I haven't been blogging much lately, simply because I haven't really had much to say. I've mostly been playing EVE Online in my free time. While I exercise, I've watched season one of Reaper. It's a good show. Started a little weak, but it got stronger as the season progressed. Now I'm looking forward to season two once it's out.
Finished a few good books lately including
Ally Carter's I'd Tell You I Love You But Then I'd Have To Kill You. It's a cute and funny book, even if the concept is patently ridiculous. I can understand why Disney optioned film rights, because I could easily see the book as a movie or TV show. I plan on getting
Cross My Heart And Hope To Spy soon. I've also started
A. S. King's Dust of 100 Dogs. While this book is technically considered YA, it mentions quite a bit of gruesome violence, and I don't think I'd want anyone younger than 12 or 13 to read it. (That's when I started reading Dean Koontz and a lot of my classmates started reading Stephen King). I'm also reading
Rick Riordan's Percy Jackson books. I'm on the first book,
The Lightning Thief and it's fantastic. There are some similarities with the Harry Potter books, but not so much that it feels like it's nothing more than
Harry Potter Fights The Greek Gods.
Rosemary Clement-Moore's Highway To Hell came out this week. I'm going to Hurst tomorrow to buy a signed copy.
Oh, and the EVE Online expansion,
Apocrypha, came out this week. Tuesday (the day the xpack went live), I went in search of a wormhole. And as luck would have it, found one right away! So we jumped through and explored the new space. Turns out, though, that if you forget to bookmark your exit, the only way out is to scan for the wormhole (or another one) again. So we were trapped until I could find a new exit. I found one yesterday (Thursday). There is another way out, which my husband took. Destroy your ship and kill yourself. That will start you back at the station where you created your clone. In the three nights I was trapped inside, though, I learned a lot about probing out sites, about wormhole systems in general, and what I need to do to maximize my effectiveness.
Okay, I guess I did have something to say after all.