... the IT man in LibraryLand
So whilst one was laid up with deadly flu one managed to complete the reading of one's "I" entry in the A to Z of Unread SciFi and Fantasy Authors - The Road to Mars by Eric Idle.
This volume was placed - nay, snuck - into one's hands by Sneaky Pete and therefore nullified the requirement for any crowd sourcing.
It was a mildly amusing humourous sci-fi that took a while to get going and then rollicked along to a reasonable ending.
Three stars.
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One Flu Over the 5 Year Old's Party
So Hulk had her fifth birthday party yesterday to the theme of Launch into Space!
So there is nothing as easy as helping to run a party for five year olds while one is coming down with suspected flu (fingers crossed it is not Man-Flu) preceded by a nigh-hallucinatory evening of sleep.
Luckily Salsa Girl had produced her usual consummate party preparation without which all would be lost, and all one had to do was help out here and there and be pummelled and hounded by five year olds as the incredibly Space realistic Green Monster Daddy for 3 hours.
The all-over body aches persist today for some reason so one's week long recovery period begins forthwith.
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Side note: When One declared that I could dress as a Jedi I was firmly informed, "No Dad! Star Wars isn't real, this party is about the real planets and real space!" She then went on to wear her googly antennas and be a Martian for the duration of the party.
So there is nothing as easy as helping to run a party for five year olds while one is coming down with suspected flu (fingers crossed it is not Man-Flu) preceded by a nigh-hallucinatory evening of sleep.
Luckily Salsa Girl had produced her usual consummate party preparation without which all would be lost, and all one had to do was help out here and there and be pummelled and hounded by five year olds as the incredibly Space realistic Green Monster Daddy for 3 hours.
The all-over body aches persist today for some reason so one's week long recovery period begins forthwith.
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Farewelling Supervisor S
So this week we have farewelled Supervisor S who has alighted (alit?) for other pastures with other duties that presumably don't involve having to supervise any of the most immovable of objects - the library IT staff.
It was a tender and teary farewell do, with lovely hot foods and drink and a magnificent multi layered abstract recreation of the Brighton library in cake (and oh no I've eaten too much) form courtesy of Days of our Libraries.
There was speechifying, and hugifying, and the final happy goodbyes where one was able to head home with an enormous aluminium swag of leftovers.
All in all it was good to see the fruit of one's Machiavellian machinations born as now two of one's workplace BFFs - LibraryBFF and Mr Prada - shall be filling the seat for much of the coming year, freeing one from the horrors that Supervisor S used to inflict upon one - such as being expected to do one's job.
But still, her pragmatic approach to the work of libraryland shall be missed.
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It was a tender and teary farewell do, with lovely hot foods and drink and a magnificent multi layered abstract recreation of the Brighton library in cake (and oh no I've eaten too much) form courtesy of Days of our Libraries.
There was speechifying, and hugifying, and the final happy goodbyes where one was able to head home with an enormous aluminium swag of leftovers.
All in all it was good to see the fruit of one's Machiavellian machinations born as now two of one's workplace BFFs - LibraryBFF and Mr Prada - shall be filling the seat for much of the coming year, freeing one from the horrors that Supervisor S used to inflict upon one - such as being expected to do one's job.
But still, her pragmatic approach to the work of libraryland shall be missed.
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A Return to Chalion
After an absence of nigh on six years one's reading has returned to the world of Chalion in the form of the novella Penric's Demon by Lois McMaster Bujold.
It was a welcome return to the world one is so thankful to have been introduced to by Vengeful Vic, and one feels the shove of Fate in stumbling across this 2016 publication recently after musing about missing this much loved world.
At a Badger approved less than 200 pages it was a nice return, albeit more towards the teen style, that didn't outstay it's time.
One looks forward to the further novellas in this series which appear to have sprouted like mushrooms with there being four more at last count - although one is a little trepeditious about having ones reading dominated by 4 star reads for the foreseeable future.
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It was a welcome return to the world one is so thankful to have been introduced to by Vengeful Vic, and one feels the shove of Fate in stumbling across this 2016 publication recently after musing about missing this much loved world.
At a Badger approved less than 200 pages it was a nice return, albeit more towards the teen style, that didn't outstay it's time.
One looks forward to the further novellas in this series which appear to have sprouted like mushrooms with there being four more at last count - although one is a little trepeditious about having ones reading dominated by 4 star reads for the foreseeable future.
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