First you love me, then you say it's wrong

[rolanni]

More words than I thought I'd manage, and in a direction that, while surprising, seems inevitable. We Shall See.

Snow on the overnight, say the weatherbeans. One to three inches of it to drive to work in, then more snow tomorrow, topping off at four inches. Snow showers tomorrow night, Tuesday, and Wednesday.

Taking the rest of the night off to watch "Quantum Leap" -- or, at least, the first episode of same -- with Steve.

Everybody stay warm -- or cool, as may be appropriate.


Progress on Ghost Ship:

27660 / 100000

"Indeed. Reckless to a fault, every one of us. Though Nova displays some sign of possessing common prudence, and -- until lately of course -- so had Pat Rin."

Comments

[(Anonymous)]

I thought Nova's visit to the mercenary planet was pretty reckless.

[sb-moof.livejournal.com]

I think she may surprise us even more. She's the only one in her generation that we haven't seen in a relationship yet. She did turn down Daxflan's captain, whose name escapes me at the moment, but we only have that story second hand from Shan.

[(Anonymous)]

er, Daxflan's Trader, not Captain. PS. The Captain was female.

Brom

[rolanni.livejournal.com]

The visit to the mercenaries wasn't reckless, it was Necessary.

[(Anonymous)]

On the one hand, I agree.

On the other hand that says nothing about whether it was reckless or not.

[mbarker.livejournal.com]

Sure it does. It was reckoned? Hum, I just realized that I consider reckless and reckoned as opposites, but I'm not sure they are. I mean, one might reckon the cost and still do something that most people might consider reckless. It's the lack of thought which makes it reckless to me, not the level of potential cost.

Thanks for the insight into what I laughingly call my thinking.

[keristor.livejournal.com]

I would certainly agree about reckless, and so would British law. The offense of "reckless driving" is that of "driving without due care and attention", in other words not reckoning. Whether other people consider it reckless is anothe matter, since they don't have the information they aren't qualified to judge -- jumping out of a perfectly good aeroplane looks reckless, but skydivers do a lot of preparation and consideration before doing it.

[(Anonymous)]

IMHO, no amount of preparation or consideration takes skydiving out of the reckless category. The only good reason to exit an aircraft in flight is when it is more dangerous to stay than to bail.

Brom

[readinggeek451]

What about paratroopers in wartime?

[(Anonymous)]

They are a trade-off of "acceptable losses" for a swifter movement of light forces to a particular location. Paratroopers receive additional pay. They may call it "jump pay", but it is truly just another form of hazardous duty pay because, for all their training, every drop has high potential of injury or more ...

Brom