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Jan. 30th, 2025 07:36 pmFeeling better - may be a combination of the barometric pressure lifting, my sinuses clearing up, and the antibiotics. Also it helps to know what the problem is?
Now, I just got to get the stupid Stress MRI scheduled. They keep calling me while I'm on the F train to schedule - usually when the train is going over the viaduct to Seventh Avenue. I told them this was annoying. And could they call me anytime before 3pm to schedule, not between 4pm-5pm, while I'm in transit. I just don't want to schedule a Stress MRI on the subway.
I miss the days in which I didn't have phones literally everywhere. I can't escape them. I even have one attached to my wrist. It's so Trek. I talk to people on my watch now. All I need is a teleportation device - and I'm all set. Beam me up, Scotty, and fly me to an Earth that doesn't have any Republicans or social conservatives.
Came home. Did Laundry. Which was relatively easy - there was only one other person using it - and theirs was in the dryer. I listened to Fourth Wing while doing it. While the novel moves at a brisk pace, it's annoyingly juvenile in places and the protagonist whines incessantly about her situation (the downfall of trying not to make her a Mary Sue?). But, the people trying to kill her are worse, and they get satisfyingly killed by Dragons. Yes, we finally got to the dragons. I'm admittedly reading it for the dragons. ( Read more... )
Finished Rules of Redemption (Firebird #1) by Toby White, aka TA White. It's not well written. I ended up skimming the last five chapters, because it was dragging - and that was the climax. The world-building is not up to snuff. Folks? If you want to write science fiction or fantasy? World-building is kind of important, so is characterization. If you can't do world-building, don't write science fiction and fantasy. ( Read more... )
I'm not continuing with the writer, and have become leery of book suggestions via the Kate Daniels fandom.
Have moved on to Station Eternity: The Midsolar Murders - Book 1 - this is a science fiction murder mystery. Doesn't appear to have a romance, but I could be wrong. I found it on Smart Bitches as a Kindle Daily Deal.
Blurb: "Amateur detective Mallory Viridian’s talent for solving murders ruined her life on Earth and drove her to live on an alien space station, but her problems still follow her in this witty, self-aware novel that puts a speculative spin on murder mysteries, from the Hugo-nominated author of Six Wakes."
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Work continues to be enjoyable for the most part. I'm not bored. I think I'm becoming a good editor, or at the very least, a good legal, technical and business editor. Not to mention a half decent financial analyst.
I'm learning to just enjoy things without thinking too much about it. Life is so much more enjoyable when I float through it and remember to turn off my brain.
Now, I just got to get the stupid Stress MRI scheduled. They keep calling me while I'm on the F train to schedule - usually when the train is going over the viaduct to Seventh Avenue. I told them this was annoying. And could they call me anytime before 3pm to schedule, not between 4pm-5pm, while I'm in transit. I just don't want to schedule a Stress MRI on the subway.
I miss the days in which I didn't have phones literally everywhere. I can't escape them. I even have one attached to my wrist. It's so Trek. I talk to people on my watch now. All I need is a teleportation device - and I'm all set. Beam me up, Scotty, and fly me to an Earth that doesn't have any Republicans or social conservatives.
Came home. Did Laundry. Which was relatively easy - there was only one other person using it - and theirs was in the dryer. I listened to Fourth Wing while doing it. While the novel moves at a brisk pace, it's annoyingly juvenile in places and the protagonist whines incessantly about her situation (the downfall of trying not to make her a Mary Sue?). But, the people trying to kill her are worse, and they get satisfyingly killed by Dragons. Yes, we finally got to the dragons. I'm admittedly reading it for the dragons. ( Read more... )
Finished Rules of Redemption (Firebird #1) by Toby White, aka TA White. It's not well written. I ended up skimming the last five chapters, because it was dragging - and that was the climax. The world-building is not up to snuff. Folks? If you want to write science fiction or fantasy? World-building is kind of important, so is characterization. If you can't do world-building, don't write science fiction and fantasy. ( Read more... )
I'm not continuing with the writer, and have become leery of book suggestions via the Kate Daniels fandom.
Have moved on to Station Eternity: The Midsolar Murders - Book 1 - this is a science fiction murder mystery. Doesn't appear to have a romance, but I could be wrong. I found it on Smart Bitches as a Kindle Daily Deal.
Blurb: "Amateur detective Mallory Viridian’s talent for solving murders ruined her life on Earth and drove her to live on an alien space station, but her problems still follow her in this witty, self-aware novel that puts a speculative spin on murder mysteries, from the Hugo-nominated author of Six Wakes."
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Work continues to be enjoyable for the most part. I'm not bored. I think I'm becoming a good editor, or at the very least, a good legal, technical and business editor. Not to mention a half decent financial analyst.
I'm learning to just enjoy things without thinking too much about it. Life is so much more enjoyable when I float through it and remember to turn off my brain.