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The Words of the Night by C. Chancy
A historian is on a plane to Korea when it is attacked by a dragon.
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A historian is on a plane to Korea when it is attacked by a dragon.
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Roadkill included a smeared mess on Main Street that I am calling a woodchuck based on fur color alone. Also, an intact crow by the roadside. First year bird miscalculated?
More chicory blooming, more bindweed, more milkweed, more water parsnip, more of the cursed purple loosestrife. Think I saw some mullein shoots, flowers not open yet.
USMC still defending our airport, both Ospreys and helicopters.
Got out on the bike, across town and back and that bridge is now open to traffic both ways, so no more detour! Did not die.
15.71m, 1:31:02
More chicory blooming, more bindweed, more milkweed, more water parsnip, more of the cursed purple loosestrife. Think I saw some mullein shoots, flowers not open yet.
USMC still defending our airport, both Ospreys and helicopters.
Got out on the bike, across town and back and that bridge is now open to traffic both ways, so no more detour! Did not die.
15.71m, 1:31:02
Air temperature 63 F, southwest wind 4 mph, cloudy. Showers and a thundershower south and west of us, but fading and not really aimed here. Trash out. May get a bike ride in, if the Marines don't attack first.
Today I finished the latest book in the Baru Cormorant series (fourth book remains to-be-released), The Tyrant Baru Cormorant. Y'all, Baru is so back.
! Spoilers for books 1 & 2 below !
! Spoilers for books 1 & 2 below !
If you've looked at other reviews for the series, you may have seen book 2, The Monster Baru Cormorant, referred to as the series' "sophomore slump." I disagree, but I understand where the feeling comes from. The Monster feels like a prelude, a setting of the board, for The Tyrant. The Monster puts all the pieces in place for the cascade of schemes and plays that come in The Tyrant. They almost feel like one book split into two (which is fair—taken together, they represent about a thousand pages and would make for one mammoth novel).
If you felt like Baru was too passive in The Monster and that there wasn't enough scheming going on, I can happily report those things are wholly rectified in The Tyrant. Having located the infamous and quasi-mythological Cancrioth at the end of The Monster, Baru wastes no time in whipping into full savant plotting mode.
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Air temperature 64 F, wind south about 3 mph, cloudy. Rain showing on the weather radar across town, not reported at the airport site. Dew point 61 F, so the sticky abides. Walk later?
When in doubt, send the Marines. USMC aircraft flocking over at the base, including a pair of (metal) Ospreys coming in for a landing just as I headed across the end of the runway. Funny-looking things.
First goldenrod blooming, tansy, continued St. John's wort. And the first purple loosestrife of the season, bedamned invasive weed.
No fresh roadkill. There *may* be a different dried-out skunk on my detour road, since I haven't been over that section in more than a week.
Got out on the bike, air temperature 78 F when I got home so marginal conditions for my aged body. Did not die.
15.58 miles, 1:30:55
First goldenrod blooming, tansy, continued St. John's wort. And the first purple loosestrife of the season, bedamned invasive weed.
No fresh roadkill. There *may* be a different dried-out skunk on my detour road, since I haven't been over that section in more than a week.
Got out on the bike, air temperature 78 F when I got home so marginal conditions for my aged body. Did not die.
15.58 miles, 1:30:55
Air temperature 63 F, wind near calm, fog at the airport. Clearing here, sunshine. Hill-side's dew-pearled. Bike ride probable.
Does anybody have a functional crossposter from Wordpress (a private site, not the .com) to Dreamwidth? It turns out the one I was using doesn't work with scheduled posts, which I've been doing, and furthermore is abandonware so I'm deeply, deeply reluctant to pay money to use it to crosspost. And at this point, Dreamwidth is so legacy internet that nobody newer is crossposting to here.
Air temperature 65 F, wind north 9 mph, rain shower on the weather radar but not seen here. Breakfast internalized after a "fasting" blood draw at a lab across town. Glad they open at 0600 . . .
On to coffee.
On to coffee.
“When Fascism comes to America, it will be wrapped in the flag and carrying a cross.”
Attributed to Sinclair Lewis, but probably not.
Attributed to Sinclair Lewis, but probably not.
Air temperature 70 F at 0630, wind near calm, sunny. Dew point 67 F, so that soup's on. Another nasty day, and that's just the heat. AQI and pollen index both "moderate." Will walk early. Do not expect cat friends to be available.
Thunderstorm rolled and rumbled through this evening. Moved on now but hasn't cleared the air, still hot and sticky out there. Waxing moon shines through the murk.
Back from walk, 78 F out there and damp. All cat friends had enough sense to stay inside. First thistles, bell-flowers blooming, nightshade, bindweed. Even birds mostly silent, but we have seen some juvenile robins about.
Air temperature 66 F before 7 AM, wind south about 8 mph, partly cloudy. We are headed for a high of around 90 F and rising dew point. Think I'll skip the bike ride and swap in a walk. After all, I do want to live to see the apocalypse.
Air temperature 63 F, wind west about 7 mph, partly cloudy. Dew point 53 F, so the humidity hasn't kicked back up. Yet. Tomorrow is supposed to revert to hazy hot and humid. We live in the frozen north to avoid that shit . . .
White sweet clover, rabbits'-foot clover, and rambling roses now blooming. Definitely both yarrow and Queen Anne's lace. Cattails and sumac flower spikes up but not open yet. Almost all the lupines have gone to seed.
No roadkill identified, not even a squirrel. Several blotches on the asphalt, but the cleanup crew has been active.
Got out on the bike, upriver and then back through the bog. Paving project on hold for the weekend, but they have advanced and may get done in a week or two. Did not die. Ride takes me over 200 miles for the year, half of what I would like to have done by this point.
15.59 miles, 1:31:35
No roadkill identified, not even a squirrel. Several blotches on the asphalt, but the cleanup crew has been active.
Got out on the bike, upriver and then back through the bog. Paving project on hold for the weekend, but they have advanced and may get done in a week or two. Did not die. Ride takes me over 200 miles for the year, half of what I would like to have done by this point.
15.59 miles, 1:31:35
Power out for about an hour this morning, after a boom up the street. Back on now. Found a corpse in the sidewalk on my local survey.
Air temperature 64 F, wind northwest gusting to 21 mph, partly cloudy. Should be able to get a bike ride in.
Air temperature 64 F, wind northwest gusting to 21 mph, partly cloudy. Should be able to get a bike ride in.