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Another Deryni novel, the newest, got from the library as it's still in hardcover. I am about halfway through this one. It's good. Some of her novels are hit and some are miss - I have the hardest time with some that may actually be quite good, the ones following the time of Camber when all turns against the Deryni, which are miserably painful reading in terms of what's happening. I don't think I ever finished that series, in truth.
I was not sure what to make of this, which said it was in another time, but it's fascinating. It predates the Kelson books, but post-dates Camber. And it pre-dates Kelson by only a generation or two, I think more the latter, so that you are often encountering the characters from the later series (Kelson, whose timeline is the first she wrote of), but are almost always astonished to meet them (several of them make their first appearance at their births!). And it's interesting to see characters alongside them whom I surmise must be long-dead by Kelson's time, for they were never mentioned then, and yet are of an age with those who were....
I have had books turn before the end so I disliked them, but so far this is a very promising one. I am not letting myself read any more of it tonight, for fear I would not get to bed on time, if that says anything of its quality.
Most of today was work, and work-aday. It has been in the forties now but there is still snow in the parking lot where, rather than leaving it be, they plowed it into vast piles on late Friday apparently (I've now talked to someone who saw it). Like, 4:30 pm on Friday. No one works there the weekend and it was supposed to thaw, so in all likelihood the snow would have been completely passable by Monday. As it is, there are still piles and I suspect they will survive at least into the day tomorrow if not clear to evening. Some are three or four feet deep, mounds as large across as they are tall, and all around them green grass clearing. The last of our lawn is clear, and the pasture, although where you drive if there are shadows - like the ditches - then there is still snow. Where it was thick, there is snow. The sidewalks are crusted with the last remnants of snow-shell coated in sand and general muck. But at work, the snow-mounds are practically a work of art - not a pretty one, for they're covered in dirt and sand even there, but fascinating all the same, the snow in chunks in some cases. Very stupid, but amusing.
Tonight, besides the reading, I have not done much. Scott's friends are over for a game, which we had not remembered until tonight, but the kitchen and living room were cleaned, pizza was (as always) ordered, and they are having a good time from the sounds of it.
And since I've taken my birthday - Friday - off, then I've only tomorrow to work to round out the week. Though it feels strange. It's been so long since I've been in the office for a whole five-day work week. Christmas week, we got two holidays and I took that Friday off so I only worked two days and had a five-day weekend. The next week was new year's, and I took Friday again, working three days and taking a four-day weekend. Then the next week we got snowed in, so that I worked Monday from the office and the rest of the week from home (except for Thursday's trip to the office, which turned out to be a very good idea as they were able to get the CDs and use them, and I was able to use the tools I had set up!). Then this week I've a day off - and Monday is a company holiday - so I work four days and get a four day weekend, work four days...ah, but from there it's back to a normal schedule. I hope I can keep a normal schedule, I've quite forgotten what one is!
I was not sure what to make of this, which said it was in another time, but it's fascinating. It predates the Kelson books, but post-dates Camber. And it pre-dates Kelson by only a generation or two, I think more the latter, so that you are often encountering the characters from the later series (Kelson, whose timeline is the first she wrote of), but are almost always astonished to meet them (several of them make their first appearance at their births!). And it's interesting to see characters alongside them whom I surmise must be long-dead by Kelson's time, for they were never mentioned then, and yet are of an age with those who were....
I have had books turn before the end so I disliked them, but so far this is a very promising one. I am not letting myself read any more of it tonight, for fear I would not get to bed on time, if that says anything of its quality.
Most of today was work, and work-aday. It has been in the forties now but there is still snow in the parking lot where, rather than leaving it be, they plowed it into vast piles on late Friday apparently (I've now talked to someone who saw it). Like, 4:30 pm on Friday. No one works there the weekend and it was supposed to thaw, so in all likelihood the snow would have been completely passable by Monday. As it is, there are still piles and I suspect they will survive at least into the day tomorrow if not clear to evening. Some are three or four feet deep, mounds as large across as they are tall, and all around them green grass clearing. The last of our lawn is clear, and the pasture, although where you drive if there are shadows - like the ditches - then there is still snow. Where it was thick, there is snow. The sidewalks are crusted with the last remnants of snow-shell coated in sand and general muck. But at work, the snow-mounds are practically a work of art - not a pretty one, for they're covered in dirt and sand even there, but fascinating all the same, the snow in chunks in some cases. Very stupid, but amusing.
Tonight, besides the reading, I have not done much. Scott's friends are over for a game, which we had not remembered until tonight, but the kitchen and living room were cleaned, pizza was (as always) ordered, and they are having a good time from the sounds of it.
And since I've taken my birthday - Friday - off, then I've only tomorrow to work to round out the week. Though it feels strange. It's been so long since I've been in the office for a whole five-day work week. Christmas week, we got two holidays and I took that Friday off so I only worked two days and had a five-day weekend. The next week was new year's, and I took Friday again, working three days and taking a four-day weekend. Then the next week we got snowed in, so that I worked Monday from the office and the rest of the week from home (except for Thursday's trip to the office, which turned out to be a very good idea as they were able to get the CDs and use them, and I was able to use the tools I had set up!). Then this week I've a day off - and Monday is a company holiday - so I work four days and get a four day weekend, work four days...ah, but from there it's back to a normal schedule. I hope I can keep a normal schedule, I've quite forgotten what one is!
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