Shelves update (yes, another one).

Scott likes how the shelves look in there. So, now I need to ind the studs and make sure we really can anchor them the way I've been thinking. If that's the case, I get to figure out how many extra shelves will be ideal, and then I will have to get the cases, which is another trip to Home Depot with dad (I'm pretty sure the shelf kits, when they come in, will fit in my car, but the bookcases only fit in his truck at an angle, so there's no way they fit in my car).

Fortunately, I have a little time on this. Why do I have a little time on this?

Because I am not putting together another damned bookcase for at least a week. :)

Book recommendation.

K.D. Wentworth's Black on Black is excellent. It's science fiction; while set in a space-faring culture, there's not much in the way of space-faring involved. It's...amazing.

I picked it up on a whim, and almost put it back, as the back cover makes it sound (to me) amazingly stupid. However, I've very much liked this author's fantasy books, and it was a used book, so I gave it a chance.

I'm so very glad I knew of the author. Because putting this book back and forgetting about it would have been a huge mistake. This...is just incredible.

Unfortunately, I'm not sufficiently detached to explain why without spoilers. But I can say that, like Amy Thomson's The Color of Distance, this is a book where the aliens are both alien, and sharply real, intimately real. They are not humans with funny bodies.

Oh: DO NOT READ THE INSIDE FRONT COVER. As a policy, I never read story outtakes till after I have read the story. Books like this are the reason why. The outtake is from page 282 and gives away multiple major plot points by implication.

DRY ICE????

Thanks to Neil Gaiman's journal site, we have this link to a news story about a radio station that had its listeners sit on blocks of dry ice in order to win money. Corresponding entry in Gaiman's journal is from Friday, January 24, 2003 (that's the exact date format used there, and can be searched on) and is the second entry down for that day.

*gawps* They ... had them ... sit on....

OW!

Have I mentioned how lucky I am?

I just went downstairs to start the laundry, empty the dishwasher, and load it with the dirty dishes that have been accumulating on the counter whilst I was being too lazy to take the clean ones out and put them away. I'd made a note that I needed to do it yesterday, but never gotten around to it.

Laundry started, check. Dishwasher...okay, it was full last night. Scott, sometime before he left for gaming today, apparently emptied it out. So I loaded it. Yeah, it's just a small bit of work, but so what? It was nice not to have to deal with it, to feel like half the chore had been taken away.