More home life and work and lunchtime walks... and there'll be a bit of the same tomorrow, because I have to go into the office for a couple of hours in the morning (we're moving a data center, and I'm a system owner/tester).

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What have you just finished reading?

Regenesis by C.J. Cherryh, but maybe I shouldn't count it because I didn't start at the beginning? This time I actually enjoyed the part where Yanni is stuck in Novgorod; it read a little more like a political thriller than I remember. I do find it strange to contemplate people still wearing tweed jackets 300 years from now. Things get a little weird for me every time CJC goes into details of their clothing, although I do like the description of the black-and-gunmetal-and-bronze outfit that Ari II gets at one point in Cyteen. Also, the second stringers among Ari II's coterie, like Tommy Carnath, are all too plainly there just to have someone else to voice an opinion when they're discussing things. I can't even remember who Tommy is except that he's clearly a member of Amy Carnath's extended family.

I keep thinking I must have read something else, but it was probably magazines and the D&D 3.5 Players Manual. (Our gaming group is getting ready to start up a new campaign.)

What are you currently reading?

Nothing. I finished Regenesis last night and haven't started anything else yet. Decisions, decisions. Maybe I'll rip through Redshirts again so I can write it up: it's a fast read.

What do you think you'll read next?

My mind is blank on the subject. Sad. I never located Among Others, which I proposed reading last week.

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I could do a whole post of nothing but books, or work, or flowers. Here are some of each.

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From a Spanish TV show called Tú Sí Que Vales" ("You Can Do It").

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I hope you are having a lovely birthday, featuring all the treats you like, the people you love, and of course, cake!

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Oh yay! Thanks, scribblemoose!

A - Age: 54
B - Bed size: King size.
C - Chore you hate: All of them. Because you can't stop doing any of them.
D - Pet's name: No pets right now. :-( Biscuit the dog and Strega the cat are visiting with us, though.
E - Essential start to your day item(s): Fresh blueberries. Yes, I'm picky.
F - Favorite color: ALL THE COLORS except muddy greeny browny orangey tan things. Yes to intense reds, roses, blues, purples, emeralds, teal to peacock, soft grey, black, chocolate brown, etc.
G - Gold or Silver: Silver
H - Height: 5 ft 5½ inches. I'm shrinking. It's sad.
I - Instruments you play(ed): Guitar, recorder, bamboo flute, tongue drum (to be fair, I just noodle formlessly on the latter).
J - Job title: personnel classification: IT Specialist; functional title: Intranet Content Manager.
K - Kisses or hugs: Hugs. Snuggly, full-body hugs.
L - Living arrangements: With my Mr. (and sometimes our college girl daughter) in a beat-up 1920s vintage house with lots of character
M - Mood: Is this mood I like, or mood I am now? I like contented and calmly happy. I am anxious and scattered.
N - Nicknames: cho, Ruthless, Ruthefluss, Ruthie (family only, most of these)
O - Overnight hospital stays other than birth: Butt surgery (don't click if you're squeamish, although it's just a verbal description), 5-day wait for a bed for an angioplasty, giving birth to my daughter, observation for angina. More recently everything has been done as an outpatient procedure.
P - Pet Peeves: people being pretentious about educational and certification qualifications at work ... especially our personnel training group, which styles itself a "university" and calls the department heads "deans."
Q - Quote from a movie: Why a movie? Not everyone watches movies. OK, this one: "I want my father back, you son of a bitch." Inigo Montoya from The Princess Bride, of course.
R - Right or left handed: Right.
S - Siblings: Two younger sisters, one born to us, the other by mutual agreement.
T - Time you wake up: 6:30 by alarm on weekdays (sometime the Mr.'s morning routine wakes me before then); 8 or 9 on weekends.
U- Underwear: Jockey Elance Bikini briefs in 100% cotton. Usually pastels.
V - Vegetable you dislike: Hmm? Okra, maybe.
W - Ways you run late: "I'll just finish this one more thing ... ."
X - X-rays you've had: Loads and loads, plus ultrasounds and MRIs. Teeth, wrist (broken at age 8), feet, boobs, ladybits.
Y - Yummy food you make: Pot roast, matzoh ball soup, baked cup custard
Z - Zoo favorite: Fennec fox. So adorable!

That was an amusing way to waste 15 minutes!

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What have you just finished reading?

Bound in Blood (vol. 5 of the Chronicles of the Kencyrath by P.C. Hodgell), vol. 2 of the manga series 21st Century Boys by Naoki Urasawa, vol. 11 of the manga series Fushigi Yuugi Genbu Kaiden by Yuu Watase (and boy, is there a style whiplash between those two series ... ), and Redshirts by John Scalzi. The Hodgell was a re-read of an old favorite (and hmmm, where's my copy of Honor's Paradox, the next volume?); the other three were new. I'll write up the Scalzi at some point: I enjoyed it, but it was fairly slight for the most part.

(Oh, and the mysterious re-read I was doing earlier was The Diamond Age, or A Young Lady's Illustrated Primer, by Neal Stephenson.)

What are you currently reading?

I'm mostly reading bits and pieces of C.J. Cherryh's Regenesis (the sequel to Cyteen), for something I'm thinking about writing.

What do you think you'll read next?

Good question! Somewhere around the house is a copy of Among Others by Jo Walton: that's the last of the books I got for the winter holidays that I have not yet read. Or I could re-read N.K. Jemisin's Gujaareh books (The Killing Moon and The Shadowed Sun) so that I could write them up ... and the same with Jim C. Hines' Libriomancer. But there's an equal chance that I will dig out some old favorite to re-read, because that's my usual response to having finished something new.

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What have you just finished reading?

Volume 8 (the latest volume) of the manga series Bunny Drop. This tale of a little girl who is adopted by her adult nephew (yes ... you see, her father was the guy's grandfather) does a time skip after volume 4, and the viewpoint shifts from 30-year-old bachelor Daikichi to now-teenaged Rin. I'm not enjoying the later volumes as much as I did the first four, but it's still a fairly interesting slice of life series.

Also: volume 13 of the manga series Black Butler. The last couple of volumes followed young Ceil and his faithful demonic butler Sebastian as they take an ill-fated voyage on a luxury ocean liner. The cover, presented here, shows all you really need to know, IMO (although it really depicts an event that happened last volume). Yes, that is sweet little Lizzie, Ceil's fiancee, in her petticoats, wielding two cavalry sabers. She's good with them, too. What was she fighting? Zombies, basically. This is Black Butler, after all. This volume opens with a capsule flashback of Lizzie's upbringing. We also find out the Straight Dope about the Undertaker.

What are you currently reading?

The third omnibus volume of the manga Gunslinger Girl

What do you think you'll read next?

Probably John Scalzi's Redshirts. I've been going through tor.com's Star Trek TOS re-watch (this is a couple of years old), which is getting me into the right frame of mind, I think.

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I hope your special day was really special, with all your favorite treats and people!

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