good timing: also, reading

[ritaxis]

Apparently the desktop is now a brick too. There was a power outage this morning -- but 1) the computer was not turned on at the time and 2) it was plugged into an uninterrupted power supply device that's supposed to protect it from surges and 3) the other thungs plugged into it arren't harmed so I think that's a coincidence.

anyway my new computer's coming Monday. Between the two dead ones I think I'll only have lost a wee bit since the working files are on external drives and also backed up.



On another front, Emma got a substitute zookeeper job and she's so happy she could cry.

And on yet another front, Truffle met a middle-aged yellow labrador named Henry who is cute and pudgy and thinks she is the bee's knees. He wanted to play and play and play with her. His person says he rarely puts anything like that much effort into playing. She likes him well enough, though not as much as "her" puppy.

And, reading: I finished The Song of Achilles and now I have Michael Chabon's Summerland and also Eleanor Arnason's A Woman of the Iron People. I chose these more or less at random at the library.

Comments

[al-zorra.livejournal.com]

Chabon leaves me cold.

I really liked Song of Achilles and Woman of the Iron People.

I'm glad to hear a new computer is coming very quickly. Mine is having problems, which as I don't want Windows 8.1 makes me anxious.

Love, C.

[ritaxis.livejournal.com]

Windows 7 is still widely enough available for the stubborn person to find. I've started the book and I'm sotrt olf doubtful about some nbasic things abou the human behavior -- seriously, why would you send single researchers on their own to a place you've never sent people to before?

the aliens are interesting. I like that she's set up a pair of misfit aliens on their own terms before involving the humans.

[pameladean]

I feel that computers conspire against us, like all appliances.

I'm very glad to hear about Emma's job.

I think A Woman of the Iron People is wonderful and brilliant. Long ago it beat out my Tam Lin for the Mythopoeic Award, and I didn't even mind.

P.