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Addendum to barely constructed Thursday evening reviews:
I finished my digital copy of New Amsterdam by Elizabeth Bear which i did not find challenging to read at all but a pleasant diversion. Zeppelins! (Challenging to read brings to mind a book in Christine's stacks, that has the text interleaved between reading front to back or flipping the book over and reading front' to back'.) I've also just finished the twenty fourth edition of The Year's Best Science Fiction, which appears to be for 2006. In the collection is "The Pacific Mystery," another alternative history, with Zeppelins! Well, a Zeppelin like airship. Elizabeth Bear had a coauthored story in the collection about rescuing a politically censored play from the Elizabethan thought police: less engaging, i found.
August approaches, another cross quarter day, and the year turns. I had noticed the dimming of the evening on Wednesday when i was in a bad mood, and wondered if it was more my mood. But in hindsight, yes, we're at the point on the sinewave pattern of day length* where we rapidly slip from long to short crossing the equinox.
I didn't follow through on advocacy blogging about Colombia in July. (Someone else does: http://1peaceatatime.blogspot.com/2009/07/5-new-us-military-bases-in-colombia-is.html) August, i had planned, would be a month of quiet, before taking up new committee roles in September as clerk. I had written, "3) Assuming i am on an additional committee in September, between the initial meeting of that committee and New Years, i may choose to continue the one focus area or i may replace it. I will not hold myself to do anything for that focus, though."
I've plenty of committee work to do in August though. [And plenty of work for Friday morning, which i then went about.]
* approximation, see http://herbert.gandraxa.com/herbert/lod.asp#toc64 -- this seems to leave out any effects due to the changing distance between sun & earth. To the precision of my experience, a sine wave is good enough.
I finished my digital copy of New Amsterdam by Elizabeth Bear which i did not find challenging to read at all but a pleasant diversion. Zeppelins! (Challenging to read brings to mind a book in Christine's stacks, that has the text interleaved between reading front to back or flipping the book over and reading front' to back'.) I've also just finished the twenty fourth edition of The Year's Best Science Fiction, which appears to be for 2006. In the collection is "The Pacific Mystery," another alternative history, with Zeppelins! Well, a Zeppelin like airship. Elizabeth Bear had a coauthored story in the collection about rescuing a politically censored play from the Elizabethan thought police: less engaging, i found.
August approaches, another cross quarter day, and the year turns. I had noticed the dimming of the evening on Wednesday when i was in a bad mood, and wondered if it was more my mood. But in hindsight, yes, we're at the point on the sinewave pattern of day length* where we rapidly slip from long to short crossing the equinox.
I didn't follow through on advocacy blogging about Colombia in July. (Someone else does: http://1peaceatatime.blogspot.com/2009/07/5-new-us-military-bases-in-colombia-is.html) August, i had planned, would be a month of quiet, before taking up new committee roles in September as clerk. I had written, "3) Assuming i am on an additional committee in September, between the initial meeting of that committee and New Years, i may choose to continue the one focus area or i may replace it. I will not hold myself to do anything for that focus, though."
I've plenty of committee work to do in August though. [And plenty of work for Friday morning, which i then went about.]
* approximation, see http://herbert.gandraxa.com/herbert/lod.asp#toc64 -- this seems to leave out any effects due to the changing distance between sun & earth. To the precision of my experience, a sine wave is good enough.
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