I wrote about this more here, but figured this is easier than cross-posting. Thanks to the Ottawa 67s Booster Club and the team and especially Ryan Van Stralen for making the day so memorable for Trevor!
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Once again, here is the Authors born/died on this day list on ISFDB. So many new people born!
We usually have CBC Radio 2 on in the background at home (a sign of impending old fogeydom?). Saturday evening, they played a set of jazzy covers of non-jazzy songs, including “50 Ways to Leave Your Lover” done by Sophie Milman. It got me and Sweet talking about a website that we both loved back in the day that closed up shop in 2003. Brunching Shuttlecocks made me laugh every week, but alas, it’s gone. They did movie reviews, Flash animation bits, silly things like the “Alanis Morrisette Lyric Generator” (yes, the site was that old…) and my favourite, Ratings. To taste what the Intertubes have lost, here is Brunching’s rating of the ways to leave your lover, as per the song (thank you, Internet Archive, for existing!). Most of the interactive stuff doesn’t work, but I’ve had a nostalgic giggle or two going through the ratings again.
And now, for Dan’s sake: Really, Really Big Tires! I tried to get the Really, Really Big IKEA behind them, but I had to take the shot I could as traffic only stopped for a moment, but you can kind of see it in the background…
Instead of blathering on about it every other day, I’ve decided to add a progress bar for the Wheel of Time. Look to my right, err, your right! Err, the sidebar! OK, so this thing isn’t perfect (the end seems to be hanging off a bit), but it’ll do. I came to 10000 pages because that’s how many (I assume) are in my editions. I know the last one isn’t out yet, but the first fourteen books (including New Spring) come to 9173, and it is conceivable that the last one could hit 827 pages (Towers of Midnight is a hefty 843).
Anyone know how to shrink that progress bar so it fits?
Going to bed early is harder than it seems! I have tried to hit the sack by 10:30pm every night, and only succeeded once. That one time I tossed and turned until midnight so I will not deem that a success. I have woken up early every day, and have had at least an hour to myself each morning. Note that this makes me very tired and cranky. Hopefully the going to bed early bit will kick in soon. I have managed to write and the crankiness has not seeped through, yet. Yet.
I’ve starting walking at lunch, but it has hurt. The temperature dropped this week and I suffered the last two days at -20C. Today in comparison was absolutely balmy.
Wheel of Time, despite its immensity, has engaged me. I have finished 20% of EotW, and I expect to accelerate once I stop working. This might be tempered by a pile of books that have been on my waiting list at the Library that are all suddenly waiting for me at my branch.
Working is hard/easy, because I can see the finish line ahead of me in two weeks (Aside: I listened to the Sweden/Finland world junior semi-final game on the radio, and smirked every time the play-by-play announcer said that a Swede had crossed the Finnish line).
PS: Dan says I don’t have enough pictures in my posts. Better?