Bits and Bobs
Oct. 12th, 2015 02:42 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
nightdog_barks1) Remember when I said the weather had definitely changed? Well, I lied. Or, I think the better description is THE WEATHER LIED. It is 91 degrees right now (32.8 degrees Celsius). Tomorrow the high is supposed to be 89. Yesterday it was 90. IT IS SUPPOSED TO BE 78 OR BELOW. //weeps//
2) Finished Bettyville and really liked it. Started Richard K. Morgan's Altered Carbon and am generally enjoying it so far.
3) Still walking at night with Layla and I think we are up to almost two miles (I will have to take my pedometer to be certain). We are not seeing nearly as much wildlife -- we saw a pair of armadillos last week and a cottontail a few weeks ago, but just crickets and toads otherwise. Mister Nightdog sees rabbits almost every morning early when he and Layla walk, but there's just not very much at night now.
4) Speaking of Layla, this morning Mister N was mixing up a cleaning compound for the kitchen sink (vinegar, baking soda, boiling water) and she barked at the whistling teakettle. And then, for good measure, she barked at the plastic jug of vinegar on the kitchen counter. Because it was Wrong. :D
5) A missing piece of the Epic of Gilgamesh has been discovered! It's a slightly more complete version of Tablet V, and new details include birds, monkeys, and cicadas in the Cedar Forest, home of the gods. There's a somewhat longer report here, with more pictures.
Five things, as they say, make a post. :D
2) Finished Bettyville and really liked it. Started Richard K. Morgan's Altered Carbon and am generally enjoying it so far.
3) Still walking at night with Layla and I think we are up to almost two miles (I will have to take my pedometer to be certain). We are not seeing nearly as much wildlife -- we saw a pair of armadillos last week and a cottontail a few weeks ago, but just crickets and toads otherwise. Mister Nightdog sees rabbits almost every morning early when he and Layla walk, but there's just not very much at night now.
4) Speaking of Layla, this morning Mister N was mixing up a cleaning compound for the kitchen sink (vinegar, baking soda, boiling water) and she barked at the whistling teakettle. And then, for good measure, she barked at the plastic jug of vinegar on the kitchen counter. Because it was Wrong. :D
5) A missing piece of the Epic of Gilgamesh has been discovered! It's a slightly more complete version of Tablet V, and new details include birds, monkeys, and cicadas in the Cedar Forest, home of the gods. There's a somewhat longer report here, with more pictures.
Five things, as they say, make a post. :D
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Date: 2015-10-12 11:03 pm (UTC)I'm reading the most marvelous collection of short stories, Specimen. The author's biography is a story unto itself. "Irina Kovalyova has a master's degree in chemistry from Brown University, a doctoral degree in microbiology from Queen's University, and a MFA in creative writing from University of British Columbia. She is currently a senior lecturer in the Department of Molecular Biology and Biochemistry at Simon Fraser University. She has previously interned for NASA and worked for two years as a forensic analyst in New York City. She was born in Russia and currently lives in Vancouver."
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Date: 2015-10-13 03:14 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2015-10-14 03:50 am (UTC)It's not a good year for the weather.
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Date: 2015-10-17 03:46 am (UTC)