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Monday, March 20, 2006

A Wizard of Earthsea

A Wizard of Earthsea (1968) Ursula K. Le Guin

Strangely enough, as much fantasy as I read, I’d never gotten around to reading Ursula K. Le Guin’s Earthsea Trilogy. I’ve had the books for a couple of years, but for one reason or another, never got around to reading them. It’s a short book, my copy has only 183 pages (same for the reprint I just looked up), so I kept putting off reading it until a time when I needed a short book to read. Well, that time seems to be now.

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The Tombs of Atuan (1970) Ursula K. Le Guin

The second book in the Earthsea Trilogy, The Tombs of Atuan tells the story of Tenar, who becomes Arha, the Eaten One, and High Priestess of the Nameless Ones. Tenar is taken from her home at the age of five becuase she is the reincarnation of Arha. The tombs beneath the city are her realm and her responsibility.

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Sunday, March 19, 2006

Monsters Everywhere

And this? Made me laugh out loud.

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Heather

Spring is on the horizon, so you know what that means!

Flower pr0n!

The heather and crocuses are blooming right now, but I haven’t gotten a picture of the crocuses (and now probably won’t). But I got two nice pictures of the heather. What I like best about these pictures is they look better than the heather does as an whole plant.

The heather has just limped along for the past four years, but it’s still there, and it’s blooming, so I suppose I don’t have much call for complaint.

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What I Did During My Vacation

Okay, are you prepared to be jealous?
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Saturday, March 18, 2006

Brokedown Palace

Brokedown Palace (1986) Steven Brust

I don’t know how long it’s been since I read Brokedown Palace, but it was long enough ago that I didn’t remember any of the story, and I don’t think I’d yet read many of his books other than the first couple Vlad Taltos books. Which meant that there were plenty of pleasant surprise in store for me as I reread this book.

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Thursday, March 16, 2006

Quizzy

At least I’m not a zombie.
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Monday, March 13, 2006

Odds & Ends

It’s spring break here at WVU, so posting will be sporadic.

Not that I’ve been consistent or anything for the past several months, but still.

In the meantime, here’re some bits I’ve come across that might amuse you:

Current Earth Destruction Status (found several different places)
and
How to Destroy the Earth (I may actually have mentioned this before)

Hamster Tracker

And let me tell you, I know y’all have been jealous of our spring break travails in the past, but this year… just wait till you see the details!

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Friday, March 10, 2006

YAY!

Michael has a job!

YAY!

The delay has been that he had to pass a background check. But they just called him to set his start date!

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Friday Time Wasting!

Hindu dieties!
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Wednesday, March 8, 2006

Good Thoughts

If you have any spare good thoughts, please send them towards Akron. Michael’s grandmother apparently had a mini-stroke this morning. She seems to be doing okay, but will probably be in the hospital for a few days.

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Tuesday, March 7, 2006

Psst! Buddy! Wanna Buy a House?

So back to talking about Morgantown, I knew that Morgantown was more expensive than many other parts of the state, but I hadn’t realized how much more expensive.

The Morgantown MSA Economic Monitor shows Morgantown as having a higher cost of living index than Charleston, Martinsburg, or even Pittsburgh. Which completely boggles my mind, since I thought Martinsburg was suppose to have the hottest housing market in the state.

Apparently not.

Now all things considered, I’m not saying we’re up there with big cities or anything like that, but we do have a higher index than several very large cities, namely, Houston, Atlanta, Cleveland, and St Louis.

But check out the article, it’s very interesting.

Maybe we need to finish fixing our house up just a little faster…

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Monday, March 6, 2006

Random Quiz

I think unpredictable might be more accurate.
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Sunday, March 5, 2006

Lots of de Lint

Michael’s been studying. Guess what I’ve been doing.

Moonlight & Vines (1999) Charles de Lint

The third (I believe) Charles de Lint short story collection, Moonlight & Vines returns again to Newford. Although it starts and ends with a Christie Riddell story, and there are plenty of appearances by the characters with whom we’ve become familiar, there are also new characters, some we’ll meet again, and some who seem to appear only this once.

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Memory & Dream (1995) Charles de Lint

Memory & Dream is not my favorite Charles de Lint book. Partially, because I keep forgetting that it’s a novel and not a short story collection, so I pick up the book, start reading, and then think, “boy, this is a really long story.” Then I remember that it’s a novel, and I have to shift my expectations. It seems like a small thing, but it always throws me off, just at the point where I’m getting into the story.

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Jack of Kinrowan (1995) Charles de Lint

Jack of Kinrowan is actually two books: Jack the Giant Killer and Drink Down the Moon.

In Jack the Giant Killer, the Seelie Laird of Kinrowan’s daughter has been stolen by the Unseelie Court, despite the fact that she was being escorted by the Gruagagh. And the Unseelie Court also has the Horn that controls the Hunt, so the Gruagagh–even if he were still trusted by the Laird’s court–is trapped in his tower and unable to help, while no one else has the power to help. Except, maybe, a Jack.

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Documentary

Setting: Michelle, at the sink, washing pans and bowls after having mixed together a batch of chocolate shortbread. Michael, at the kitchen table, reading. In the basement, the dryer has just buzzed.

Michelle: Hark, from the wilds of the basement, the clarion call of the dryer.
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Pause.
Michelle: Man callously ignores the piteous cries of the dryer, allowing its sad cries to continue unabated.
Pause.
Michael: Man, sensing danger, gets up.

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