Okay, second day of 2018...
Jan. 2nd, 2018 12:44 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
dewline...and the cold spell seems to be letting up now, but the snow's coming down as if to compensate for that first thing. Not the first time this has happened anywhere, and it won't be the last. That's alright. I can live with that.
So while I'm waiting on word from my current employer as to whether I report to work again tomorrow or the day after that...getting some light laundry done, updating the Elephantmen International font from Comicraft (and Rigor Mortis now that it has a wider character set, as well as buying Prince of Darkness, Single Bound and Man of Tomorrow), and reading more of Artemis.
(Prince of Darkness? In my opinion, Tom Orzechowski should be getting royalties for inspiring it, because of his Wolverine wordmark for the original character of that ilk's first mini-series back in the 1980's. But I digress...)
I got Linden MacIntyre's new mystery novel The Only Cafe as a Christmas present from a relative, and I'm looking forward to getting to that as well. Some of the Canadian regulars here will remember his work as a reporter for CBC News, particularly the TV division's Fifth Estate series. In his retirement from field reporting and investigative journalism, he's been getting into fiction. The Only Cafe helped him scratch an itch of sorts on his soul from his field work in Lebanon...and if you want to know more than that, you'll have to do your own digging.
While waiting for the first load to finish in the wash, I'm also listening to Ontario Today. Because New Year's Day was yesterday, that radio phone-in show's gardening phone-in with Ed Lawrence is this afternoon rather than Monday this week. Lots of greenery chatter, much of it joyous in its turn. That helps me fight off badder moods than I want to deal with.
More as it comes to mind...
So while I'm waiting on word from my current employer as to whether I report to work again tomorrow or the day after that...getting some light laundry done, updating the Elephantmen International font from Comicraft (and Rigor Mortis now that it has a wider character set, as well as buying Prince of Darkness, Single Bound and Man of Tomorrow), and reading more of Artemis.
(Prince of Darkness? In my opinion, Tom Orzechowski should be getting royalties for inspiring it, because of his Wolverine wordmark for the original character of that ilk's first mini-series back in the 1980's. But I digress...)
I got Linden MacIntyre's new mystery novel The Only Cafe as a Christmas present from a relative, and I'm looking forward to getting to that as well. Some of the Canadian regulars here will remember his work as a reporter for CBC News, particularly the TV division's Fifth Estate series. In his retirement from field reporting and investigative journalism, he's been getting into fiction. The Only Cafe helped him scratch an itch of sorts on his soul from his field work in Lebanon...and if you want to know more than that, you'll have to do your own digging.
While waiting for the first load to finish in the wash, I'm also listening to Ontario Today. Because New Year's Day was yesterday, that radio phone-in show's gardening phone-in with Ed Lawrence is this afternoon rather than Monday this week. Lots of greenery chatter, much of it joyous in its turn. That helps me fight off badder moods than I want to deal with.
More as it comes to mind...
