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rolanniTonight, Steve and I are going to see “The King’s Speech,” possibly the last people on the planet to do so. We will, I believe, be home before the snow — I believe it’s to start as snow — begins, around midnight, heralding the arrival of what I make to be three solid days of various sorts of precipitation. This? Will be fun, considering that the driveway is already a quagmire.
The first year we were in this house, we had a sudden and exceptionally sodden Mud Season. In fact, we lost a UPS truck in the driveway, when the driver inadvertently backed onto the supersaturated service. He was able to leap to the safety of the tarmac, but there was no saving the truck. It’s still under there; occasionally a mud-smeared box or plastic envelope will rise to the surface. And I must say that the driveway is much more stable in that section.
While I’m here, I want to remind the procrastinators among us — you know who you are — that there’s still time to vote in the Locus Poll for your favorite work of science fiction and fantasy from 2010. Drop-down boxes helpfully give the titles of those works which appear on the Locus Recommended Reading List; write-in spaces are also provided.
The Locus Poll is a reader poll. Anyone can vote. Please only vote once. Mr. Kelly takes a dim, dim view of “ballot box stuffing.” As he should. If you participate, please also be truthful about your gender. Mr. Kelly has in the past had a difficult time believing that women read SF in numbers.
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Date: 2011-03-09 11:01 pm (UTC)I trundled over to Locus, but... I've only read a couple of the books listed. I'm just catching up with 2006 books about now.
It's a shame too, since I would love to help disparage Mr. Kelly's odd beliefs.
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Date: 2011-03-09 11:13 pm (UTC)You do, however, have to stick with 2010.
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Date: 2011-03-10 10:04 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-03-10 01:34 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-03-10 02:15 am (UTC)Locus Poll
Date: 2011-03-10 07:35 am (UTC)Re: Locus Poll
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Date: 2011-03-10 04:32 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-03-11 09:08 am (UTC)That is crazy. What was the rate of sinkage? Does that sort of thing happen often?
-Meara
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Date: 2011-03-10 06:18 pm (UTC)certain friend and she's, well, flaky. S'ok...I like her anyway.
We just haven't made it due to a variety of reasons.
I should have realised how much rain we'd get when I saw the Maryland Flood Watch runs from Wednesday night through noon Friday.
Aiee, thank God this isn't snow. Or Ice.
Like the UPS truck story - I hope it sank AFTER it delivered to
you. Our UPS drivers wait until Jackie (my Jack Russell) notices
them and starts to bark before driving off. As you can imagine,
neither the dog walker nor I appreciate this as once he starts,
it's nigh impossible to get him to STOP. I keep saying, "Gone! All
gone. The land is safe from the barbarian brown guys." Nope. He's
gotta tell 'em how he'll disembowel the tires and bury the lug
nuts even though they're now a mile gone. Sigh. He *is* cute. And
he's quiet a lot of the time. And he likes cats.
Lauretta@ConstellationBooks
PS The Library Book Club is reviewing Ted Venetoulis' 'Hail to the
Cheat' tonight - but the author won't be there. Michael Olesker
is converting it to a screenplay and *he'll* be there. I always
liked Michael Olesker's columns in the Sun...should be interesting.
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Date: 2011-03-11 12:33 am (UTC)Also? After a day that wasn't dreadful, but had little to recommend it, I came home to mail that included Skyblaze. This greatly improved the day, and I thank you.
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Date: 2011-03-11 01:16 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-03-11 01:17 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-03-11 02:45 am (UTC)The books are mailed by order received, not by state.
And!
There are roughly 900 to ship, total, so obviously they go into the mail in batches.
...this does make the delivery lottery hard to predict, but it's good to be surprised.
Right?
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Date: 2011-03-11 01:36 am (UTC)