Wednesday, October 31, 2007

Blog Stuff: That worked out nicely.

Got home last night around midnight and surfed teh intarw3bz briefly. I then toddled back down the stairs, built a fire in the chimenea, and settled in on the porch with some Snake Dog IPA and my umpteenth re-reading of Heinlein's To Sail Beyond The Sunset. I went off to bed at three and no alarm was set, so when I awoke at 10:00AM, I was feeling nice and rested. This would make for a nice routine.

*pirouettes* How'd it work? Do I look snarkier?

We'll see how this plays out, with the inevitable speedbump of Saturday morning looming in the middle distance.

12 comments:

BobG said...

"*pirouettes* How'd it work? Do I look snarkier?"

(Gives wolf whistle)
Your typing looks better already...

sam said...

That your favorite RAH book? If it's your umpteenth re-reading it must be one of 'em. Hmmmmmm.

Tam said...

I like SF.

I like Heinlein.

I like history.

A Heinlein SF story that is also largely a view of life in turn-of-the-century America is a gimme. Most of the time I just usually read up til WWII and put it down, but about every third reading I'll roll all the way through.

(BTW: I have book Heinlein's ever published except for a couple of currently out-of-print juveniles. I've read all of them at least three times, some a couple of dozen.)

Unknown said...

You one of them bookworms, or something?

Anonymous said...

Love Heinlein*. Got my daughter hooked on Podkayne of Mars, then discovered that there are different endings! Sometime in the 50s, I think, they had school kids write different endings and some of them got published. It was a shock when my daughter described an ending that I didn't remember.

*Except when he does his Trashing of anything spititual/religeous, ala: Job: A Comedy of justice.

Anonymous said...

I still have a soft spot for his juveniles. If you don't count old Doc Savage pulps, my first SF novel was Have Space Suit, Will Travel. And I still laugh at the obscure dirty joke he inserted into The Star Beast just to see if he could get it past his prude of an editor.

Roberta X said...

A) Does this mean I c'n keep the Yeti? It's real cuddly! It does sort of snore, though.

B) You even have RAH's Tramp Royale? (If not, see me later). Kewl stuff.

C) Brynap: okay, that makes three gunnies I know of that read Doc Savage. It's chewing gum for the brain!

BobG said...

Doc Savage? I haven't read him in over 30 years; that brings back some memories.

Anonymous said...

Uhhmmmh,
Nope, no Doc Savage here (quickly tossing a sheet over the bookcase. Nope, no need to look behind the sheet....

Anonymous said...

You Doc Savage fans ought to check out Venture Brothers- he's sent up (along with about a billion others) quite nicely in it.

Roberta X said...

I'll be superamalgamated! ...I will admit, not without some trepidation, to enjoying Venture Brothers. Oh, and I've decided to keep the Yeti. Tam can't have him. She's got a Chimera, after-- What? Oh. Ohhhh.

Anonymous said...

*Except when he does his Trashing of anything spititual/religeous, ala: Job: A Comedy of justice."

You must have a different copy of that book than I do. (Hint, in the end, they are in Heaven).

Not to mention Stranger in a Strange Land....

Heinlein's writing can be very pro-spiritual/religion. The people who suck souls in the guise of religion, not so much...