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Happy New Year!
The sun is shining this morning for the first time in a long while. The forecast says we should get a break from the endless rain, which will come as a great relief.
My health actually seems to be improving...
A long bout of chest pain caused originally by an asthmatic cough appears to be responding to massage (I think there were some badly knotted muscles there) and the pain is much less now.
The tennis elbow is almost gone. I'm able to knit small amounts now.
The improvement in the chest means I'm able to start doing a lot more exercise (even walking used to be painful) which is triggering aches and pains as other muscles come back into use, but this is short term and is already improving.
In a mad spurt of enthusiasm, I've started tidying my desk. Yesterday I cleared about 3/4 of it and removed much stuff at least 5 years old, if not more. The remaining items are inevitably the hardest ones, as they're the ones that require me to do something with them, but I'm going to have a stab at it.
I also seem to be reading a lot more (the reducing pain levels have helped the brain come back on line). I've already read two of my Xmas books. Fuzzy Nation by John Scalzi is a good read - it's a rewrite of the classic "Little Fuzzy" by H Beam Piper. Scalzi's version is the more adult of the two, Holland's motives are a lot more complex and the Fuzzies themselves are not quite so innocent. I think on balance, I prefer the original book, but that's probably because it has a higher comfort factor and I've read it so many times. (though I do prefer Scalzi's way of proving that the Fuzzies are sapient he builds it into the plot in a very logical manner and gives the reader the clues to work it out themselves)
For those who haven't read either, the basic premise is that alien worlds can be strip mined if they have no intelligent native life forms. What happens when a life form is discovered that is borderline sapient?
My health actually seems to be improving...
A long bout of chest pain caused originally by an asthmatic cough appears to be responding to massage (I think there were some badly knotted muscles there) and the pain is much less now.
The tennis elbow is almost gone. I'm able to knit small amounts now.
The improvement in the chest means I'm able to start doing a lot more exercise (even walking used to be painful) which is triggering aches and pains as other muscles come back into use, but this is short term and is already improving.
In a mad spurt of enthusiasm, I've started tidying my desk. Yesterday I cleared about 3/4 of it and removed much stuff at least 5 years old, if not more. The remaining items are inevitably the hardest ones, as they're the ones that require me to do something with them, but I'm going to have a stab at it.
I also seem to be reading a lot more (the reducing pain levels have helped the brain come back on line). I've already read two of my Xmas books. Fuzzy Nation by John Scalzi is a good read - it's a rewrite of the classic "Little Fuzzy" by H Beam Piper. Scalzi's version is the more adult of the two, Holland's motives are a lot more complex and the Fuzzies themselves are not quite so innocent. I think on balance, I prefer the original book, but that's probably because it has a higher comfort factor and I've read it so many times. (though I do prefer Scalzi's way of proving that the Fuzzies are sapient he builds it into the plot in a very logical manner and gives the reader the clues to work it out themselves)
For those who haven't read either, the basic premise is that alien worlds can be strip mined if they have no intelligent native life forms. What happens when a life form is discovered that is borderline sapient?