Mostly Jeeves and Wooster related, though only vaguely.

[derien]

Just because the law says the management company is required to heat us to at least 68 degrees does not mean they have to leave it at exactly 68 degrees day after day. This is becoming tiresome. I may need to get a set of longjohns, my knees are cold. Instinct kicked in and for a while we couldn't stop eating. I've lost track of how many cups of tea I've had.

I've become such a wuss. Used to would have been I'd have been happy enough if the house was this warm. ;)

Should be writing, but am reading "The Moon Is A Harsh Mistress" - damned good story. I feel horrible about every bad thing I've said about Heinlein. ;) Something about the style of it had me thinking that a Heinleinesque story written with a Bertiesque voice could possibly be quite a lot of fun - TMIAHM is narrated by a guy who leaves out all unnecessary words. But I suspect it would be encroaching on the sort of thing that Charles Stross is coming out with, soon.


Um, to backtrack a little... I don't know if I mentioned this at the time (I should have, because I was THRILLED) - I wrote to Charles Stross to ask if his story "Trunk and Disorderly" (a sci-fi short story narrated by a Bertie-like main character, although his "Jeeves" is essentially Emma Peel and his friends from the Drones Club are a Tranformer and a Dalek, and OMGFUNNY!) was available anywhere on line. "the novel for which it [Trunk and Disorderly] is a dry run has been handed in at Ace. It's not the same universe or the same characters, but you might recognize some of the conceits, mutated through a Heinleinian lens ..." That should be fun. :)


And in other news of people getting back to you, Simon Carr (the inventor of the Voco Clock with Stephen Fry's voice in it) saved my actual email to him from months ago asking about the "Good Morning Madam" version of the clock and wrote back to me to let me know it's going to be available day after tomorrow. Smart man. The new version of the clock looks very nice - has a real wood casement and glass front and both the "Sir" and "Madam" versions have 150 different messages (the first version had only 50-odd messages and a plastic casement and was still much drooled over by Jeeves fans - although the voice is described as "Gosford Park rather than Jeeves and Wooster").


Now we're cooking a ham, so that's helping the temperature in here a little.

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[littleredhead.livejournal.com]

I just read the sentences "Should be writing, but am reading "The Moon Is A Harsh Mistress" - damned good story. I feel horrible about every bad thing I've said about Heinlein." to the boy and got the first real laugh out of him I've heard all day (he's sick with a horrible headcold and I have some evil cold-hybrid thing that makes me throw up in the middle of the night.) so thank you!

we turned our heat on tonight for the first time this season, mostly because we weren't baking something for dinner. it's nice, but now with my computer farther away from the one set of baseboard heat that we use, I think I will need a lap-robe this winter. I have a little rug already for my toes though.

but hey, at least we still have power. (oh, now she's gone and done it. drat.)

[derien.livejournal.com]

Hee, I hoped he would appreciate that - I am contrite! :)

Sorry you both are so sick, though! :(