What went before: I put privacy film on the window in the door that opens onto the deck from my office, and also on the front bathroom window, replacing old film that was tired and curling at the corners.
Saturday. Cloudy and damp. The ‘beans are calling for a high temp of 72F/22C, so apparently spring is going to come in like a fire sprite.
Breakfast was rice crackers and cream cheese, with a side of strawberries. Second mug of tea to hand. Lunch will likely be a salad, but — we’ll see.
I Inspected yesterday’s work and still find it good. I have Corresponded with Balticon. I’m still for dancing, which is a Who are you and what have you done with Sharon Lee? moment, but, hey.
I last night finished Check and Mate (YA), which I — had problems with, and almost metaphorically threw it against the wall Chapter 23ish. I wound up skipping a few chapters and reading the end, which I still had problems with. I have also read by the same author a sample of The Love Hypothesis, which is one of her adult novels, and I have the Exact Same Problems with it, so clearly this author’s books are not My Sort. This is not a denigration of her legions of fans, or indeed of her; it is a statement of personal preference — thank you for understanding the difference between the two.
Insofar as Check and Mate, and the question of is the Chess World accurately portrayed, as I said, and as far as I know — yes. The author herself says that she had to take liberties and invent shortcuts, in order to make a process that in Real Life would be years of slow effort, in order to fit it inside of a short novel that people would actually want to read.
And I think that’s all that’s shakin’ here at the Cat Farm and Confusion Factory at the moment. As you can see from the previous post on my wall, the cats are anti-shake.
What’s the weather where you are today?
We put some similar film on our bedroom window when a male robin kept seeing his reflection. He would fly into the glass until he was bleeding. Apparently, it was a territorial fight with the reflection.
Weather here is similar, and spring has sprung, with flowering trees and shrubs exuberantly on display. It’s always soothing to me to see your cats. Thank you for taking the time to get photos and post them.
Well, our weather is lots warmer here in Hawaii, but the Tropics comes with rain – sometimes LOTS of it! Yesterday, we were ‘blessed’ with 5.44 inches of the wet stuff, which isn’t unusual. What was unusual was getting 4.5″ in 25 minutes! The main drag fronting our home looked like a freakin’ river! TV news showed that our highway had to be closed for a couple of hours, so glad we were staying home. Oh, yeah, can’t forget about the 111 lighning bolts in 3 hours, accompanied with a chorus of thunder, that had nine of our 10 cats scattering! The tenth Coon cat is deaf, which was a definite plus for him. Today is sunny & 82F, with a touch of trade winds, & even after 35 years, I’ll never understand how it can look like we never had a drop of wet stuff!