In which it is really entirely too damned nice outside.
The weather is gorgeous. Breezy, warm, balmy, just gorgeous. The lawns have turned emerald green in the past three days. I’m wearing a strappy backless hippy dress, people. It’s wonderful.
It also makes me fear for the upcoming summer. It’s only March and it’s acting like May which makes me think that May will feel like August… and August in the Midwest? Totally. SUCKS. ASS. (And not in the fun way!)
I’m devouring Otherland, one of the books my mom sent me. In hardback, even, which one would assume would be a more luxurious reading experience but in actual fact is unwieldy and irritating. (I can’t wait to start reading ebooks on a palmtop again; they’re lightweight, small, and backlit, bitches! Such a superior reading experience, when you’re a voracious reader. I mean, it’s not that I don’t dig an old musty tome when I’m in an Indiana Jones movie, but for general consumption the e-device is the way to go.)
The reviews at Amazon are divided between yum and suck, but I think it’s delicious. I devoured 500 pages over the weekend. I’d tell you all about it, but it’s such a broad story with so many characters that not even the professionals at the publishing house could write a decent jacket blurb. (The jacket blurb sucked, omfg, what a ramblingly unattractive piece of shit.) (The only reason I started reading the book in the first place was that it was not only over 700 pages long, but the first in a series of five and all were present in the boxes my mom sent. I’m always looking for a long-term reading relationship.) It’s cyberpunk. There’s a tiny little bushman character with an ! in his name. The descriptions of the future web are awesome and I want VR gear installed in my head, I totally do. Typing is so 21st century; wouldn’t it be cooler to simply gesture at icons in an all-enveloping, 3D scape?
Yes, it would totally be better!
I have a job, good books to read, and a new Pocket PC on the way via UPS. I’m so happy!
In other news, according to the bartender Aki, who is sitting in my living room chatting with Truck and Peach, Southern Comfort should be called “bitch whiskey” because that’s what it is. Hah!
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Mush, I’ve been trying like hell to get reregistered for Rants. Having some of the same problems I had last time. Grrrr. Can you just GIVE me a username and password from your end: bghead/(password) and email it to me or something?
Things that go wrong:
Won’t accept my registration because it says it already has a user with same name (and my old password with those names doesn’t work – or maybe I’m just remembering them wrong). So I create a new account but then that account doesn’t work either. This time I created an account with username: big giant head, but never received a confirmation email and if I try to log in with this (or anything else) I just get a blank page. Sorry to ask you this here but I didn’t see an email address for you on here. Thanks. 🙂
Hmm. I’ll check into it. -m
That dress looks awesome! I’d love to wear something like that if the society allows me… 🙂 I am so glad you have happy news for yourself. It’s not a happy weather day here but it’s normal so somebody else should be enjoying a nice weather day somewhere else. 🙂 Have a happy day!
It *is* awesome! And you have a happy day too! -m
The Otherland series is quite good, I thought. I bought all of them in hardcover, courtesy of eBay. Tad Williams is refreshingly entertaining, much more so than I recall him being in the past.
I like what you like. Therefore, you are now required to always tell me what you’re reading. Always. -m
I’ve always loved paperbacks more than hardbacks. The smaller paperbacks fit easier into a backpack or murse. And, like you already mentioned, hardbacks are unwieldy. They take up too much space on the bus, and they’re too heavy for holding on a treadmill during light cardio sessions. I wonder if I could transition from paperbacks to ebooks on my pocket pc? Will I miss the tactile sensation of paper and pages or will I be hooked by the compact convenience of electronic novels? I made the transition from cds to mp3s… I’ll have to try an ebook someday.
I sent you an email re: reading on your PPC. *smooch* -m