In Process -- April 2016

1st draft

“Water Leopard”. Had roughly 44,250 words at the start of the month. Now it’s more like 52,000.

Editing

"Lucky Kate”. Done.

“The Cicatrix Diary”. Almost done.
“Volcano”. Typed.

Connecting

Ad Astra.

Circulating

Knitting

Tilted Duster (Norah Gaughan IK Fall 2007). Done.

Rust Damask Jacket (Takle & Kolstadt). At the start of the month I had about 3” of the second sleeve done, and one row of the neckband colorwork, after having just ripped it out which sucked because I had to redo the setup row on the stranded portion, and that’s always the hardest part. I’ve now finished the colorwork on that neckband, meaning this project has both an easy/mindless component (neck) and hard/attention component (sleeve) and then it will be done. Unfortunately, neither part is portable.

DragonFruit Socks. Just started, so I would have something to carry around. I lost a “faithful reader” a couple of months ago and inherited all her sock yarn. There’s no place to keep it, so I guess I need to knit a whole bunch of socks. Socks for Everyone! These ones are for me.
Boot Topper Socks. Gift, because it's not all about me... just mostly.

Best TW feedback ever

Over at the dayjob, SMEs are feverishly trying to get documents back to me all marked up, in preparation for the release that's supposed to happen the week I'm back from VP. Today's best comment: Unfortunately not true. SMEs, they're so cute.

Moraine

So a couple of days I thought I was done with this short story, and I wrote the last line of the story. I even dated it (that's how I can tell it's over). It was a little long, at 6600 words (I was aiming for 5000). But then I was walking to work, and I thought, "My, that was a lame ending. My endings are all crap." So yesterday morning, I scribbled out the date and wrote a bit more. And this morning I wrote a bit more again, and I dated it and called it done. And still, that ending seemed lame. So a few minutes later, in the last paragraph, I scratched out "the Oak Ridges Moraine" and wrote in "that stupid moraine". Much better. Now I can move on. But in the meantime, I was doing a little research about the Moraine, and I discovered that EGTourGuide lives on it. Only by one or two hundred feet, but I thought it was funny. Good for you, EGTourGuide, with all those excellent plants growing on that substandard soil, where in the olden days (you kno...

What I read: March 2024

LHC #240: "Vita Nostra" by Maryna and Serhiy Dyachenko. Translated by Julia Meitov Hersey. All I knew going in was dark academia. This was a neat thing to read after A Deadly Education last month. The students can leave this school at summer and winter break, but maybe they shouldn't. Also, interesting education method, providing Sasha with a CD player and punishing her if she leaves it in the mode where it plays all the tracks in sequence. "Norse Mythology" by Neil Gaiman. When I finished Ragnarok by AS Byatt (last month? January?) I was thinking it might have made more sense if I had any knowledge of the subject matter. The boy had left this lying around, and it was not a tough read. LHC #241: "Science on a mission: How Military funding shaped what we do and don't know about the ocean" by Naomi Oreskes. I deferred this once because it was so long. History of science is challenging for me to read, because of the need to get a grasp on dispr...

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