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The Way We Are
Dec. 29th, 2013 09:29 amI'm up way too early this morning, but it seems I've become hardwired to this sort of thing. I was up until 2AM last night, coffee and reading, and couldn't get my mind to slow down for nearly an hour after going to bed.
I'm reading A Fiery Peace in a Cold War, by Neil Sheehan. It's a biography of General Bennie Schriever, one of the driving forces behind the USAF's development of ballistic missiles and related spaceborne research projects. Sheehan's a skilled writer - A Bright Shining Lie is a brilliant look at a very vocal critic of America's conduct of the Vietnam War, and I wish I'd had time to make use of it when I worked on Spycraft: Battlegrounds. I find myself more and more impressed with non-fiction writers who are able to spin a compelling narrative without embellishing their subject. It's definitely a particular gift.
Binged on movies last night, while following UofL's bowl game on ESPN's Gamecast site. Included American Psycho and followed that up with Looker. These started mixing together and making a Shadowrun plot, and gamer ADD kicked in - DTRPG provided me with a couple of sourcebooks and I found myself almost completely distracted by the gaming material over the movies themselves.
(Also, having my Blu-Ray player linked to my Amazon account for streaming video access is both wonderful and potentially quite dangerous.)
Looks like a messy rainy day ahead. I've got a few errands to knock out before settling in for the last Sunday of the NFL's regular season. The Bengals locked in their playoff slot a couple of weeks ago, among other teams, and while I have no illusions about the Bengals' Super Bowl chances, they're looking pretty darn good.
I'm reading A Fiery Peace in a Cold War, by Neil Sheehan. It's a biography of General Bennie Schriever, one of the driving forces behind the USAF's development of ballistic missiles and related spaceborne research projects. Sheehan's a skilled writer - A Bright Shining Lie is a brilliant look at a very vocal critic of America's conduct of the Vietnam War, and I wish I'd had time to make use of it when I worked on Spycraft: Battlegrounds. I find myself more and more impressed with non-fiction writers who are able to spin a compelling narrative without embellishing their subject. It's definitely a particular gift.
Binged on movies last night, while following UofL's bowl game on ESPN's Gamecast site. Included American Psycho and followed that up with Looker. These started mixing together and making a Shadowrun plot, and gamer ADD kicked in - DTRPG provided me with a couple of sourcebooks and I found myself almost completely distracted by the gaming material over the movies themselves.
(Also, having my Blu-Ray player linked to my Amazon account for streaming video access is both wonderful and potentially quite dangerous.)
Looks like a messy rainy day ahead. I've got a few errands to knock out before settling in for the last Sunday of the NFL's regular season. The Bengals locked in their playoff slot a couple of weeks ago, among other teams, and while I have no illusions about the Bengals' Super Bowl chances, they're looking pretty darn good.
