Category Archives: General

August 2022 in Review

Posted on August 31, 2022 by smellincoffee

It’s…er, been a while since I did a monthly update. Science Survey Doing well! The science survey for 22 is completed,  with sixteen titles fulfilling my twelve categories. I’d like to finish the year with at least 20 science titles, … Continue reading →

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Ten Years of the Classics Club

Posted on August 18, 2022 by smellincoffee

The Classics Club recently celebrated its 10-year anniversary, and posed some questions to its readers. I began participating in 2015, wrapping up my first list in 2020 and starting a new one weeks later. My original plan with the Classics … Continue reading →

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Book meme remix liberated from CK

Posted on August 17, 2022 by smellincoffee

Cyberkitten recently posted a couple of book memes, and I’m borrowing questions from both. What’s the first book you remember reading? The earliest reading memory I have is a Sesame Street title involving Bert, Ernie, and some monster in the … Continue reading →

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Hail, Columbia!

Posted on July 13, 2022 by smellincoffee

In reading Bringing Columbia Home, the author referred to several videos — a surviving bit of cockpit footage, eleven minutes prior to the disaster, as well as a tribute video created during the recovery period. “There’s heavy grief in our … Continue reading →

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Midyear Book Freakout

Posted on July 11, 2022 by smellincoffee

Mid-Year Book Freakout Tag 2022 Yoinked from Cyberkitten Best book you’ve read so far in 2022 How to Think Like a Roman Emperor, Donald Robertson Best sequel you’ve read so far in 2022Crusader, Ben Kane. It followed Richard the Lionheart … Continue reading →

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Space Camp 2022

Posted on July 9, 2022 by smellincoffee

Last year, in observance of the anniversary of Apollo 11’s successful lunar landing on July 20, 1969, I planned for a week of space-exploration reading. I may have gotten a little carried away and kept reading astronaut books until the … Continue reading →

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Update

Posted on June 15, 2022 by smellincoffee

Good morning, all. Yesterday around 5 am I was taken down for transplant surgery. I am in recovery now. Lots of discomfort and some pain but those will pass in time. Kidney appears to be working.

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Exciting update

Posted on June 13, 2022 by smellincoffee

Earlier today at work I received a call from UAB, which at first sounded very routine: I was asked if anything had changed in the last few months. Then “Gregory” announced that they had a possible kidney for me, and … Continue reading →

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Warmer

Posted on June 1, 2022 by smellincoffee

I’m currently without internet (going on a week now) because AT&T is as efficient as one might expect a bloated former monopoly with decades of entrenched bureaucracy and labyrinthine phone trees to be. I’m still reading, though: I recently finished … Continue reading →

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Channeling my inner Veruca Salt

Posted on May 13, 2022 by smellincoffee

“Gooses! Geeses!”

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