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[the_rck]

I've found half of the hardware for the electric blanket. The other half seems to have vanished into the ether. Basically, when I got the blanket, it was in a large garbage bag. I removed the stuff I needed to be able to use it and left what I didn't need. Scott wasn't interested in the electric blanket, so I only needed to power my half. I left the other cord and controller in the bag in the red plastic bin in the living room. That was about three years ago. The bag is no longer there. I have no idea what happened to it or whether the cord got thrown out with the bag. I've checked the drawers where Scott stashes random cords in cast they may be useful later but no luck. I think the study and the basement are the most likely places for the cord to be. I'm not hugely optimistic about finding it, however.

Scott and I got through two episodes of Continuum last night. I'm curious as to how the future will come out. I'm not sure if the show is going to commit, though. I'm pretty sure that all of the future scenes so far are from the unaltered timeline (which may still come to pass).

We went out last night around 8:00. All the middle school kids at Cordelia's school who got at least three A's got coupons for a free small frozen lemonade at Sweetwater's. Cordelia got hers and a quite large chocolate chip cookie. Scott and I got frozen lemonade, too, and we shared a huge molasses cookie.

It occurs to me that Scott's going to have three audiobooks on hand by the end of the day. One of the Father's Day presents we got him is a book on CD that he had on his Amazon wishlist. He had the two earlier books in the series on his wishlist, too, but I know he's already read them and just wants to own them, so I went for book three.

I'm trying to finish a few things before we go to the library this afternoon. I completed one book last night and abandoned two. I've listened to three of the five CDs I got yesterday. I think I'm going to give up on a DVD that's due today. I've gotten about twenty minutes into it, and I don't much like the characters or find the plot interesting (it's pretty by the numbers). I can renew it, but I don't know if I'll finish it if I do. I've got five other library DVDs (including a set of three DVDs) and one from Netflix. I have five graphic novels from the library, one of them an interlibrary loan thing, and none of them should take all that long to finish if I can get myself to focus.

But focus is really, really difficult. Scott commented, when he suggested watching Continuum, that I looked the opposite of thrilled. I had to explain that pulling my head together enough to follow the story is hard and tiring.

I got the first book in Robert Jordan's Wheel of Time series from the library for Scott yesterday. He hasn't read any part of the series and is curious. I listened to a little bit of the first CD, mainly to make sure that the reading wasn't so awful that it couldn't be borne, and started laughing because the guy reading sounded like a hardboiled detective doing a voiceover in a film. The cadence was unmistakable. Scott spotted it, too. Cordelia didn't understand why I was laughing and kept asking if something was wrong. I didn't go far enough in to find anything read by the other narrator, so I don't know what her reading is like.

I'm trying to decide whether or not to renew a non-fiction book that I've just barely started. It's Antonia Fraser's The Warrior Queens. I very much want the information that's in there, but I'm having trouble with Fraser's style in the introduction. I don't know if reaching a chapter actually focused on an historical personage will change that or if I should just cut my losses. Has anyone read Fraser's work and have advice to offer?

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[sixbeforelunch]

Continuum is so good! I personally think they did commit to their premises. It actually manages a coherent story for four seasons too, which is impressive given everything that's going on. I hope you end up liking it. I would love to be able too talk to someone about it.

[the_rck]

We're midway through season 2 at this point (we just watched the episode in which Keira tries to kill Julian because he will be Theseus). I like that the show makes clear that the future that Keira wants is actually pretty awful for the vast majority of people and that, while some members of Liber8 are pretty nasty, they have a point about how bad things are and about the changes that are needed.

But I love time travel stories in general, so I was primed to enjoy this.

[sixbeforelunch]

Yes, that's what I like too. The show starts out with a seeming black and white morality: Keira and her people good, Liber8 bad. And then pretty early on you realize it's not that simple, and it just keeps getting more complicated from there.

I'm actually generally neutral-negative on time travel, but this show flew right past my reservations and made me love it.

[brunettepet.livejournal.com]

The disappearing plastic bag with important things I was saving for later happens around here all the time. There's just the two of us and I have no idea why the mister insists on moving things around ( and he wonders the exact same thing about me). Good luck with the search.

I tried to get into The Warrior Queens and finally gave up. There must be more entertaining books on the subject out there.

I hope Scott enjoys his gift.

[the_rck]

Thanks for the input on the Fraser book. I think I'll just return it. There must be something better on the subject. Maybe I should just pull the table of contents and use Google to find out more about all of them.

Things moving around is one of the things that goes with living with other people. We also have a cleaning lady who sometimes decides that things need to be put away somewhere. After all this time, though, nobody's going to remember the bag.