Scattered Stuff
Dec. 2nd, 2008 11:15 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
mythicalgirlMy brain is all over the place today, which is a fairly common occurrence when I'm trying to figure out a particularly tricky piece of code. It means that the solution is working itself out in my back brain. Evidently the effort makes the rest of my brain jump the tracks. *sigh*
So here's a list of stuff that is currently swirling around inside my skull.
- A couple of coworkers came in sick today. They have since been sent home - a good indication that they were too sick to be here in the first place. Which means that the odds are good for an epidemic of office plague in the next week or so. With one person it is a cold. Two and it is "something going around". When half the office is out I call it plague.
- I read The Suspicions of Mr. Whicher over the holiday break. Can I just say Wow? I love history as everyone knows and I like murder mysteries but I've never really gotten into true crime. But this book was just amazing. It combines a history on the event in question and a treatise on the beginnings of detective fiction in Victorian England, all written in a style more consistent with a mystery than a history book. I found myself not wanting to put it down. I think I read nearly 300 pages in one sitting. The narrative gets a little bogged down on occasion, possible from the author trying to take on too much information at once, but other than that I was spellbound. Definitely a book I'm glad to have read.
- No movies lately. My attention span for books has been great but for movies or TV? Not so much.
- I had a whole rant about the latest blog entries over on the LKH blog (I know, I was going to stop reading. Think of it like a car wreck) and then another rant about some of the too-personal snark on the various pages devoted to LKH (not the nice ones, obviously). But I decided what's the point? It's not like the people who read my blog don't know how I feel about both.
- It snowed yesterday and last night. The world was beautiful and my fellow drivers on the road were a bunch of drunken monkeys. If anyone in the Midwest doubts that it is winter then they haven't been paying attention.
- I had asparagus with dinner last night. Enough said.
OK, time to switch back to my program and see if anything has clicked.
Stay warm out there. And watch out for the drunken monkeys.
So here's a list of stuff that is currently swirling around inside my skull.
- A couple of coworkers came in sick today. They have since been sent home - a good indication that they were too sick to be here in the first place. Which means that the odds are good for an epidemic of office plague in the next week or so. With one person it is a cold. Two and it is "something going around". When half the office is out I call it plague.
- I read The Suspicions of Mr. Whicher over the holiday break. Can I just say Wow? I love history as everyone knows and I like murder mysteries but I've never really gotten into true crime. But this book was just amazing. It combines a history on the event in question and a treatise on the beginnings of detective fiction in Victorian England, all written in a style more consistent with a mystery than a history book. I found myself not wanting to put it down. I think I read nearly 300 pages in one sitting. The narrative gets a little bogged down on occasion, possible from the author trying to take on too much information at once, but other than that I was spellbound. Definitely a book I'm glad to have read.
- No movies lately. My attention span for books has been great but for movies or TV? Not so much.
- I had a whole rant about the latest blog entries over on the LKH blog (I know, I was going to stop reading. Think of it like a car wreck) and then another rant about some of the too-personal snark on the various pages devoted to LKH (not the nice ones, obviously). But I decided what's the point? It's not like the people who read my blog don't know how I feel about both.
- It snowed yesterday and last night. The world was beautiful and my fellow drivers on the road were a bunch of drunken monkeys. If anyone in the Midwest doubts that it is winter then they haven't been paying attention.
- I had asparagus with dinner last night. Enough said.
OK, time to switch back to my program and see if anything has clicked.
Stay warm out there. And watch out for the drunken monkeys.
