Well things over here have been rather stressful, or at least inconvenient.
Over the past week on each and every given day either my lady or I have been a combination of feeling really ill, or feeling really tired, or both.
Indeed we were supposed to be going to a local wind band concert this afternoon supposedly playing film music as now the local theatre is within walking distance only it looks like I'll be going on my own.
To compound that, the wireless on my windows 10 laptop has gone on the fritz and randomly seems to be turning itself off. Not the network, the entire wireless capacity. The problem? unlike my good old xp Toshiba this has no switch to just turn it back on and running the diagnostic just tells me to push the damb switch or turn on via the function keys.
I've tried various function key combos to no avail, and since I don't know the model number I'm not sure what the exact combination is, or why it's randomly turning off for no reason, then mysteriously coming back a few hours later only to equally mysteriously vanish again.
What is even odder, is that it hasn't done this before on any of the other wireless networks I've been on.
It's currently in an off phase, so no email or games for me, though I've hijacked my lady's laptop at least long enough to check the forum, which isn't ideal.
god I want my desktop back!
Okay, winj over.
On the plus side, I've been reading the startrek rereads over on tor.com, which are sort of interesting, even if I don't agree with the guy reviewing all the episodes.
I would post a link, but guess where all my favourites links are? that's right, on my currently unwired laptop, but googling startrek rewatch and looking on tor.com should find them for anyone interested.
I've also been reading another nebula awards sf collection, which has been good as usual, although all the complaining about repetitive films and franchise milking in the early nineties rather makes me smile (I wonder what those cryticis think these days).
Next up I do need to get back to book reviews, and I want a break from fantasy after Robin hobb so it's a toss up at the moment between Coline Mcculla's first man in rome, which is a series I really want to start though they are very long, or Octavia Butler's parable of the sower, since I fansy doing something with a different setting and I've not read anything apocalyptic since I did cell last year.
With our dreaming and singing, Ceaseless and sorrowless we! The glory about us clinging Of the glorious futures we see,
Our souls with high music ringing; O men! It must ever be
That we dwell in our dreaming and singing, A little apart from ye. (Arthur O'Shaughnessy 1873.)