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pedanther1. My Re-Reading Liad project continues, although lately it's been kind of lonely: all the people who had been reading and commenting along disappeared when we hit Trade Secret and temporarily switched from re-reading to reading-the-latest-novel-for-the-first-time. (Trade Secret is a prequel, so it slots in partway through the sequence rather than tagging on the end.) I guess some of them didn't want to read it for the first time on a chapter-per-day schedule. For that matter, some of them might just plain not have had access to a copy of the book yet. Anyhow, I hope some of them come back when we start the next novel, Local Custom, tomorrow.
2. I've also been doing some re-watching lately: after the Doctor Who 50th anniversary, I decided to re-watch the very first Doctor Who serial, "An Unearthly Child", and then a serial from each of the other classic Doctors in turn. For the second and third Doctors, I watched "The Tomb of the Cybermen" and "The Ambassadors... of Death" respectively -- aka the first two of the three Doctor Who stories in which Cyril Shaps plays a nervous doomed scientist. For better or worse, I had to miss "Planets of the Spiders" (nervous doomed scientist #3) and "The Androids of Tara" (Cyril Shaps' final turn on the show, this time as a priest in a very memorable hat). I haven't decided yet what I'll do after I reach the Eighth Doctor: continue on into the new series, or take a detour into the Big Finish audios?
3. The only new TV I'm following at the moment, week-to-week, is the BBC Four quiz show Only Connect, which involves teams finding connections between arbitrary-seeming sets of clues. The series final is next week; I'm barracking for a team of geeks called The Board Gamers, who are united by what has been variously described in the intros as "a passion of Pictionary" and "a mania for Monopoly", but is actually an interest that tends more toward Eurogames and similar.
4. A few weeks ago, I spent a day tromping around the bush with my elder brother, helping out with an annual wildlife survey. Specifically, mallee fowl, which are shy and retiring creatures, but build large and easy-to-count nesting sites. It was an experience, and the impressive burn I got on the inside of my wrist has pretty much healed by now. (I actually did a pretty good job with the sunblock, but I may have skimped somewhat on the undersides of my arms -- not having realised that I'd be in charge of the GPS unit, and consequently spending most of the day with one arm held out in front of me underside-up.)
5. I have an American quarter in my wallet. It's smaller than I expected, about the same size, shape and colour as an Australian 10-cent coin (which is what the cashier who gave it to me thought it was).
2. I've also been doing some re-watching lately: after the Doctor Who 50th anniversary, I decided to re-watch the very first Doctor Who serial, "An Unearthly Child", and then a serial from each of the other classic Doctors in turn. For the second and third Doctors, I watched "The Tomb of the Cybermen" and "The Ambassadors... of Death" respectively -- aka the first two of the three Doctor Who stories in which Cyril Shaps plays a nervous doomed scientist. For better or worse, I had to miss "Planets of the Spiders" (nervous doomed scientist #3) and "The Androids of Tara" (Cyril Shaps' final turn on the show, this time as a priest in a very memorable hat). I haven't decided yet what I'll do after I reach the Eighth Doctor: continue on into the new series, or take a detour into the Big Finish audios?
3. The only new TV I'm following at the moment, week-to-week, is the BBC Four quiz show Only Connect, which involves teams finding connections between arbitrary-seeming sets of clues. The series final is next week; I'm barracking for a team of geeks called The Board Gamers, who are united by what has been variously described in the intros as "a passion of Pictionary" and "a mania for Monopoly", but is actually an interest that tends more toward Eurogames and similar.
4. A few weeks ago, I spent a day tromping around the bush with my elder brother, helping out with an annual wildlife survey. Specifically, mallee fowl, which are shy and retiring creatures, but build large and easy-to-count nesting sites. It was an experience, and the impressive burn I got on the inside of my wrist has pretty much healed by now. (I actually did a pretty good job with the sunblock, but I may have skimped somewhat on the undersides of my arms -- not having realised that I'd be in charge of the GPS unit, and consequently spending most of the day with one arm held out in front of me underside-up.)
5. I have an American quarter in my wallet. It's smaller than I expected, about the same size, shape and colour as an Australian 10-cent coin (which is what the cashier who gave it to me thought it was).
