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Today began with the GC shaking me gently awake and saying, "It's 6:30; shouldn't you be at work already?"
Yes. Yes I should have.
The rest of the day proceeded according to precedent, with me leaving my lunch on the kitchen counter, my thermos at work, and scrambling to cover for the over 2/3 of the workforce currently sick with covid. (I tested negative again today, but fear my luck is surely running out.)
I returned home after a suitably trying commute to find my building surrounded yet again by fire engines. This time the fire was not so far as anyone knows attributable to Segueway Asshole, but it still took out much of the basement, including the boiler room (no more hot water in the building) and swamp cooler (no more AC in the building). We have since watched the unit temperature creep inexorably up from the comfortable 74 degrees at which we keep it toward parity with today's 96 degrees outdoors. I'd say it's because it's the 13th, but 13 is usually a lucky number for me.
I also read some stuff.
What I Finished Reading This Week
Exit Strategy – Martha Wells
Written to the standard Murdurbot template:
What I Am Currently Reading
White Mare, Red Stallion – Dianna L. Paxson
One of Paxson’s early novels, this published in 1986, at which time the paperback cost $2.95. I purchased it online for slightly less than double the original cover price; the seller neglected to take the $0.99 Goodwill sticker off the front cover before shipping it to me, in a blatant example of poor form.
No Shortcuts – Max Smeets
This is the clear, direct prose in which I wish all nonfiction books were written.
Dracula – Bram Stoker
I mean, good for Jonathan Harker for sticking it out for so long, but had it been me, I would have climbed out of that window on day 2.
The Qabalistic Tarot – Robert Wang
This week I read the sections on the Fives, Sixes, and Knights.
What I’m Reading Next
This week I picked up No Shortcuts by Max Smeets.
これで以上です。
Yes. Yes I should have.
The rest of the day proceeded according to precedent, with me leaving my lunch on the kitchen counter, my thermos at work, and scrambling to cover for the over 2/3 of the workforce currently sick with covid. (I tested negative again today, but fear my luck is surely running out.)
I returned home after a suitably trying commute to find my building surrounded yet again by fire engines. This time the fire was not so far as anyone knows attributable to Segueway Asshole, but it still took out much of the basement, including the boiler room (no more hot water in the building) and swamp cooler (no more AC in the building). We have since watched the unit temperature creep inexorably up from the comfortable 74 degrees at which we keep it toward parity with today's 96 degrees outdoors. I'd say it's because it's the 13th, but 13 is usually a lucky number for me.
I also read some stuff.
What I Finished Reading This Week
Exit Strategy – Martha Wells
Written to the standard Murdurbot template:
- Murderbot gets on a ship.
- Murderbot has unconfortable protective feelings toward humans.
- Murderbot sneaks on to a new planet/space station.
- Murderbot has initial intimations that Something Is Amiss.
- Murderbot gets embroiled in humans-of-the-week/Evil Corporation conflict against its better judgment.
- Murderbot hacks security systems, surveillance cameras, logistics software, and/or drones, successfully undetected.
- Murderbot fails to protect humans-of-the-week from minor peril.
- Murderbot watchest Sanctuary Moon to calm down.
- Murderbot goes up against Evil Corporation to protect humans-of-the-week from major peril; triumphs.
- Murderbot muses about its ambivalent feelings toward humans.
What I Am Currently Reading
White Mare, Red Stallion – Dianna L. Paxson
One of Paxson’s early novels, this published in 1986, at which time the paperback cost $2.95. I purchased it online for slightly less than double the original cover price; the seller neglected to take the $0.99 Goodwill sticker off the front cover before shipping it to me, in a blatant example of poor form.
No Shortcuts – Max Smeets
This is the clear, direct prose in which I wish all nonfiction books were written.
Dracula – Bram Stoker
I mean, good for Jonathan Harker for sticking it out for so long, but had it been me, I would have climbed out of that window on day 2.
The Qabalistic Tarot – Robert Wang
This week I read the sections on the Fives, Sixes, and Knights.
What I’m Reading Next
This week I picked up No Shortcuts by Max Smeets.
これで以上です。
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I mean, good for Jonathan Harker for sticking it out for so long, but had it been me, I would have climbed out of that window on day 2.
SAME omg.
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Hopefully, tomorrow will be better.
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