2021-02-22

dewline: Musical note symbol ending in a maple leaf (canadian music)
2021-02-22 02:30 pm

Star Trek Novelverse: Coda - A Musical Sidebar

Dayton Ward announced on several websites that he's working with Dayton Ward and James Swallow on a project for the Star Trek "Novelverse" as we've known it these past two decades. Working title is Coda.

Owing to several divergences from content established in the "Novelverse" in what we've been seeing on Discovery, Picard, Lower Decks thus far, and expecting more divergences to come, a lot of longtime readers are expecting this project to wrap up the continuity of the "Novelverse" with some finality.

Dayton's noted that since beginning work on the Coda project, there's been a piece of "go to" music he's had on his playlist: "The Garden" by Rush, from their Clockwork Angels album.

We've got maybe over half a year before this particular trilogy of books starts arriving at retailers, but since Rush was a Canadian band, this is a good excuse for another Musical Interlude in my own blogging here. From their Clockwork Angels tour in 2012, then...

dewline: Virus Don't Care (pandemic)
2021-02-22 02:48 pm

Eye Update - February 2021

I got a call today from the Eye Institute. My regular checkup on the choroidal nevus at the back of my eyeball has been postponed a second time, to May 21st. I am not entirely unsurprised by this news, given the Pandemic context. In fact, I was expecting something like that phone call to happen. If we'd stuck to plan, that appointment would be next Monday, a week from this date.

Quite understandable.