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Saturday, January 05, 2008
Woooo! My Seahawks won a playoff game, like I figured they would. It was a bit annoying to have all the announcers be so on the 'Skins bandwagon, but that cinderella story crashed and burned. Coming next week at Lambeau field, Hasselbeck saying, "We want the ball, we're going to score!" (Last time we played a playoff game at Green Bay, we won the overtime toss with Matt saying that, and he nearly immediately threw an interception for a touchdown losing the game. D'oh! I still love the quote, we were laughing our asses off when he said it.) Friday, January 04, 2008
Last night I went shopping for books, I had two $25 gift cards, one to the University Bookstore and one to Barnes and Noble that I found in my wallet from some random time last year, possibly last Christmas. (D'oh!) I had two goals, I needed a copy of Heinlein's "The Rolling Stones" (his only juvenile that I'm missing) and I needed to replace my copy of "Deadly Quicksilver Lies", one of Glen Cook's "Garrett, PI" series. It's gone missing, and B is up to that one. Neither store had either, sadly. Looks like I need to spend a few minutes on Abebooks.com and buy 'em used. I laughed hard looking at the table of new scifi/fantasy at the U Book Store. I swear there were a dozen books set in modern times except with magic/demons/vampires/werewolves, ala Laurel Hamilton's Anita Blake series. It was pretty amusing, I guess that subgenre has kicked alternate history's ass as the flavor du jour. I bought 3 books, "I Am Legend", the new book by Spider Robinson where he took some extensive notes that Heinlein had made for a book and then never written, and wrote it channeling Heinlein. The blurb reviews rave about it, I'll withhold judgement until I read it. I also picked up an SM Stirling book with dinosaurs on Venus. Amusingly, three $7.99 books plus tax ended up being $25.01, so I gave the cashier my $25 gift card and a penny. WOo! Speaking of Heinlein, I just finished "The Cat Who Walks Through Walls". I've got the original first edition mass market paperback from 1988, and haven't re-read it since. It's basically a sequel to both "The Moon is a Harsh Mistress" and "The Number of the Beast". At the end, he was throwing characters from most of his previous works into the mix. It's also the second book that opens with two characters meeting in trying circumstances and immediately getting married. I guess he was a big believe in love at first sight. Now I'm reading "I Am Legend", pretty good so far. |
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