Tuesday business

Today is the Insane Day of Business. No meetings, at least, just Things that Have to Get Done.

I'm currently reading B Is for Burglar, and enjoying it. I think PI books were a lot more fun before the Internet and cell phones made everything too damned easy. Other than the The Burke series (which isn't really about solving crimes, anyway), I don't think I've got any Internet-enabled mysteries on my must-read list. Give me The Continental Op any day.

docorion left town last night, and made it safely to South Carolina (and probably beyond by this point), for those wondering. Still no laptop, though.

We did some catching up on Tivo last night, watching both Robot Chickens (and the latest not only had a reference to Sleepaway Camp, but even had a nerdy guy making almost the exact same comment about it that I made! Woohoo!) and Desperate Housewives (with Lisa Darr as a guest star! Woohoo redux!). After shadesong went to bed, I caught Deadwood. It's great to see supporting folks from last year like Sol and Dan really coming into their own. 'course, the problem with having this big a cast is that there are just some folks who fall by the wayside -- I don't recall seeing Utter or Jane at all last night, and I'm not sure I can remember the last time I saw Merrick. Still, such a good show.

Not much in the way of morning surfing, but A9 (the Amazon search engine) can now be configured with a whole slew of extra searches, from Wikipdia to a chess database to NASA. Very nifty.

Work beckons like a horrible beckoning thing, and I must respond, alas.

"It's not about winning, it's about having fun."

We've all been there. :-)

Squee!

Okay, I've known for a while that the next Pratchett book was called Thud!, and I'd figured out that it would involve a dwarf/troll conflict (since Thud is the name of the game based on a famous dwarf/troll war). But one of the Discworld mailing lists I'm on has published the initial blurb, and it's a Vimes book:

Koom Valley? That was where the trolls ambushed the dwarves, or the dwarves ambushed the trolls. It was far away. It was a long time ago. But if he doesn't solve the murder of just one dwarf, Commander Sam Vimes of Ankh-Morpork City Watch is going to see the battle fought again, right outside his office. With his beloved Watch crumbling around him and war-drums sounding, he must unravel every clue, outwit every assassin and brave any darkness to find the solution. And darkness is following him.

I do not want to wait until October, dammit.