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Yesterday late afternoon into the wee hours i read the First three books in Jeffery Carver's "The Chaos Chronicles": Neptune Crossing, Strange Attractors, The Infinite Sea. For the record, these are pretty much like a wizards and magic story with the the unlikely hero being gifted with unaskedfor powers (the mental presence of the Quarx, the so high-tech-as-to-be-magic daughter stones), thrust into a land where he must journey with an unlikely band of strangers to fight the evil force of a mysterious monster, continuing in their journey together to discover why they seem to be sent on this journey. The phrases chaotic attractors and nanotech get thrown around, but it's more an adventure story and discovering & growing with new powers. Fun.

I'm trying to decide if i dare buy more Baen books for the trip to the JCDL. I can imagine that i would lock myself in my hotel room and binge read as i did last night. Well, it's not like i can't spring for it later.

Today has had some posting to the gcc blog, much much catching up with everybody else. I am going to have to trim twitter somehow. And Facebook. Geeze.

I just found how bad my Texas geography is. Yikes. I think i essentially had Dallas and Austin switched in my mind. Oh well.

So, also today so far: some time gardening --
pruning back the lavender, the sage, and some of the flowers,
weeding out some catnip from the mint & volunteer tomatoes and trying to transplant the cat nip
weeding out some of the tomato volunteers so the mint may thrive
breathing in the heady scent from another flush of Meyer lemon blossoms
trimming back and deadheading lots of scented geranium

Some time watching Wall-E with Christine, which did have some sweet parts and i was well amused.

Short call with my mom & some crochet.

I can't believe how late in the day it is! And i haven't really started "important" stuff. And we're heading out shortly....