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Nov. 11th, 2009 03:42 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
newnumber6PerExWriMo update. At 38,000 words at the moment. May try and squeeze in another 2,000 before bed. at this rate, should be finished by this weekend.
No comics of course. Work wasn't bad today. And I did manage to pick up a couple more bags of Greek Feta/Olive/Oregano chips, for incentive reasons.
As it turned out, I spent the 11am Rememberance Day ceremony in the grocery store. I have a dim grasp of time at the best of times, so I didn't really know it was coming, just walking through the store until I gradually realized that the person speaking over the grocery store loudspeaker was reciting "In Flanders Fields". So I found a quiet spot and stood and then we did the minute of silence after. It was a little surreal, but kind of nice, although I don't think a few people entirely got what was going on (and I have to wonder what people just walking into the store during the minute of silence thought to see lots of people just standing around, stopping in silence).
And, we'll close off with a meme:
First Lines Meme, stolen from![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
anomilygrace
The Rules:
1. Pick 10 of your favorite books or series.
2. Post the first sentence of each book. (If one sentence seems too short, post two or three!)
3. Let everyone try to guess the titles and authors of your books.
These don't constitute a specific 'top 10', just 10 books I consider a favorite for one reason or another. and who's first line isn't either unmemorable, or gives away the book to anyone with even a passing familiarity.
Special hint, for those who don't know me at all: They're all SF-related.
1. The manhunt extended across more than one hundred light-years and eight centuries.
2. It didn't start out here. Not with the scramblers, or Rorschach, not with Big Ben or Theseus or the vampires. Most people would say it started with the Fireflies, but they'd be wrong. It ended with all those things. - Blindsight, by Peter Watts, guessed by fiddlersgreen.
3. "The first time was like this. I was reading when Dad got home. His voice echosed through the house and I cringed."
4. Two hours before dawn I sat in the peeling kitchen and smoked one of Sarah's cigarettes, listening to the maelstrom and waiting. Millsport had long since put itself to bed, but out in the Reach currents were still snagging on the shouals, and the sound came ashore to prowl the empty streets."
5. It is on a world whose name I do not know, on the slopes of a great mountain, that the Javelin came down.
6. It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen
7. "I've watched through his eyes, I've listened through his ears, and I'm telling you now he is the one. Or at least as close as we're going to get."
8. "Tonight we're going to show you eight silent ways to kill a man." The guy who said that was a sergeant who didn't look five years older than me. So if he'd ever killed a man in combat, silently or otherwise, he'd done it as an infant.
9. "Stand to!" I roared, but I was too late; even as Alexi and Sandy snapped to attention, Hibernia's two senior lieutenants strolled around the corridor bend.
10. In Fort Repose, a river town in Central Florida, it was said that sending a message by Western Union was the same as broadcasting it over the combined networks.
No comics of course. Work wasn't bad today. And I did manage to pick up a couple more bags of Greek Feta/Olive/Oregano chips, for incentive reasons.
As it turned out, I spent the 11am Rememberance Day ceremony in the grocery store. I have a dim grasp of time at the best of times, so I didn't really know it was coming, just walking through the store until I gradually realized that the person speaking over the grocery store loudspeaker was reciting "In Flanders Fields". So I found a quiet spot and stood and then we did the minute of silence after. It was a little surreal, but kind of nice, although I don't think a few people entirely got what was going on (and I have to wonder what people just walking into the store during the minute of silence thought to see lots of people just standing around, stopping in silence).
And, we'll close off with a meme:
First Lines Meme, stolen from
anomilygraceThe Rules:
1. Pick 10 of your favorite books or series.
2. Post the first sentence of each book. (If one sentence seems too short, post two or three!)
3. Let everyone try to guess the titles and authors of your books.
These don't constitute a specific 'top 10', just 10 books I consider a favorite for one reason or another. and who's first line isn't either unmemorable, or gives away the book to anyone with even a passing familiarity.
Special hint, for those who don't know me at all: They're all SF-related.
1. The manhunt extended across more than one hundred light-years and eight centuries.
fiddlersgreen.3. "The first time was like this. I was reading when Dad got home. His voice echosed through the house and I cringed."
4. Two hours before dawn I sat in the peeling kitchen and smoked one of Sarah's cigarettes, listening to the maelstrom and waiting. Millsport had long since put itself to bed, but out in the Reach currents were still snagging on the shouals, and the sound came ashore to prowl the empty streets."
5. It is on a world whose name I do not know, on the slopes of a great mountain, that the Javelin came down.
6. It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen
7. "I've watched through his eyes, I've listened through his ears, and I'm telling you now he is the one. Or at least as close as we're going to get."
8. "Tonight we're going to show you eight silent ways to kill a man." The guy who said that was a sergeant who didn't look five years older than me. So if he'd ever killed a man in combat, silently or otherwise, he'd done it as an infant.
9. "Stand to!" I roared, but I was too late; even as Alexi and Sandy snapped to attention, Hibernia's two senior lieutenants strolled around the corridor bend.
10. In Fort Repose, a river town in Central Florida, it was said that sending a message by Western Union was the same as broadcasting it over the combined networks.
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Date: 2009-11-11 08:57 pm (UTC)2 is Blindsight by Peter Watts.
4 I kind of recognize too, but I'm not sure.
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Date: 2009-11-11 11:11 pm (UTC)I'm reasonably sure you've read 1. Don't know if you've read 4, but wouldn't be surprised either.
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Date: 2009-11-12 07:33 pm (UTC)