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No more raccoon noises as of yet. This is encouraging. There's still a trap in the attic and no one has ventured into it either.

The last critical piece of software is finally installed on my new Linux VM at work with some help from one of my coworkers. And there was much rejoicing.

K had an orientation session for her summer job today. She's also taking a CPR class, so that will be two of us in the family who have done that. I did it for the last season of girls softball.

(Bum, bum, bum, bum, Staying alive, Staying alive...)

There is a whole lot of stuff that needs to be done around the house. Perhaps we will do some of it this weekend.

Or perhaps I will go to the basement and do some recording.

Or both!

cathrowan

Pedicure and new shimmery toenail polish. An orange and cardamom latte from a new-to-me indie coffee shop. A bunch of tulips to put on the dining room table.

james_davis_nicoll

Who is the secret traitor? The former boy wonder, the wonder girl, the alien princess, the cyborg, the shape-shifter, the spooky witch, the speedster, or the geokinetic who frequently brags about being evil and betraying the team?

The Judas Contract by Marv Wolfman & George Pérez

billroper

Tonight, we watched the finale for "Chicago Fire". This means that our broadcast TV schedule is now down to the "Alert" finale next week and some undetermined number of episodes of "Sherlock and Daughter".

Time to get back to streaming!

james_davis_nicoll

The complete Omnibus with the rules and eight settings for Awfully Cheerful Engine, the cinematic action-comedy tabletop roleplaying game.

Bundle of Holding: Awfully Cheerful Engine

mrs_sweetpeach

( Click here for Week #20 )

Current Mood: sleepy
Current Location: Home and on my corner of the couch
Crossposts: https://mrs-sweetpeach.insanejournal.com/788585.html

james_davis_nicoll

Darn kids, always battling ghosts and exposing conspiracies and making a mess...

Five SFF Works About Meddling, Mystery-Solving Kids

james_davis_nicoll

Recent third-party tabletop roleplaying adventures for Old-School Essentials.

Bundle of Holding: OSE Treasures 2

james_davis_nicoll

An assortment of short pieces from the author of Delicious in Dungeon.

Ryuu no Gakkou wa Yama no Ue Kui Ryouko Works By Ryōko Kui

billroper

Having heard babies in the attic after Momma Raccoon was taken away, a different fellow came to set a trap for them in the attic. He was very thin though and realized that he could shimmy into the narrow space above our vaulted ceiling in the attic and then reach the baby raccoons with his grabber. He collected all of the baby raccoons that he could find and put them in the traps. The four of them were *extremely* cute when he brought them down.

He was still sitting in his truck outside when there was more noise from the attic above the living room, which was noticed because Gretchen and K hadn't gotten out of there yet. This meant that he could be asked to return to the attic and not long after that the fifth baby raccoon had been collected.

We now believe that there are no more baby raccoons.

We hope we are right.

And *someone* has gotten a very good review...

james_davis_nicoll

Got a notice from Campus Health that I may have been exposed to measles in Hagey Hall on the 8th, between 5 PM and 11 PM.

Oddly, that's not a one-to-one correspondence with my shift on the 8th. My shift started at 3:45 PM. The client's company was there before me, so if they were the source, the warning should begin earlier. I wonder what time Plant Ops evening shifts begin?

james_davis_nicoll

A horny but pious Mormon and a hot but godless scientist witness the wrath of an angry god.

That Leviathan, Whom Thou Hast Made by Eric James Stone

billroper

It was back to work this morning. With some help from one of my coworkers, my new Linux VM is *almost* correctly configured. It is, at least, capable of being used to do work. :)

james_davis_nicoll

Rulebooks, Adventure Anthologies, + 4 adventures for the Old-School Essentials tabletop roleplaying rules set from Necrotic Gnome.

Old-School Essentials Advanced Fantasy Bundle

james_davis_nicoll

But not the Planet Nine You May Expect

james_davis_nicoll

Beware of smooth-talking hustlers, frauds, scammers, and charlatans!

Five Books About Imposters, Swindlers, and Con Artists

james_davis_nicoll

1997: The UK wins Eurovision, the BBC foolishly embraces that passing fad known as the internet, and Tony Blair wins a razor-thin 179 seat majority.

Poll #33137 Clarke Award Finalists 1997

Open to: Registered Users, detailed results viewable to: All, participants: 33

View Respondents

Which 1997 Clarke Award Finalists Have You Read?

View Answers

The Calcutta Chromosome by Amitav Ghosh
3 (9.1%)

Blue Mars by Kim Stanley Robinson
18 (54.5%)

Gibbon's Decline and Fall by Sheri S. Tepper
10 (30.3%)

Looking for the Mahdi by N. Lee Wood
4 (12.1%)

The Engines of God by Jack McDevitt
12 (36.4%)

Voyage by Stephen Baxter
5 (15.2%)

Bold for have read, italic for intend to read,, underline for never heard of it.

Which 1997 Clarke Award Finalists Have You Read?
The Calcutta Chromosome by Amitav Ghosh
Blue Mars by Kim Stanley Robinson
Gibbon's Decline and Fall by Sheri S. Tepper
Looking for the Mahdi by N. Lee Wood
The Engines of God by Jack McDevitt
Voyage by Stephen Baxter

james_davis_nicoll

I made a positive contribution to work by proposing a sign for the perennially-blocked door 10 that warning people that door is an emergency door and not to be blocked. Door 10 is in a short corridor next to a change room and people keep commandeering it to store stuff. Specifically clients. I think I may have annoyed the client last Friday by informing them I wasn't going to open the theatre until that exit was cleared.

Of course, nobody will read the sign but at least it will be there.

Not as annoying as the time the Hack the North kids decided the best place for a pile of duffle bags was against the outside of door 8, one of the two main balcony entrances.

The legion of house managers got a long form of things that we're expected to do, each section of which we had to initial before returning it. I was not the only one who read it looking for sections that might have been inspired by something I did or did not do.

billroper

K is officially a high school graduate. It was a nice ceremony, given the limitations of having to hand out diplomas to nearly 500 students while finishing in two hours. :) (All of the Maine schools were using the same facility, so the ceremonies were on a tight schedule to finish in one day.)

Afterwards, we all went out to a late lunch with a number of K's friends and their parents and relatives at a Korean BBQ, which was quite an experience. And the conversation was good.

I always like good conversation.

james_davis_nicoll

Guy Montag and his wife Millie live comfortable, conventional, middle-class lives. Millie finds purpose in an endless stream of television entertainment. Guy burns books.

Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury

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Bundle of Holding: OSE Treasures 2

Ryuu no Gakkou wa Yama no Ue Kui Ryouko Works By Ryōko Kui

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That Leviathan, Whom Thou Hast Made by Eric James Stone

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