A Monday List
In no particular order, what's going on in my head:
- I'm through Late Eclipses in my reread of the October Daye series by Seanan McGuire, and I need to say (once again, this isn't the first time) this author is a genius and if you love fae stories or urban fantasy or both, you really, REALLY should give this series a try. It's immensely complex but totally accessible, and there are rich layers of story and history that build and build, but the hints and foreshadoing are all there from the very beginning. Absofucklutely amazing.
- My Twitter feed now provides me with a cat, a bird, a possum, a wholesome meme, and a fox every hour, plus one Aziraphale meme and a silly gender description per day. This makes the rest of my online life in 2020 more bearable.
- Black lives matter, trans lives matter, the United States Postal Service deserves to be freed from its obscenely punitive business restrictions, the US presidential election is 77 days away, and Covid-19 is running rampant through the American population.
- #3 is the reason I need my hourly fox fix and visit from BirdBot. Yeah. I should add a few more happybots to dilute the doom.
- 2020 is the kind of year when Iowa can essentially get hit by a hurricane and not make the headlines anywhere else.
- I am 1/3 of the way through the final revisions on Sharp Edge of Yesterday by chapter count, but it's closer to halfway through by pages. (87 of ~210 pages) I should probably take a closer look at that. The shit has hit the fan (AKA I've hit the first rising action) and the plot complications are piling up. Good times.
- Our new old house is getting a shiny new skin REALLY soon now. Fingers crossed the last 3 windows to get finished & the weather holds. Then it will take 2 weeks(ish) to replace the upstairs windows, add eaves & adequate ventilation to the roof, do a redesign on the gutter & downspout system, and button it up with pretty new siding. ALSO VERY EXCITING. YES.
That's all for now. More when I think of it. Until later!
