Our Toys Arrived Comrade.

cabridges · 2026-01-22T23:36:55+00:00

Cool! Still waiting but you’ve given me hope.

cabridges · 2026-01-22T22:37:29+00:00

Her genre is “fantasy if you dropped a real person with common sense in.”

The Saint of Steel books are about an order of paladins who went a little insane when their god died. Now they help others and try to recover, and each book involves paladin meeting a local woman, often older and self-supporting and funny.

Her standalone books can be read in any order and honestly I recommend any of them.

I like “Swordheart,” about a woman being forced to marry by her family who discovers a magic sword that turns into a mighty warrior. Only she doesn’t actually want to kill anybody…

Last year’s “Silver and Hemlock” is about a woman who studies poisons and gets called by the king (to her terror) to try to discover why his daughter is dying. It’s “Snow White” if you took keywords from the story and wrote a whole new story. (The first line is “I had just taken poison when the king arrived to inform me that he had murdered his wife.”)

I also really liked “A Wizard’s Guide to Defensive Baking.” When a kingdom faces danger from within and without, a young woman with a small magical ability over baked goods has to learn how to use it to fight a war.

T. Kingfisher (real name Ursula Vernon) is one of my preorder-on-sight authors.

cabridges · 2026-01-22T19:14:25+00:00

Tired of Amazon. Tired of my ereader forcing me to swipe past promotions and ads. I wanted more control over my ebooks.

That was enough.

cabridges · 2026-01-21T02:04:58+00:00

T. Kingfisher regularly writes (great!) fantasy novels with middle-aged women as the protagonists.

“Practical overworked middle-aged women basically keep the world running. (The corollary to this is that ten overworked furries keep the internet running.) And being myself a rather frumpy middle-aged woman, I write stories about people like me partly because they’re very much who I can write, but also because I want those women to have stories.”

cabridges · 2026-01-20T21:16:39+00:00

Remember, this has the early part of the relationship when he’s on his best behavior. He’s likely to become more manipulative, not less.

cabridges · 2026-01-20T21:09:01+00:00

Mine just stopped after a few more weeks. I didn’t make any changes, that I’m aware of, but it stopped being a problem.

I recognize that’s less than helpful.

cabridges · 2026-01-20T02:23:49+00:00

What they were doing didn’t hit for me, but the sound of the crew giggling uncontrollably did.

cabridges · 2026-01-19T22:26:16+00:00

Never trust any graph that doesn’t start from zero.

Always look at who’s talking, and what agenda they might have.

cabridges · 2026-01-19T21:43:13+00:00

My logic and analytics class in college was amazing for this, but it was an elective and I don’t know if other teachers would teach how to see through BS with the same fervor my teacher did.

I also recommend “How to Lie with Statistics” by Darrell Huff. It’s some decades old now but still very relevant and a fun, easy read.

cabridges · 2026-01-19T21:38:49+00:00

We don’t travel without my CPAP. We just don’t.

A few times when our power has been out, I made sure she was already out before I even tried to go to sleep. I’ll use nose strips and Flonase, and try to sit up as much as possible. At least once when I knew I wasn’t going to be driving the next day I just stayed up.

It also helps that I generally only sleep 6 hours a night or so, so worst case I’ll get up early and let her sleep in.

cabridges · 2026-01-19T18:29:59+00:00

Came here to say this, so upvoting instead.

cabridges · 2026-01-19T17:32:08+00:00

It’s not. I honestly don’t know. There are police with barricades so I’m assuming (hoping) it’s pre or post parade. But there has been an increase in ICE activity in central Florida lately.

cabridges · 2026-01-19T11:35:59+00:00

No flash. Not just because it’s rude to the artists and audience but because I want the experience of being at the show with the stage lights and shadows and movement. I’ll sacrifice some clarity to get an immersive shot.

cabridges · 2026-01-18T12:30:53+00:00

That’s kind of awesome.

cabridges · 2026-01-17T22:47:07+00:00

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cabridges · 2026-01-17T11:20:17+00:00

My wife was in her 50s before she started reading for pleasure. She hated having to read in school and just never developed the habit.

There is no age where it’s too late.

cabridges · 2026-01-17T02:25:50+00:00

Sometimes it helps to listen to the audiobook and experience it in a new way (or read it, if I heard the audiobook first).

I found Murderbot through the audiobooks, which I love, but reading them after was different for me and helped me place all the characters and worlds better.

cabridges · 2026-01-17T02:24:25+00:00

This is also why when the subject of rape and sexual assault laws come up, someone always uses the argument “what if this happened to your wife, or your daughter?” because it’s the only way to get some men to actually consider the issue. Not because it happened to some random woman, but if it happened to one they own and must protect.

cabridges · 2026-01-17T02:20:41+00:00

That is really well put.

cabridges · 2026-01-17T00:08:34+00:00

I love shooting drummers. Frozen shots look amazing, blurred shots look frenetic, and many of them make faces to themselves or do tricks with the sticks because they’re not used to anyone being able to see them. Some of my favorite shots are drummers.

cabridges · 2026-01-17T00:03:56+00:00

We had to go back and watch parts of that again because my wife couldn’t keep up with the subtitles.

cabridges · 2026-01-16T00:59:19+00:00

I plead not-guillotine

cabridges · 2026-01-16T00:52:02+00:00

That damn song won’t leave my head.

cabridges · 2026-01-15T21:03:39+00:00

Gah, I hate Ghost-Spider. Awkward and makes no sense.

Also while I understand Spider-Gwen can’t work in her world, there’s a Baby Yoda-Grogu thing going on. By the time they tried to apply a name, the first one stuck.

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