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Everyone was great both times, I should say. My level of intolerance reaction is quite rare. It took a while between sessions to identify the problem, and this time they were prepared. I have amazingly good medical care.

I got my second stent today. It went very smoothly, and TIL that the horrible two days after the first stent were an allergic reaction ti fentanyl. Holy smokes. All I can say is, if you’re thinking of developing a fentanyl habit, check for allergies first. (They use fentanyl to enhance the...

If so, then a lot of entertainment isn’t art and shouldn’t be. I prefer other definitions of art, personally. It’s not healthy to spend all day with your pulse and blood pressure where they are when exercising - I presume you know that. Likewise, it’s unsafe to run a vehicle flat-out all the...

Polk is really good. I’ll be curious to see how this turns out, but they start off high on the plus side for me.

Moonrise has a word for us all. That word is “no”.

Stop seeing me, please.

Wimp. Use Theatrix.

A summary of my 2025 reading, with help from StoryGraph: 124 books read - 17,413 pages, 1,131 hours 55 science fiction 27 fantasy 26 horror 18 history 9 mystery 74% fiction 26% nonfiction 40% digital 60% audio Christopher Ruocchio: 7 books Stephen Baxter: 5 books Terry Pratchett: 5 books

That sounds like some heavy sledding. I hope it’s worth the work!

I had a stressful morning, with a crisis among Mom’s caregivers. Once it settled down, I curled up with an audiobook of Clark Ashton Smith’s stories (The End Of The Story, volume 1 of the 5-volume set from Night Shade Books). The readings are uniformly great and the prose, oh man, the prose is...

I remember Dr Catherine Asaro disassembling some jerks on rec.arts.sf.written in the ‘90s who were sure that no woman could grasp chemistry or physics the way they did, especially if she’s writing romance-heavy stories. (She’s got an MA in physics, Ph.D in chemical physics.)

There’s more overall story there than is visible at the start. Trust me, would I lie to you? I finished Wolfhound Century. It remained great. It does end on a cliffhanger, but then I look forward to reading more about this place and these people.

I’d hoped this would be my last book of 2025, but missed it by a hundred fifty pages or so: Wolfhound Century, by Peter Higgins. This has been my library for years, and finally I go to it. Wow, it’s great. It’s a police procedural whose investigation leads to matters of politics and revolution...

From Richard Kadrey: And from Ben Monroe:

Pendragon is a possibility. The sets of personality traits for cultural virtues is a very handy thing, and the passions are great for anything with heavy melodrama. (Thinking here of a late friend whose character in Stafford’s campaign had Suspicious 20 and Loyalty (Arthur) 22. He saw threats...