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Sunday catch up
It's definitely winterish now. We're getting what may be the major rainfall of winter, since it doesn't do this sort of wet very often these days. Once or twice a winter, according to the BOM. I gave up on getting the clothes dry outside and the dryer is now buzzing along, doing its utmost, while I do my journal and budget and see what I need to reply to. We don't want to go commando tomorrow now, do we?
This Sunday I've messed around getting boring house and garden stuff done but that's ok. Got some exercise hiking to shops, since I wasn't getting much in the way of groceries and didn't need a bike. I've started doing the dumbell exercises again, so here's hoping I manage not to rupture something :-) [Strained a shoulder previously].
I haven't done much writing today but did some yesterday and also worked on my Curious Fictions posts. I'm starting to put up some experimentals, i.e. stuff that has not been published from my Nightsiders universe. Some of the future work will be (after this first story, Last Lesson) limited to subscribers. Also, thank you to whoever tipped me on that first story (g). And to Leece for being my number one favourite fan and commenting on my stuff. And reminding me I needed to write an "about" post. And writing about my Curious Fictions efforts on her own blog! And for being awesome.
Do people want to hear from the devious plotters, in re the Nightside material? Who thought the Evac was a good idea and had the clout to put it into action? What dastardly plans they had which they never mentioned to people, being politicians? I tend to find things out by writing about them, btw, so I also learn things which I didn't know at the start. It's easier to write stuff from the POVs of ordinary folk, of course, since then you don't have to plot so much and/or break your brain.
On Friday I finally bought a book that wasn't a low cost e-book, but an actual book from Stefen's Books. First one for the year. I'm still reading a lot of stuff and recording that on Goodreads but they haven't been books I own unless they're rereads. Most are from the library. This one is called The Gone World by Tom Sweterlitsch and is a crime novel with sf elements, which seemed to do it fairly well from what I knew. Stefen said that also. Apparently crime writers who try sf do it better than sf writers that try crime (as in writing about it). We'll see.
As for TV, I've started watching Chernobyl the series which seems very good, though I'm a little thrown by all the British accents as I had expected it to be Russian or at least European. [And you're not European any more, are you, Brits - or are you?] One of the creepiest scenes for me was the people who gathered at a distance to watch the fire and smoke from the devastated nuclear plant and talk about how beautiful the colours were, while the breeze carried tiny particles all around them....
And btw, re my previous question about the fate of Pepper, the rat featured in the German series 8 Days; the sad news is that no, Pepper did not survive to go into a bunker with everyone else. He died in a typically ratty fashion, though. The father of the family had a brain spasm and decided he was going to kill everyone to save them suffering (his wife was a doctor and had brought home the wherewithal) so he poisoned a very delicious looking dish of lasagne. Pepper, who was free range, unfortunately sampled the lasagne first and was found by the wife, thus giving warning of the husband's intent and saving his family.
They had an honest-to-Gods rat funeral in the back yard! So it was pretty sad, but at least they did right by Pepper.
This Sunday I've messed around getting boring house and garden stuff done but that's ok. Got some exercise hiking to shops, since I wasn't getting much in the way of groceries and didn't need a bike. I've started doing the dumbell exercises again, so here's hoping I manage not to rupture something :-) [Strained a shoulder previously].
I haven't done much writing today but did some yesterday and also worked on my Curious Fictions posts. I'm starting to put up some experimentals, i.e. stuff that has not been published from my Nightsiders universe. Some of the future work will be (after this first story, Last Lesson) limited to subscribers. Also, thank you to whoever tipped me on that first story (g). And to Leece for being my number one favourite fan and commenting on my stuff. And reminding me I needed to write an "about" post. And writing about my Curious Fictions efforts on her own blog! And for being awesome.
Do people want to hear from the devious plotters, in re the Nightside material? Who thought the Evac was a good idea and had the clout to put it into action? What dastardly plans they had which they never mentioned to people, being politicians? I tend to find things out by writing about them, btw, so I also learn things which I didn't know at the start. It's easier to write stuff from the POVs of ordinary folk, of course, since then you don't have to plot so much and/or break your brain.
On Friday I finally bought a book that wasn't a low cost e-book, but an actual book from Stefen's Books. First one for the year. I'm still reading a lot of stuff and recording that on Goodreads but they haven't been books I own unless they're rereads. Most are from the library. This one is called The Gone World by Tom Sweterlitsch and is a crime novel with sf elements, which seemed to do it fairly well from what I knew. Stefen said that also. Apparently crime writers who try sf do it better than sf writers that try crime (as in writing about it). We'll see.
As for TV, I've started watching Chernobyl the series which seems very good, though I'm a little thrown by all the British accents as I had expected it to be Russian or at least European. [And you're not European any more, are you, Brits - or are you?] One of the creepiest scenes for me was the people who gathered at a distance to watch the fire and smoke from the devastated nuclear plant and talk about how beautiful the colours were, while the breeze carried tiny particles all around them....
And btw, re my previous question about the fate of Pepper, the rat featured in the German series 8 Days; the sad news is that no, Pepper did not survive to go into a bunker with everyone else. He died in a typically ratty fashion, though. The father of the family had a brain spasm and decided he was going to kill everyone to save them suffering (his wife was a doctor and had brought home the wherewithal) so he poisoned a very delicious looking dish of lasagne. Pepper, who was free range, unfortunately sampled the lasagne first and was found by the wife, thus giving warning of the husband's intent and saving his family.
They had an honest-to-Gods rat funeral in the back yard! So it was pretty sad, but at least they did right by Pepper.
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You just described our current summer D:
Good luck with the weight training!
"It's easier to write stuff from the POVs of ordinary folk, of course, since then you don't have to plot so much and/or break your brain."
LOL definitely agreed.
I've heard good things about that Chernobyl series, but I think it's gonna be a bit too dystopian for me rn. Although we're still European, just about :\
At least Pepper got a noble death!
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I just had a look at your city's weather report and yikes, you weren't kidding! Today, the rain is tailing off - we had several storms in rapid succession over about five days - and the temperature was somewhere between 9 and 17^C and your maximum was lower than that. I guess people must get used to it. But my mum, who comes from Leicester, still bitches about the cold each winter. And the heat, of course, when that comes, even though she'd visited Perth before moving out and presumably had some idea of what she was in for.
Did you know that one reason Capt Cook gave such a glowing account of Botany Bay in NSW, with green grass and flowing streams etc, was that it was autumn and they didn't realise, so when the First Fleet got there in full summer, they had something of a rude shock :-)
True, sorry, you definitely are part of Europe still. (For now). I was thinking more in terms of Eastern Europe, if not Russia itself, but I guess Russia is still a bit too sensitive on the subject to make such a program about Chernobyl. It's worse than a dystopia, because as far as I can tell, it's accurate history. Very, very scary. I didn't know a tenth of that story. And for some reason this show is making people want to travel there as tourists. I don't get people, I really don't.
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Haha no I did not know that about Captain Cook!
Yeah, Chernobyl and similar just really scares me. I'm a child of the 80s and therefore perma terrified of nuclear war in a way that I'll just avoid it, I'm not even grimly fascinated or anything.