Something new

Trying something new, with luck, this post will show up in my blog and in LJ automatically. Just part of our service-oriented lifestyle here in Ottawa, trying to save my LJ friends (yes, both of you) from having to visit an extra site to catch up on my no doubt exciting life.

lj-mood: hopeful

The paternal unit rose to the occasion for New Year's Eve, recognizing me for the first time during the visit, and chatting with people more or less coherently the whole two hours. He also fed himself (mostly) and snarfed an extra half-slice of cake from my mother, so the party seemed to do him good. Unfortunately he's subsided again, and is back lurking beneath the surface of awareness most of the time. Sigh...

On the reading front, a day off work gave me a chance to read Mike Resnick's Starship: Mutiny, and, yes, there's a title that gives a big chunk of the plot away. It was a good read though, even though I figured out about forty pages in that I'd read it before. He's a good author though, and his characters are fun to watch, so I polished it off and jaunted over to the library to order the sequels.

Read and not yet commented on: Thunderbird Falls and Coyote Dreams, both by C.E. Murphy. The former dragged in bits, but ended up with enough character development to spur me on to the latter, which likewise left me interested in its eventual sequel. Pretty typical for the modern/magic intersection genre, but Gary -- the septuagenarian taxi-driving smart-ass side-kick -- is so charming that I'm willing to forgive a fair amount of predictability.