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Seven books to know me better

This hashtag #7BooksToKnowMe is floating around on Mastodon (no more Twitter, yay!) and I have a whole shelf of favourite books on Goodreads. These ones I think give you a snapshot of the me you're likely to encounter on any given day. The TL;DR upfront, followed by more explanation:

Old friends in verse

I've been reading poetry lately and my newest favourite is Warning by Maw Shein Win. Below are older friends, from school and old books and dusty libraries and long summer holidays, in approximate date order of writing. The Flea by John Donne I Wandered Lonely As A Cloud by William

Cover band names

Every once in a while you hear a phrase and think, "That would be a good band name." These are my current favourites: 1. No Visible Cow 2. Flying with Cats 3. Angry Hatstand 4. Unexploded Balm 5. Decaf Piranha 6. Teacup Hierarchy 7. Grumpy Old Queen 8. Suddenly Ducks

Notebooks

I work in a software company, but I couldn't do my work without paper notebooks. I'm running several at once: Five Year Diary A gift from Paul six years ago and again last Christmas, this book from Levenger gives me five lines a day, for five years. It's eerie to

What's in a title?

Riffing off the sci-fi novel "Bowl of Heaven" with Husband, I was sad to find out the second book in the series was not "Spoon of Heaven," or "Weetabix of Heaven," because it would fit perfectly. We came up with some other novel titles that could be tweaked: * Rendezvous with

Travel lessons

Airplane travel Some day, you and your checked luggage will be parted. Maybe for a day, maybe forever. Have enough in carry-on that you can survive a day while you get replacements for the essentials. Medications go in carry-on bags. If you fly more than twice a year, do the

Patience, a story in one hundred words

Rain and grains of hail bounced off her hide with a metallic ting, falling to the cobblestones below. Solidified iron draped over her crouched form, holding her in place and burning her skin every second of every day, eyes propped open, ears half-blocked, muscles aching to stretch and open her

Favourite writing tools

My TWSBI 580 fountain pen is one of my favourites. It's not the most expensive fountain pen, but it always starts well, writes smoothly, and the piston-fill ink reservoir holds a LOT of ink. It's currently filled with the original formulation of Noodler's Black Swan in Australian Roses ink, a

From electronic to paper

I'd been using an electronic task list for keeping my to-do's, and it worked well enough, sort of. I got stuff done, but the list of completed tasks was flaky and didn't always display. The main list stopped updating, some tasks would duplicate, and it wasn't working well. So I

Back and forwards: 2014 resolutions.

I knit thirteen hats this year. Wasn't intending to make 2013 the year of the hat, but when you have a small amount of yarn, a hat is a good project. One of the hats was made with my first 3-ply handspun yarn, a deep red Falklands wool. I finished

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