Tomorrow

I still haven’t had time to make all the release notes on the books I released in Dunedin, but at least I’ve managed to journal the ones I caught: The Years with Laura Díaz by Carlos FuentesWhy Can’t a Man Be More Like a Cat by Linda Konner and Antonia van der MeerI Capture the…

Total = 150 books January (15) Nation by Terry Pratchett The Wave by Morton Rhue Vanishing Acts by Jodi Picoult Dancing Cats and Neglected Murderesses by Edward Gorey (cartoons) Angela: A Wonderful Life by Angela D’Audney Revenge of the Middle-Aged Woman by Elizabeth Buchan (library audio book) The Island of the Colour-Blind and Cycad Island…

Well, we’ve survived the first few days of the visit. The Outlaws are almost over their jetlag, I’m almost used to sleeping on a camp stretcher (we’ve given them our bed, so we’re in the spare room on stretchers), the cats are almost used to having strange people in the house, and the weather has…

(FutureCat slinks back into the room after a long silence. Life’s just like that sometimes.) Yesterday a very rare occurrence happened – I actually caught a book in the wild. I of course pick up books at meetups and conventions all the time, and through various forms of controlled release, but if I can’t count…

Went to visit lytteltonwitch at the hospital tonight. She’s looking about as well as can be expected after surgery, which by the sound of things was a bit more complicated than they expected. She was hoping to get out tomorrow, but it looks like they’re going to keep her in for a few more days….

I hadn’t actually planned to take leave this week, but I actually looked at my pay slip last week, and suddenly noticed that my accrued leave was getting to the point where our HR department would start harassing me to use some of it up. And then I looked at my diary and realised that…