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Miscellany
I finished Heart of Light by Sarah Hoyt. I'm unsure whether to recommend it to anyone else or not. It's a high fantasy Victorian British Empire setting, mostly in Africa, and the tale is fascinating. But. Some of what the author does is so heavy-handedly not prejudiced, it's prejudiced. A few parts are just...human-motivation implausible. And the author seems to thrive on the idea that your main characters being idiots (in ways I can't explain without spoilering) is good for story. I wanted to strangle them. Almost every chapter, for the first, oh, 90% of the book, I wanted to strangle at least one main character. And with one exception, she's predictable - when you see a Big Reveal over 250 pages before anyone else figures it out, a) she telegraphed too much and b) the main characters are idiots. So...sadly, I don't think I can strongly recommend it. But if you like that type of setting, it's an adventure tale, and you might hit the library. That's about the best I can give it, though. (That said? That said, I'm getting the next one from the library because I am curious how it turned out. Argh.)
Apple is being distressingly cute. She attacks bugs. Bugs on the outside of windows. This never seems to work quite as well as she hoped it would. She'll stand by the glass doors to the deck and jump up and go for a speck at about doorknob height (or a bit higher) and she hits the point. Silly glass, keeping her from her prey!
Yesterday, when I stopped at Haggen to get some food (like that lovely salad I had), I found that they were having A Very Bad day. They'd had a roof leak. Fortunately they're open 24 hours, and anyway it happened at 7 am, so they caught it and were mostly able to divert it and save things. Nonetheless, it had roof tiles out and people working cleanup across...oh, eight aisles? Ten? It had run in a diagonal line, it looked like, from back near (but just in front of) the bakery, forward into the pharmacy area. So much stuff under it to be ruined. Besides the pharmacy it went over some in each aisle of the boxed and canned foods. It did miss bulk foods, the bakery, and produce, and the frozens and meats are in another part of the store entirely. They were not having a good day. They were doing their best to get customers what they needed, from the back and from things that hadn't been damaged. (Oddly, nothing I needed was in a damaged area, though some were at the other ends of aisles with damaged spots.)
Apple is being distressingly cute. She attacks bugs. Bugs on the outside of windows. This never seems to work quite as well as she hoped it would. She'll stand by the glass doors to the deck and jump up and go for a speck at about doorknob height (or a bit higher) and she hits the point. Silly glass, keeping her from her prey!
Yesterday, when I stopped at Haggen to get some food (like that lovely salad I had), I found that they were having A Very Bad day. They'd had a roof leak. Fortunately they're open 24 hours, and anyway it happened at 7 am, so they caught it and were mostly able to divert it and save things. Nonetheless, it had roof tiles out and people working cleanup across...oh, eight aisles? Ten? It had run in a diagonal line, it looked like, from back near (but just in front of) the bakery, forward into the pharmacy area. So much stuff under it to be ruined. Besides the pharmacy it went over some in each aisle of the boxed and canned foods. It did miss bulk foods, the bakery, and produce, and the frozens and meats are in another part of the store entirely. They were not having a good day. They were doing their best to get customers what they needed, from the back and from things that hadn't been damaged. (Oddly, nothing I needed was in a damaged area, though some were at the other ends of aisles with damaged spots.)