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Snowpocalypse!! part the second...
Feb. 12th, 2009 11:10 pmAfter all the fun and games of last week's snowpocalypse proper, everyone seems to be jumping on the Severe Weather Warning bandwagon at the drop of a hat these days... to be fair, at work there are Consequences that involve cancer patients, and last Monday was seriously bad, and..
Well, hell, it started snowing before I even left work tonight - big thick fluffy flakes that, er, melted right into the drenching wet streets in town. We had the flooding already this week, and it just wasn't quite cold enough.
(on another note, driving the M25 on Monday night this week was something of a heart-in-mouth experience - torrential rain slicking down so fast I couldn't see the lane markings going up to the Dartford Bridge. Considering the rest of the traffic consisted of idiots in much bigger cars driving much faster than me, and a truckload of foreign truck drivers, this does not a good combination make... the next morning I read that somebody was killed further along having skidded into a fuel tanker. Heh.)
Home being a teensy bit further out of town, the snow has kinda settled here. Not on the roads, I think (so no snow day tomorrow, lol) but the gardens and cars and rooftops are covered thick again. I stood at the bus stop tonight and gazed up at the blizzard under the streetlights making everything look strange. And although the past couple weeks have proved me wrong somewhat, snow is still rare enough around here that it's a novelty...
And while I'm waiting for the last little bit of Lost to dl... Just finished Bone Crossed today, and I think Patricia Briggs played the trauma/ recovery schtick off pretty well, after all that. She has a great way of leaving Mercy in these quietly subdued, slightly mythic scenes near the end of all the books, and I liked the way the finale in this one played out. UF is so obsessed with the bright and shiny, the shipping and the big guns, when all the real power lies in decent writing that stands out a little.
I don't care for her vamps so much, but her fae have a nice way about them (love the walking stick! And it got a little plot point all its own) and the wolves work well enough - although I'm more interested in that in the Alpha & Omega side of that worldbuilding - but I'm bored of Adam now. And while that's killed my reading the Kitty books from now on, I can cope with it from Mercy.
ETA: Lost
'This Place is Death'?! Seriously?! Ya think?!
ACK.
I was really, really hoping they weren't going to do that. Really, really, really.
That sound is me whimpering in the corner while they just killed off my shiny new ship before it even got started.
Man, that was just.. harsh. Poor Char... and Dan's all frakked up before he even starts trying to fix it. Or make it all worse.
Er, can we have Rebecca Mader back now please? Anyone?
Well, hell, it started snowing before I even left work tonight - big thick fluffy flakes that, er, melted right into the drenching wet streets in town. We had the flooding already this week, and it just wasn't quite cold enough.
(on another note, driving the M25 on Monday night this week was something of a heart-in-mouth experience - torrential rain slicking down so fast I couldn't see the lane markings going up to the Dartford Bridge. Considering the rest of the traffic consisted of idiots in much bigger cars driving much faster than me, and a truckload of foreign truck drivers, this does not a good combination make... the next morning I read that somebody was killed further along having skidded into a fuel tanker. Heh.)
Home being a teensy bit further out of town, the snow has kinda settled here. Not on the roads, I think (so no snow day tomorrow, lol) but the gardens and cars and rooftops are covered thick again. I stood at the bus stop tonight and gazed up at the blizzard under the streetlights making everything look strange. And although the past couple weeks have proved me wrong somewhat, snow is still rare enough around here that it's a novelty...
And while I'm waiting for the last little bit of Lost to dl... Just finished Bone Crossed today, and I think Patricia Briggs played the trauma/ recovery schtick off pretty well, after all that. She has a great way of leaving Mercy in these quietly subdued, slightly mythic scenes near the end of all the books, and I liked the way the finale in this one played out. UF is so obsessed with the bright and shiny, the shipping and the big guns, when all the real power lies in decent writing that stands out a little.
I don't care for her vamps so much, but her fae have a nice way about them (love the walking stick! And it got a little plot point all its own) and the wolves work well enough - although I'm more interested in that in the Alpha & Omega side of that worldbuilding - but I'm bored of Adam now. And while that's killed my reading the Kitty books from now on, I can cope with it from Mercy.
ETA: Lost
'This Place is Death'?! Seriously?! Ya think?!
ACK.
I was really, really hoping they weren't going to do that. Really, really, really.
That sound is me whimpering in the corner while they just killed off my shiny new ship before it even got started.
Man, that was just.. harsh. Poor Char... and Dan's all frakked up before he even starts trying to fix it. Or make it all worse.
Er, can we have Rebecca Mader back now please? Anyone?
