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Happiness is a New Computer When Your Old One Develops Blinking Screen Syndrome

And my old one, I mean the one I bought a year ago January. ARGH. Still, new computer. Always a bright side.

What was a bright side for you this weeK?

Admin: Computer troubles

I just did something horrible to my laptop and the screen is flashing and leaping about, so if I suddenly disappear from here for a couple of days, I’m fine, but my computer is not. Carry on.

The Damned Family Reunion, Episode 2

This is a Good Book Thursday, April 4, 2024

I read all the stuff I was writing–Rocky Start, Very Nice Funerals, the beginning of The Honey Pot Plot, my notes on a fourth Rocky Start book, a lot of Egg Cup flash fiction–and now I really need to read somebody else besides me and Bob.

What did you read this week?

Working Wednesday, April 2, 2024

Bob told me to stop thinking and just write, but I ignored him and went to sleep and dreamed a solution to a scene I was having problems with and then when I woke up, I thought about it some more and told him what I thought, and now we’re doing four Rocky Start books instead of three, which means more work for me.

Moral: Stop thinking.

What did you work on this week?

The Damned Family Reunion, Episode 1

Happiness is Respair

This popped up in my Facebook feed last week:

I finished the edit on Rocky Start, got my new freezer into the kitchen, and did several Damned Family Reunion jpgs for the next couple of weeks. Also made pasta, mustard chicken and two kinds of stir fries for the new freezer (shouldn’t that be stir frys?) sorted a lot of yarn, changed my bedding, and plugged in the rechargeable sweeper. I am on a roll. Definitely in respairing happiness.

How were you happy this week?

(Also a warning: Tomorrow is April Fool’s Day. If you have fools in your vicinity, beware.)

Liz, Vince, and KU

For those of you with Kindle Unlimited, all three Liz Danger books are on there now. And thank you, Bob.

Back to Work

This is a Good Book Thursday, March 28, 2024

I’ve reached the last in the Aaronovitch Rivers series, one I’ve only read once. I was a little confused the first time I read this one, so this is a fun reread. Well, he’s always fun. It’s been interesting from the PoV of somebody now writing series to see how he’s arced his protagonist. Peter Grant has matured from a wet-behind-the-ears new cop to a ranking officer, from a guy with no moves to the father of twins, so of course the stories have changed. But Peter is still the smart-mouthed smart guy he always was, so I’ll continue to read him no matter what. Especially to see how the twins turn out since the love of his life is not exactly . . . human. So much fun.

What did you read this week?