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Sock still AWOL, but that was one gripping hour of radio: Alec Leamas vs his interrogators.

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Listening to The Spy Who Came in From the Cold #bbcradio4extra and looking for a sock.

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Ack! Another simple little outtake story written purely for my own diversion has sprouted a plot and turned into a novella.

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Standard shower design and myopia do not to well together.

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Computer greets Monday with spinning rainbow beachball of death needing forced restart; not a promising beginning.

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And no, that wasn't meant to be a 2-parter. StatusNet iPhone app - which I use for identi.ca- has the Send button just below Delete.

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. . . major characters (and their family, friends, and enemies) have still to show up.

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2492 words. Not bad. Still strange working into a different narrative style than #Darkborn and knowing

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Revisting the pre-Internet era: pulling bound volumes of journals and photocopying articles.

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Bootless splendor was brief: 15 cm sn*w forecast, starting this afternoon.

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Contemplating a wild and reckless act this am: Walking to work in shoes, not boots. Heartily tired of boots.

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Organizing my one little life while listening to Diocletian restructure the Roman Empire on The History of Rome podcast.

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Some people crash electronics by their mere presence. Me, I jam zippers.

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Orange juice slush - fridge malfunctioned -chocolate chunk pastry, and #Shadowborn page proofs in the cafe, while the snow falls outside

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The simple joys of life: chocolate, singing high gorgeous Brahms, and watching calculations blow up as values go to zero.

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Brilliant sunshine. Wind light. A perfect kayaking day, had it but been 50C warmer.

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Been a while since I've contemplated means of getting around the universe. Scientific scruple abandoned, I am building stardrives.

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Downloaded standalone #zotero alpha and Safari plugin, and saved my first PubMed reference from Safari to Zotero. Nice.

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Now this is a morning that looks like winter. Solid columns of steam from building vents, and a sky of icy blue and pink pastels.

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... I opened the wrong PDF of #Shadowborn and thought I'd overwritten all my annotations of things to incorporate in the copyedit. Yipe!