Happy New Year 2024
Fitness Coach Vanburen says, "Going to Groomer is a Fitness. You get treats after and Ann says you are smooth and soft and shiny."
Hello, all!
I hope you've all recovered from whatever New Year celebrations you undertook. Coach and I turned in at our regular time and then got up and had ham and black eyed peas. Fortunately, Coach doesn't care one way or the other about fireworks or gunfire so it was a nice, relaxed evening. I'm also kind of relieved to have that weird sort-of-but-technically-not-intercalary week done, when time has no meaning and nothing seems to actually happen even when things are happening.
There really isn't much going on until April, when Lake of Souls comes out. I've been playing Pikmin Bloom, which is basically a pedometer with lots of fancy decorations, and playing it is really just taking a Walk Fitness, but it works for me. And I just started toying with a game called Foundation that's pretty fun so far! But that's all the even remotely news-like stuff I have to report.
Oh, please don't worry about Fitness Coach Vanburen, the shampoo smell wears off in a day or two and he finally smells like himself again, much to his relief.
I meant to mention in the last newsletter that I had read Chuck Tingle's Camp Damascus. I really enjoyed it, and I suspect you would, too.
I also read Paladin's Faith, by T. Kingfisher. You don't want to start there, if you're interested start with Paladin's Grace.
Oh, and A Death at the Dionysus Club by Melissa Scott and Amy Griswold. Once again, don't start there, start with Death by Silver.
Last but certainly not least, I've been listening to the audiobook of Adrian Tchaikovsky's Children of Time. I read the print book a while ago, and audio or print, this is a fabulous book. I mean, I'm not a big fan of spiders, I'm happy they exist but would prefer they do so far from me. But Adrian's spiders are wonderful.
Anyway, I hope your 2024 is as good as it can be, considering. Take care!