Walking Down the Street of Dreams?

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Well, that's what I'd like to be doing right about now. As it is, I'm feeling tired and achey from work and travel that you'd think wouldn't do that kind of damage to a body. And if I wanted to whine about that, I'd certainly deserve to be put down for it quickly enough.

Example 1 as to why: bakkaphoenix has had a near-miss with a six-alarm fire on Queen Street West in Toronto today. I only managed to visit their current digs for the first time last summer whilst attending the ParadiseCon, and enjoyed the visit. Glad to see they'll be staying for a good while yet. I'll be listening to them for any kind of advisory on how I can help out those who weren't so lucky.

Example 2: ruckawriter and mercuryeric jointly announced the end of their run on Checkmate. It wasn't news I wanted to head off to day-job with, and I'm particularly sorry to see that Eric won't be getting a chance to move that series forward on his own as a writer. I think the Mlle. Marie two-parter that wrapped up last month was top-level evidence that Eric is worth taking a chance on.

(Yes, I'm a sucker for books where UN personnel are the good guys. Deal with it.)

Example 3: The price of anything with wheat in it's going up for everyone. Between the climate issues of the last decade or more, the push into biofuels competing for the attention of the world's viable croplands, and other issues...well, this is one of the effects. What else it's going to cause, I'm not entirely sure of despite listening in on a discussion on that subject on The Current this morning. (Scroll down to Part 3 of that page in the link for the discussion.)

Example 4: Assorted friends and friendly acquaintances of mine are dealing with all manner of medical issues that I thankfully don't have...and I wish those friends and friendly acquaintances didn't have them either.

Other examples abound in my flist/blogroll. And it's a long one.

So much for any plans to indulge in self-pity, and rightly so.

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Biofuels: it has now reached the point where humans have to compete with cars for basic foodstuffs.

[(Anonymous)]

Looking back, a lot of us - me included - should have seen this one coming, huh?