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May. 3rd, 2016 01:27 pmScott and I went to the library last night so that he could pick up a couple of things that he’d put holds on (some equipment for testing the air in our attic himself). I hacked portals and captured a few and made it to level 6 in Ingress. Cordelia was with us, and she was extremely irritated with us about the pauses for Ingess stuff. She finds it very boring.
There’s no school today because of the millage election. Basically, the school system has decided that they can’t have kids in the buildings during any election because a bunch of open carry assholes insisted on bringing guns to the polls in elementary schools during the primary election. I hate giving ground to those folks, but I don’t see what else the district could do. Small children and guns are unmixy things.
Scott’s expecting to be home on time today, so we’ll go vote then. This is a school millage to pay for mandated special education services. If it doesn’t pass, the money for the services will be pulled from the budget for everything else. I plan to vote for it, and I’m hoping that other people will, too. Millages seem to do better, locally, if they’re the only thing on the ballot, so I’m more hopeful than I might be.
I tried to watch something on Hulu last night. It hung up and stayed frozen for about forty five minutes, until I turned everything off. I don’t know if restarting would have helped. I was distracted and didn’t think to try it until it was time to go to bed. If it does that a lot, though, it’s not going to be worthwhile.
We have two books in for Cordelia at Book Bound right now. She’s desperate to get one of them (the one by Kerstin Geir) but not quite desperate to try to walk that far. She knows that her knee won’t carry her through a really long walk yet, not even with a brace on. I’m not sure that we’ll keep buying Rick Riordan books. Cordelia still hasn’t finished last fall’s Magnus Chase book. Scott listens to them on CD from the library, and I’m about six books behind, so getting things from the library wouldn’t be a great burden.
I still think it’s really weird that the library has no catalog entry for the Riordan book that came out today. They make the record when they order the book as opposed to when it arrives, and this is really something that I’d have expected them to order far in advance. I find it really difficult to believe that the acquisitions people don’t know the book is coming out. I can’t imagine that the trade publications have been silent about it or that the publisher hasn’t been pushing it.
I’m hoping to do some writing today. If I can manage it, I want to work on the Narnia darkfic. I know what’s happening with Peter. I think I know what’s happening with Susan and Lucy. Edmund, however, I’m not at all sure about. I think he might actually get the least attention from Jadis, at least at first, and then work at keeping it that way. I’m just not sure what would be going on inside his head. I’m writing from Jadis’ POV, so I could ignore Edmund if she’s going to, but I think I need to know what’s going on.
There’s no school today because of the millage election. Basically, the school system has decided that they can’t have kids in the buildings during any election because a bunch of open carry assholes insisted on bringing guns to the polls in elementary schools during the primary election. I hate giving ground to those folks, but I don’t see what else the district could do. Small children and guns are unmixy things.
Scott’s expecting to be home on time today, so we’ll go vote then. This is a school millage to pay for mandated special education services. If it doesn’t pass, the money for the services will be pulled from the budget for everything else. I plan to vote for it, and I’m hoping that other people will, too. Millages seem to do better, locally, if they’re the only thing on the ballot, so I’m more hopeful than I might be.
I tried to watch something on Hulu last night. It hung up and stayed frozen for about forty five minutes, until I turned everything off. I don’t know if restarting would have helped. I was distracted and didn’t think to try it until it was time to go to bed. If it does that a lot, though, it’s not going to be worthwhile.
We have two books in for Cordelia at Book Bound right now. She’s desperate to get one of them (the one by Kerstin Geir) but not quite desperate to try to walk that far. She knows that her knee won’t carry her through a really long walk yet, not even with a brace on. I’m not sure that we’ll keep buying Rick Riordan books. Cordelia still hasn’t finished last fall’s Magnus Chase book. Scott listens to them on CD from the library, and I’m about six books behind, so getting things from the library wouldn’t be a great burden.
I still think it’s really weird that the library has no catalog entry for the Riordan book that came out today. They make the record when they order the book as opposed to when it arrives, and this is really something that I’d have expected them to order far in advance. I find it really difficult to believe that the acquisitions people don’t know the book is coming out. I can’t imagine that the trade publications have been silent about it or that the publisher hasn’t been pushing it.
I’m hoping to do some writing today. If I can manage it, I want to work on the Narnia darkfic. I know what’s happening with Peter. I think I know what’s happening with Susan and Lucy. Edmund, however, I’m not at all sure about. I think he might actually get the least attention from Jadis, at least at first, and then work at keeping it that way. I’m just not sure what would be going on inside his head. I’m writing from Jadis’ POV, so I could ignore Edmund if she’s going to, but I think I need to know what’s going on.
