Misc Ramblings
Jul. 15th, 2009 05:19 pm![[personal profile]](http://s.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
mwbworldI'm vaguely, but probably only temporarily, pleased at the progress in my plan to acquire Science Fiction and Fantasy magazines from my tween/teen days of fandom in the 70s.
I now have nearly 200 of them!
Of course, now it slow down because I can't just buy cheap big lots since I have enough issues that I have to look for specific ones to fill in my collection. But that alone is a neat milestone.
Of course I've have to double shelve things to fit them in my bookcases. Such is life with no space.
I've gotten really sidetracked in my reading lately, after going on the urban fantasy kick I went on recently. Most of it was such silly fun I was just reading it exclusively.
I just finished the August 2009 Asimov's and there were only a couple of stories I found memorable. Two Boys by Steven Popkes was a lot of fun, but it's hard to go wrong with tales of Neanderthals trying to cope with the modern world. And California Burning by Michael Blumlein has some promise that almost played out well for me but I was hoping for more in the end. Other than that, I just went through the motions reading it. Next is the September 2009 Analog. Lately, while far from perfect, Analog has been paying off better for me.
Beyond that I'm doing my usual nonsense of reading too many things at once including:
Other stuff...
I had started a well intentioned and noble plan of of briefly doing some yoga and meditating each night, which has fallen apart with two week of starting it. Well, I'll be on vacation the next couple of weeks. So time to start that again.
The constant weather changes has undermined my sleep so much that it has not helped me at all with that - or with much of anything else.
There was an ugly round of layoffs where I work just the other week. I survived but almost 10% of the staff didn't. I can't say the atmosphere it created has done much to improve any of my co-workers moods nor mine. But I should be grateful for steady employment.
I'd be more grateful to be independently wealthy, but sadly I seem not to have selected that checkbox when ordering my life.
I think I'm skipping the new Harry Potter movie. I'll just wait for the DVD. Of course I still haven't watched the DVD for the last one. I suspect once it is all done, I'll watch them all the way through. I do tend to do that a lot. It does make it strange for me to get all enthusiastic for things I just finished watching, often years after everyone else.
But I babble - two hours of sleep will do that.
I now have nearly 200 of them!
Of course, now it slow down because I can't just buy cheap big lots since I have enough issues that I have to look for specific ones to fill in my collection. But that alone is a neat milestone.
Of course I've have to double shelve things to fit them in my bookcases. Such is life with no space.
I've gotten really sidetracked in my reading lately, after going on the urban fantasy kick I went on recently. Most of it was such silly fun I was just reading it exclusively.
I just finished the August 2009 Asimov's and there were only a couple of stories I found memorable. Two Boys by Steven Popkes was a lot of fun, but it's hard to go wrong with tales of Neanderthals trying to cope with the modern world. And California Burning by Michael Blumlein has some promise that almost played out well for me but I was hoping for more in the end. Other than that, I just went through the motions reading it. Next is the September 2009 Analog. Lately, while far from perfect, Analog has been paying off better for me.
Beyond that I'm doing my usual nonsense of reading too many things at once including:
- The Fate of Africa by Martin Meredith. Good overview of the past 50 years of African history.
- Parallel Worlds by Michio Kaku. Always fun super-science, astro-physics, etc.
- Year's Best SF 9 edited by David G. Hartwell. Nothing striking so far, but I'm only 1/3 through it.
- The Turmoil by Newton Booth Tarkington. It hits some great moments, then bog down in longer sections that are somewhat predictable and not exciting.
- She by H. Rider Haggard. Too early to say much, but it is one of the books that started the whole framework for "lost world" novels.
Other stuff...
I had started a well intentioned and noble plan of of briefly doing some yoga and meditating each night, which has fallen apart with two week of starting it. Well, I'll be on vacation the next couple of weeks. So time to start that again.
The constant weather changes has undermined my sleep so much that it has not helped me at all with that - or with much of anything else.
There was an ugly round of layoffs where I work just the other week. I survived but almost 10% of the staff didn't. I can't say the atmosphere it created has done much to improve any of my co-workers moods nor mine. But I should be grateful for steady employment.
I'd be more grateful to be independently wealthy, but sadly I seem not to have selected that checkbox when ordering my life.
I think I'm skipping the new Harry Potter movie. I'll just wait for the DVD. Of course I still haven't watched the DVD for the last one. I suspect once it is all done, I'll watch them all the way through. I do tend to do that a lot. It does make it strange for me to get all enthusiastic for things I just finished watching, often years after everyone else.
But I babble - two hours of sleep will do that.