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Jul. 21st, 2009 13:38Tuesday July 14, 2009 Woke early, looked at the clock radio, and realized the plug must have come loose.
It had, but plugging it back in didn't solve the problem. There was an electrical outage.
I went back to sleep. By the time I woke again, the power was back on.
***To the food shelf at Minnehaha United Methodist. Slight delay while I filled out an annual form required by the Federal Government.
Stopped in at DreamHaven Books on my way home.
***Out again to Southwest Senior Center, to use the computer lab.
Then to East Lake Library.
On to Midtown Farmers Market. Spent one of the Farmer's Market checks I'd gotten on Wednesday.
The checks are for five dollars each, and no change can be given from them. It is a truth universally acknowledged that any Federal program is improved by adding nitpicky restrictions.
On to Savers thrift store, and then home.
***Read: Charles Stross, _The Revolution Business_. Tor Books, 2009. Crosstime novel with reasonably believable alternate worlds (one close to ours), political intrigue, interesting and believable characters, and a couple of wars (plus ruins from another war which apparently left no survivors on Earth.) Fewer idea-twists than usual for Stross; but this lack might be remedied in _The Trade of Queens_, sixth and last in the series.
Most English writers get American English wrong, one way or another. It helps to be married to an American (or have an American "long time companion,") but Stross married a Scot. So it's impressive that I caught only one glitch: "tripe in dripping" on page 232 of the hardcover edition. And this is in a version of North America whose English would be rather different from our world's.
[I thought "in dripping" would be "with gravy" in American English, but in correspondence, Stross says it isn't. He's not certain what it would be. I'm looking into this. Be prepared for more information on variations in culinary English than you've ever wanted, just in case.]
It had, but plugging it back in didn't solve the problem. There was an electrical outage.
I went back to sleep. By the time I woke again, the power was back on.
***To the food shelf at Minnehaha United Methodist. Slight delay while I filled out an annual form required by the Federal Government.
Stopped in at DreamHaven Books on my way home.
***Out again to Southwest Senior Center, to use the computer lab.
Then to East Lake Library.
On to Midtown Farmers Market. Spent one of the Farmer's Market checks I'd gotten on Wednesday.
The checks are for five dollars each, and no change can be given from them. It is a truth universally acknowledged that any Federal program is improved by adding nitpicky restrictions.
On to Savers thrift store, and then home.
***Read: Charles Stross, _The Revolution Business_. Tor Books, 2009. Crosstime novel with reasonably believable alternate worlds (one close to ours), political intrigue, interesting and believable characters, and a couple of wars (plus ruins from another war which apparently left no survivors on Earth.) Fewer idea-twists than usual for Stross; but this lack might be remedied in _The Trade of Queens_, sixth and last in the series.
Most English writers get American English wrong, one way or another. It helps to be married to an American (or have an American "long time companion,") but Stross married a Scot. So it's impressive that I caught only one glitch: "tripe in dripping" on page 232 of the hardcover edition. And this is in a version of North America whose English would be rather different from our world's.
[I thought "in dripping" would be "with gravy" in American English, but in correspondence, Stross says it isn't. He's not certain what it would be. I'm looking into this. Be prepared for more information on variations in culinary English than you've ever wanted, just in case.]