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shadowkat1. For those interested? Nick Brendan was apparently working on and had completed a film, Yesterday is Almost Here prior to his death.
Sad time to be a Buffy fan.
2. The Dental visit went well - for the most part nothing has changed. I do have bleeding gums/sensitive gums - but that's a result of medication and diabetes, and possibly coeliac disease. Hence the reason, I'm seeing a dentist every six months now, as opposed to one every two or three years, like I had previously. (I don't get cavities. But alas, there are other things.) The dental hygienist's head came to my waist. I met her and thought okay, Latin America or Southeast Asia, they grow them tiny south of the equator. I don't know why some people are very tall and some are very short. I am not a biologist or geneticist. I think she had to be four foot?
I'm almost 6 foot. She also either had a frontal lisp, it was the mask, or a heavy accent with the mask - muffled her speech. I had to listen closely to what she was saying and ask at various intervals. (I'm used to doing this - I've done it my entire life - since I naturally mishear things. Also, having grown up with a speech issue which took me about twenty-five years to overcome, and sucking at languages - I'm patient with folks, more so than most. You won't survive in NYC if you aren't?)
Afterwards - I over taxed my knees by wandering to and from grocery stores and stores along Court Street. Managed to pick up various GF pre-prepared foods and items, such as Feel Goods: Vegetable Egg Rolls, Soup Dumplings, and Mozzarella Sticks, GF Deli SourDough Seeded Bread, Gluten Free Pizza,
GF Ravioli, GF Biscuits, GF Clam Chowder, GF Chicken Vegetable Soup (Hale and Hearty)...among other things. It was a haul - so heavier than intended.
I didn't get sweets - or baked goods at least, outside of some chocolate sandwich cookies. Icing my knee now.
It's slightly warmer today - made it up to 58 degrees and 60 in some locals. As a result, small children have been playing noisily in the backyards behind me, screaming as only small children cas. Brings back memories of my own childhood - when I had a sprawling backyard, no fences, and woods that seemed to stretch for acres behind us (it didn't - I was small).
3. Still enjoying my book - I actually look forward to reading it - and consider doing it instead of other things. And think, no let's draw this out. Why I love it and haven't been able to get into other books (some admittedly better written) is beyond me? I think it's that this one has a writing style and trope that I'm craving at the moment?
What's going on in the book at the moment? The heroine is trying to survive in a system of alien caves that she got trapped inside while on an "work related" expedition. It's a science fiction/action adventure/mystery novel with a romance hidden in there somewhere. Possibly under one of the rocks. (No, I'm kidding - it's a slow burn, the romantic leads haven't met yet, there's two leads, and they aren't even in close proximity, and the heroine has every reason on the planet not to trust nor like the male lead. The heroine is also kick-ass, and fighting giant wasps at the moment with her German Shepard sidekick named Bear. She's fighting the wasps so that she can save a spider egg and give it as a gift to the humanoid/insectoid spider herders. (Actually this may be why I think of spiders as insects? I've read and watched too many fictional stories that refer to them in that regard? As bugs? I forget that no, they eat bugs, they aren't bugs.)
So she can get across the cavern floor and to the anchor (anchoring the cave between the portal to her world and the portal to the breach world), and from there find her way back to the gate to her own world and get home.
(I told you it was a convoluted plot.) And the male protagonist or rumored romantic lead is busy trying to figure out what wrong in the mission, how she got trapped or killed, and why his top escort leader and protector only got out of the mission alive with three people and lost twelve. There's a lot of detective work, politicking, investigating and stragetizing in this book - also problem solving. (And I love stuff like that. And am apparently craving it - also urban fantasy, sci-fi, fantasy novels slanting towards mystery with a touch of romance. And a strong female and male leads.)
Sad time to be a Buffy fan.
2. The Dental visit went well - for the most part nothing has changed. I do have bleeding gums/sensitive gums - but that's a result of medication and diabetes, and possibly coeliac disease. Hence the reason, I'm seeing a dentist every six months now, as opposed to one every two or three years, like I had previously. (I don't get cavities. But alas, there are other things.) The dental hygienist's head came to my waist. I met her and thought okay, Latin America or Southeast Asia, they grow them tiny south of the equator. I don't know why some people are very tall and some are very short. I am not a biologist or geneticist. I think she had to be four foot?
I'm almost 6 foot. She also either had a frontal lisp, it was the mask, or a heavy accent with the mask - muffled her speech. I had to listen closely to what she was saying and ask at various intervals. (I'm used to doing this - I've done it my entire life - since I naturally mishear things. Also, having grown up with a speech issue which took me about twenty-five years to overcome, and sucking at languages - I'm patient with folks, more so than most. You won't survive in NYC if you aren't?)
Afterwards - I over taxed my knees by wandering to and from grocery stores and stores along Court Street. Managed to pick up various GF pre-prepared foods and items, such as Feel Goods: Vegetable Egg Rolls, Soup Dumplings, and Mozzarella Sticks, GF Deli SourDough Seeded Bread, Gluten Free Pizza,
GF Ravioli, GF Biscuits, GF Clam Chowder, GF Chicken Vegetable Soup (Hale and Hearty)...among other things. It was a haul - so heavier than intended.
I didn't get sweets - or baked goods at least, outside of some chocolate sandwich cookies. Icing my knee now.
It's slightly warmer today - made it up to 58 degrees and 60 in some locals. As a result, small children have been playing noisily in the backyards behind me, screaming as only small children cas. Brings back memories of my own childhood - when I had a sprawling backyard, no fences, and woods that seemed to stretch for acres behind us (it didn't - I was small).
3. Still enjoying my book - I actually look forward to reading it - and consider doing it instead of other things. And think, no let's draw this out. Why I love it and haven't been able to get into other books (some admittedly better written) is beyond me? I think it's that this one has a writing style and trope that I'm craving at the moment?
What's going on in the book at the moment? The heroine is trying to survive in a system of alien caves that she got trapped inside while on an "work related" expedition. It's a science fiction/action adventure/mystery novel with a romance hidden in there somewhere. Possibly under one of the rocks. (No, I'm kidding - it's a slow burn, the romantic leads haven't met yet, there's two leads, and they aren't even in close proximity, and the heroine has every reason on the planet not to trust nor like the male lead. The heroine is also kick-ass, and fighting giant wasps at the moment with her German Shepard sidekick named Bear. She's fighting the wasps so that she can save a spider egg and give it as a gift to the humanoid/insectoid spider herders. (Actually this may be why I think of spiders as insects? I've read and watched too many fictional stories that refer to them in that regard? As bugs? I forget that no, they eat bugs, they aren't bugs.)
So she can get across the cavern floor and to the anchor (anchoring the cave between the portal to her world and the portal to the breach world), and from there find her way back to the gate to her own world and get home.
(I told you it was a convoluted plot.) And the male protagonist or rumored romantic lead is busy trying to figure out what wrong in the mission, how she got trapped or killed, and why his top escort leader and protector only got out of the mission alive with three people and lost twelve. There's a lot of detective work, politicking, investigating and stragetizing in this book - also problem solving. (And I love stuff like that. And am apparently craving it - also urban fantasy, sci-fi, fantasy novels slanting towards mystery with a touch of romance. And a strong female and male leads.)
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Date: 2026-03-22 09:43 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2026-03-22 01:57 pm (UTC)Same with doctors - some do some don't.
My practice is if I have a head-cold or am sick - I wear the mask, and avoid people as much as possible. Otherwise I don't bother. (I got COVID wearing a mask at work, while the person I was chatting with - and I was about five feet away from him, wasn't. That was the first time I got it - along with six other people, who also wore masks. My family had similar experiences. So we only wear them when we get sick ourselves.)