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Books

Book Recommendations, in addition…

January 11, 2013July 24, 2011 5 Comments by Ruth

I posted a bunch of Urban Fantasy book recommendations not to long ago. Realized today I’d forgotten a series.

The Trickster Novels by Rob (short for Robyn, female) Thurman. Now I don’t care for Thurman’s Cal Leandros series, but the two Trickster books have caught my attention. Trick of Light, and The Grimrose Path, are the two titles, they’re a deliberate mix of Christian, Norse, and Native American (and probably a bunch of others) mythologies, done up with a twist or two. No idea how long the premise will hold up (I’m thinking that it won’t hold up for to many more books, but we’ll see), but I’ve enjoyed the first two anyway.

And of course Helene mentioned S.M. Stirling‘s Change series. For the people who wanted to know just how society would manage if suddenly electricity went away. Just a note of warning for anyone who picks up a Stirling book, in his older stuff especially, but still to some degree in his new stuff, he LIKES making his bad guy a GRAPHICALLY sadistic, intelligently evil, person. You have been warned. Don’t come back complaining about the blood, rapine, and slaughter.

Dog, Politics

Update on Kapone

January 11, 2013July 22, 2011 by Ruth

Previous post here.

According to the Where’s Kapone Facebook page the reward has gone all the way up to $11,000 thanks to donations from a variety of sources.

The Animal Control Officer who picked up Kapone and Jersey has been arrested on charges of Animal Cruelty and falsifying records. Infact its currently standing at 2 counts of Animal Cruelty. After the warrent had been issued the ACO was out picking up another dog that had been supposedly hit by a car, someone at MAS warned her the police were waiting for her, so instead of bringing the dog right back she drove around for a couple hours, till the police were gone. By the time she got back to the shelter the dog in her truck was dead, and the attending Vet says the cause of death was heat stroke, not the injuries from being by a car. The charges of falsifying records appears to stem from the very incident where Kapone went missing. According to her testemony and the shelter records she went out to pick up two dogs reported loose. She reported verbally picking up two dogs, but instead of returning directly to the shelter she went home for an extended period of time. She then returned to the shelter, and filled out paperwork for a dog matching Kapone’s description, but there is no record (including video) of her bring a dog into the shelter at that time dispite this paperwork. She then went back out and drove around some more before returning to the shelter and doing paperwork for Jersey and bringing her into the shelter. Please note that Memphis does NOT have GPS tracking on its ACO’s vehicles, infact a company offered to donate them a while back and MAS refused stating they didn’t need them, so there is no way to confirm exactly where this ACO and her vehicle were when they were not at the shelter.

Guns

Letter

January 11, 2013July 22, 2011 by Ruth

The letter to the judge asking for waiver actually arrived on Wednesday (which doesn’t actually surprise me), the return delivery confirmation hasn’t been triggered yet, but sometimes they don’t, so we’ll see.

Guns

I almost forgot

January 11, 2013July 21, 2011 by Ruth

On Tueaday I mailed out my request for waiver of the rule that requires my references be from the same county as me. Put it out priority so I can get delivery confirmation on when it arrives (I’ll check it tomorrow), and I included a SASE, also priority so hopefully I can track when they mail the response. We’ll see how long it takes.

Nothing Much

Visitors to this blog

January 11, 2013July 21, 2011 by Ruth

I’ve had fun the last couple weeks watching the visitors to this blog via SiteMeter. I’ve gotten to “know” the regulars, but its always interesting to see where the remainder of folks wander through, from and to. I have to admit to some surprise when I checked today and discovered that over the last couple days I’ve had hits from two different military establishments (the one from the Army Corp of Engineers actually spend some time too!) which I’ll admit is cool, but then this afternoon someone from a Law firm in MI stopped in briefly! Well, I guess someone’s been following links!

Apollo, Dog

Apollo and the wildlife

January 11, 2013July 20, 2011 by Ruth

He’s been fascinated by the birds since he first saw them. His attempts to stalk up on the robins are totally worth the laugh.

He saw his first wild bunny a couple months ago and was very puzzled “wth is that? Hey! It moved! Does that mean I can chase it? Cool!” By this time he no longer hesitates when he see’s the wild rabbits, he just takes off after them. So far they’ve always gotten away, but I have to wonder for how much longer, he’s FAST!

Yesterday he saw his first baby bunnies, and was very peeved when I wouldn’t let him give chase. The babies are to cute, and he might actually be able to catch them.

Today he was so busy searching for baby bunnies that he completely missed the turkeys at the back of the yard in the shade near the stream. To bad, I’m looking forward to the mutual reactions when he spots his first wild turkeys. I can’t promise video though I’ll try, I suspect I’ll either be laughing to hard, or running to save him from the big birds!

Apollo, Cats, Dog

Wait, what??

January 11, 2013July 16, 2011 by Ruth

Watching the news tonight and saw this.. Srsly folks?? Ipecac syrup?? Honey, if your daughter is making herself puke to the point of death then there were an awfull lot of signs and symptoms that you, as the ever loving mother, were oblivious too and where you could have stepped in, and didn’t. Stop blaming the rest of the world for your failure.

Edited to add: If they can charge parents with cruelty and endangerment for refusing medical treatment for a child, how in hell do parents in situations like this avoid charges of at LEAST endangerment?

Fail, Guns

To the Spammer who…..Redux

January 11, 2013July 15, 2011 by Ruth

Back in April I posted short note about an idiot who thought my “gun blog” ment I should buy ammo from him and share his links around. Yah right. I posted, put the company’s website on my “do not buy from” bookmarks and forgot about it.

Turns out that the same company that was spamming me, was spamming a bunch of other folks, and doing so in a way that is decidedly iffy if technically legal. Go read the whole thing, as well as the first post on the subject over at Walls of the City.

Personally that set of information just made sure that I WON’T be buying anything from any of the associated sites.

H/T to Zercool

Nothing Much

Request for info….

January 11, 2013July 14, 2011 5 Comments by Ruth

So, I ran across the Sottevest products the other day. I gotta say I like the concept, I already carry the smallest purse I can find, the only reason I haven’t ditched it enirely is that at some point I’ll forget to move stuff between pants pockets(the cops don’t like it when you tell them you don’t have your license on you cause yesterdays pants are in the dirty laundry). They’ve got lotsa reviews linked to from a bunch of sites….but anyone out there acually used any of this? Specifcally the coats and vests and the like? I’m hard on my clothes…..and it gets cold up here in the winter!