, which made life interesting. For starters, between a not particularly comfortable bed in their guest room and vertical blinds that don't do much to block the sun I don't sleep well anyway; add a toddler waking up ( Read more... )