rolanni | Six for Gold (Reply)

Saturday. Sunny and cold.

Breakfast was rice cakes and cream cheese with the last of the grapes. Kettle on for second cup of tea. Lunch with be Leftover Feast. Except for the apple pie. The apple pie is long gone.

Stayed up late last night to watch the last three episodes of Magpie Murders. For some reason, I had thought that there were only five episodes, and I had made a commitment to the cats that we would learn whodunit before we went to bed.

In the end -- well done, all! I liked Mr. Horowitz' commentary, and his description of, having written what must be a very tight book, needing to unravel and re-knit it into another sort of sweater entirely.

I did sort of blink at Mr. Horowitz' comment, which I may have read, not heard, that when he started writing books, there was no Amazon, no internet, no computers.

Well . . . yeah. I wrote my first (second, third, fourth ...) short story on a manual typewriter; we wrote Agent of Change on an electric typewriter. There were, of course, computers in existence at that time, but they were behemoths that were housed in their own substantial wing and bathed in freezing cold air. There was also an internet -- Steve used to do card creation on the proto-internet, back in his curation days (note the juxtaposition: he was creating cards to go into a physical card catalog on the internet).

Anyhow, I've had Magpie Murders in my TBR pile for a while, so that's queued up for next read, now that I've finished Salvage Right. I don't usually see the movie first and then read the book, so this will be interesting.

My next door neighbor dropped me a note this morning, offering snow removal assistance, which I've accepted. I s'pose I'll call the guy I thought I hired on Monday and ask if he's still on.

I really don't understand the people who say, "Yes! I will do this thing, for which you will pay me!" who then never show up, never phone, just -- poof! Why on earth would you say yes if you have no intention of doing the thing? Surely, it's much less hassle to just say, "Nope, sorry. Can't do it." Then everybody's on the same square, no one's aggrieved, and your karmic load isn't disbalanced.

So! Today, is Change Out Computers Day! Always an exciting event. This also means that I may be scarce for a bit. Please talk among yourselves.

What're you doing that's exciting today?