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stoutfellow) wrote2012-06-28 02:30 pm
stoutfellow) wrote2012-06-28 02:30 pm
Miscellany
1. The cold seems to have abated, but I'm still staying home today as a precaution. I'll have to go onto campus tomorrow, though; there's a campus-wide power shutdown scheduled for Sunday, and I need to turn off my office computer. (I have an option if the cold does flare up tomorrow, but I'd rather not use it.)
2. Buster has regained his vim; he's been romping with Gracie a lot the last couple of days. (In fact, he's been trying to do things he's not supposed to be able to do any more....)
3. I finished reading Jim Butcher's Side Jobs the other day; it's a collection of short stories in the Dresdenverse. One of them is "The Warrior", which I'd already read, but the rest were new to me. It's uneven in quality, but a couple of the stories involved POV characters other than Harry Dresden; one was narrated by his half-brother Thomas, and the other (set after the events of Changes) by Karrin Murphy. Not a bad collection. I went on to Dragon Keeper, by Robin Hobb, which looks pretty good so far. Interspersed in the main story is a series of pigeon-carried letters between two, mm, call them news agents. Not bad.
4. It is hot. We've got a heat advisory in place until Saturday evening. On the return leg of the dogs' walk this morning - around 10 AM - Buster flopped down in the shade of a tree and was very reluctant to get up again. We were less than half a block from home, though, and I finally chivvied him into continuing. I may have to get them out for their walks considerably earlier in the day.
5. I find it very odd to be pleased with John Roberts and utterly infuriated with Anthony Kennedy. I think I'll revise my forecast on the Prop H8 case; I'd rather see SCOTUS deny cert (thus affecting only the Ninth Circuit) than risk another surprise from AK.
2. Buster has regained his vim; he's been romping with Gracie a lot the last couple of days. (In fact, he's been trying to do things he's not supposed to be able to do any more....)
3. I finished reading Jim Butcher's Side Jobs the other day; it's a collection of short stories in the Dresdenverse. One of them is "The Warrior", which I'd already read, but the rest were new to me. It's uneven in quality, but a couple of the stories involved POV characters other than Harry Dresden; one was narrated by his half-brother Thomas, and the other (set after the events of Changes) by Karrin Murphy. Not a bad collection. I went on to Dragon Keeper, by Robin Hobb, which looks pretty good so far. Interspersed in the main story is a series of pigeon-carried letters between two, mm, call them news agents. Not bad.
4. It is hot. We've got a heat advisory in place until Saturday evening. On the return leg of the dogs' walk this morning - around 10 AM - Buster flopped down in the shade of a tree and was very reluctant to get up again. We were less than half a block from home, though, and I finally chivvied him into continuing. I may have to get them out for their walks considerably earlier in the day.
5. I find it very odd to be pleased with John Roberts and utterly infuriated with Anthony Kennedy. I think I'll revise my forecast on the Prop H8 case; I'd rather see SCOTUS deny cert (thus affecting only the Ninth Circuit) than risk another surprise from AK.