Year 50 Day 257

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Me in our kitchen, holding the back of my right hand up to the camera to show my red and raw knuckles.

Day 257: High on my list of reasons I don’t like winter is how badly the cold and dry air wreaks havoc on my skin. My knuckles invariably look like I spend my off hours punching holes in the drywall of our home. Kinda feel like it, too. I’ll be quite glad when things warm up again.

📚 Wild Spaces by S.L. Coney

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4/2024

The first of this year’s Philip K. Dick Award nominees. No review, because I’m the award ceremony coordinator. I’m not remotely involved with selecting nominees or winners, just making sure the ceremony goes as it should, but it’s best to keep my reviews to myself.

Me holding Wild Spaces

Year 50 Day 256

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Me in a hotel meeting room, wearing a black winter hat and coat with a rainbow scarft; behind me are a number of other people gathered around tables, all also bundled up in coats and hats.

Day 256: Today was our coldest Norwescon ConCom staff meeting yet! Not only is Seattle having a cold snap and topped out at 24° F outside, but the meeting room was having heat issues and was in the mid-40s at the start, and made it all the way up to 51° by the end! The things we deal with to make sure the convention comes together….

Year 50 Day 255

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Me on our couch, wrapped up to my chin in a black-and-white plaid blanket.

Day 255: Seattle’s having a bit of a cold snap, and it’s currently just 18° F outside, which is not nearly enough degrees. We need more degrees. Can we have our degrees back, please?

Year 50 Day 254

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Me on the balcony outside my office, overlooking trees, athletic fields, and water in the distance, all well lit under a bright blue sky with wispy white clouds.

Day 254: After a week of panic and dire predictions, the first expected Snowpocalypse of 2024 appears to be more of a Snowpoca-whoops. Grey skies in the morning gave way to a gorgeous (though cold and windy) afternoon and evening. Of course, now that I’ve mocked the weather, that will probably be the trigger event, and I’ll wake up tomorrow morning to find myself trapped under a ten-inch blanket of snow….

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📚 Child of Two Worlds by Greg Cox

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3/2024 – ⭐️⭐️⭐️

Good Pike-era (shortly post-“The Cage”) adventure that has Spock examining his approach to dealing with his mixed heritage while attempting to assist a teenager who as a child had been captured and then raised by Klingons. With a side-order B plot of flu-like virus on the Enterprise, of course. Good insight into Spock that meshes imperfectly, but surprisingly well with the current Strange New Worlds take on his journey.

Me holding Child of Two Worlds

Year 50 Day 251

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Me sitting in my home office, with a green screen curtain to my right and shelves of books behind me, looking at my computer.

Day 251: Just a quiet Monday working from home. Today’s the first day of classes for the quarter, so there was plenty to do, it just all pretty much looked like this.