Forever remain undone

Blog Instead of being asleep at 18:47 on 9 May 2015, kitt created this:

So, I have this item on my to-do list:

"Conversion of in-progress book should create a 302 redirect from in-progress to book review URL on save."

Basically, after I finish reading a book and write a review, I convert the in-progress node to a book review node and the old in-progress node goes away (which is to say, is unpublished, essentially deleting the in-progress page). Except that just deleting a page "breaks the internet." I really dislike having 404s on my site, and for the longest time, refused to link to other sites for worry of link-rot and missing pages. Wow, have those times changed, we all expect link-rot and things to disappear and poof do they disappear fast. On my own site, however, why oh why would I ever deliberately choose to delete a uniform resource locator referenced resource? Gah, that is awful.

And you know what?

Raising Stony Mayhall

Book Notes Posted by kitt at 23:29 on 8 May 2015

This book took me FOREVER to finish. And by "forever" I mean over six months to actually read. I did not enjoy this book, and had to slog through it to actually finish it. "Why bother finishing it?" you may ask. I certainly asked myself that question a number of times. While I can say I didn't enjoy this book, I didn't hate it either. It sits squarely in the "meh" category of books.

Which is somewhat surprising to me, as I did enjoy We Are All Completely Fine, also by Daryl Gregory. That book I enjoyed enough that I might read Harrison Harrison after I've whittled my current to-read stack down below 20 books. This one, wow, I could not get through. Eventually, I put it on 2x speed on audiobook and just walked on the treadmill until I was done with it.

I liked the idea of the zombies existing rationally after the fever of the turn has happened, a central plot point of this book. I liked the idea of a zombie baby being able to grow into an adult. The length of the story and the just plain naiveté of Stony just grated on my nerves.

And I really did not like the ending.

I don't recommend this book unless you're a Gregory fan and want to read all of the books he's written. In that case, yeah, go ahead. Otherwise, skip this one.

What I do when drunk in Hawaii

Daily Photo Instead of being asleep at 20:55 on 8 May 2015, kitt created this:

Yep, this is pretty much what I would do when drunk in Hawaii. Which happened, once. After a blue drink. So, I'm allowed.

Right.

Allowed.

I can't say I particularly like the sensation of drunk or even tipsy. I especially do not like it when walking back to the condo. With Mom along side me, though, it was amusing. We stopped at a rocky beach and watched the ocean for a bit. I stacked rocks. I have no idea why I stacked rocks, or why I can stack rocks when drunk so much better than I can when sober, but there you go. What I do when drunk in Hawaii.

Dried Fern

Daily Photo Instead of being asleep at 16:44 on 7 May 2015, kitt created this:

Along the crater rim in Hawaii.

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