WARNING: This blog contains opinions, rants, and bad language and even a few moments of sincerity. Welcome to my world.
Having read the first book in this series by Michael Connelly, I really wanted to like The Black Ice . But 5 chapters in and I’m looking for any excuse to find something else to do rather than finish the second book featuring LAPD detective Harry Bosch.
I think what’s getting me is the cliché of cop who knows the right thing to do, but the brass upstairs just won’t let him do his job.... ...Read More
I got a funny email yesterday from a site called “Constant Content“.
Hi India,
Constant-Content has credited your PayPal account $65.00. Thanks for choosing Constant-Content.com as an outlet for your writing.
Now, I suppose the letter itself isn’t that funny… the funny part is that I’d forgotten completely that I’d even signed up back in March! I went based on a link... ...Read More
I promised Kate that I would post a picture of my latest knitting project. She helped me early this summer get started knitting again. I hadn’t really done it in, well, decades! (Damn, I’m old.)
I think it’s going to take me for-freaking-ever to finish, but in the meantime it keeps me warm as I go. My only complaint really is that the needles (aluminium) get heavy as I get all of those... ...Read More
I’ve just imported all of my blog posts from my Nixy Valentine blog. For those of you who don’t know, I’ve started writing under that name about a year ago. My reason for using a pen name was partly because I was writing adult material, including erotica.
However, I’ve recently realised I don’t want to be fractured all over the net, so I’m bringing this authorial persona... ...Read More
Editor Angela James tweeted about bacon bookmarks yesterday, and I also noticed this article in The Argus:
A rasher of bacon was found in a returned book by a Worthing librarian.
The lender had used an object usually found between two slices of bread rather than pages as a bookmark.
This was just one of the oddities artist Dan Thompson, of Lanfranc Road, Worthing, has come across while collecting quirky... ...Read More
It’s really difficult to even know how to categorise this one. But an Obama Chia Pet? Really? No matter how you feel about left v. right or crazy v. sane, a Chia Pet?
These have to be the most useless gifts ever. I read about this on a Weird News site, and then googled it, and came upon the official site for the product, chia-obama.com The best part has to be this description of the product:
Chia... ...Read More
I saw this post news item this week and thought it was both funny, and evidence that some people just shouldn’t have kids:
Police in Deer Lake, Newfoundland, decided in August not to press charges against three boys whom they had previously believed had harassed a young moose so badly that it had to be put down. A final piece of evidence against prosecution came from the father of one of the boys,... ...Read More
There are primarily two types of books I read: gory crime books and sci-fi/fantasy. I like my crime books full of forensic details and smart cops. The crazier the psychopath murderer, the better. So, yeah, Criminal Minds is my favourite TV show by far.
I just finished reading Chemistry In Death by Simon Beckett. It’s about a forensic pathologist who loses his wife and daughter and out of dismay,... ...Read More
Usually I’m all about being patient. Over the past couple of years it’s a skill I’ve worked to develop, but not always successfully. However, I read a story this week about impatience that made me giggle uncontrollably for a good ten minutes.
A PASSENGER on a bus got impatient of waiting on the driver to start his shift – so drove the vehicle herself.
Chen Li decided to do the... ...Read More
I've blogged about many many things in many many different places all over the web. It's exhausting. So instead I'm bringing it all together in one place, and hope that those of you I know and love won't mind if I natter about techie stuff, knitting, writing, or crack some wiseass remarks about random topics. Let's call it... holistic blogging. 
