cahn

Um, yeah. I'm still alive, really. So having a kid didn't really slow down the posting, but the going back to work really killed it. I also have been slowing down a lot on the reading, which didn't help the lack of posting.

Here's a six-month pic of the Not-So-Little One, with her typical bemused expression. (Though her head looks slightly larger than in real life.)

Let's see, what have I been up to lately. I just snarfed through Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, which was an entertaining fast thriller read though rather disturbing, and also Larsson had this really weird habit of doing product placement for Photoshop and Apple, to the extent that I seriously was starting to wonder whether he got kickbacks from them. Also the part where the main character was irresistible to all women was pretty funny.

I also read the YA White Cat (Black) (thanks

sarahtales!) which I very much enjoyed for its alt-universe mode of a world where people can perform magic but it's against the law, thus making a Mafia of magic-users, though my sister figured out the entire plot within about two chapters of its beginning, and was subsequently kind of bored. (Still,

julianyap, I think you'd like it.)

I know there must be other stuff I want to talk about. The problem is that right now the only time I have to post is when I am too exhausted to work (uh, yeah, she wanted to play last night instead of sleep), and there's a pretty high correlation between that and being too exhausted to come up with the things I want to rant on and on about. Well, my big work project is over in two weeks and after that I may be cutting down on my work hours, so we'll see.