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I was reading a SGA/H50 crossover and while I liked it, I kept getting tripped up every time Danny was mentioned. An AU about a sci fi show requires a lot of suspension of belief, but there is no conceivable universe in which Danny Williams willingly leaves Grace. (There was no mention of Grace at all, so maybe this was a reality in which she didn't exist, but then Danny would never have gone to Hawaii.)

I've finished a couple of books, including a YA book called Echo by Pam Muñoz Ryan that I really enjoyed. I'm currently reading Tower of Swallows from the Witcher series and Stumbling Into Grace by Lisa Harper, and listening to The Night Watchman by Louise Erdrich.

I read the last chapters of Prince Caspian to my children today. I may have mentioned this before, but if not, since the pandemic, I've been doing daily videos for my kids (the church's children) on our private fb group in addition to Sunday school lessons. It's a lot of books, lol. While most of them are obviously short children's books, I've also done a couple chapters at a time from The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe and Prince Caspian. Trying to decide now if I want to go on to Voyage of the Dawn Treader, or switch to another favorite like The Hobbit or the first Harry Potter book, or pick something more kid-like, maybe the Ralph books or the Bunnicula series.

Links:

First vaccine to fully immunize against malaria builds on pandemic-driven RNA tech

The Desperate Plea of the Hellbender (Don't build cairns when you're out hiking!)

an interesting article about the series finale of Lost

Levar Burton talking about the Dr Seuss thing

what a way to make a living by attheborder
Good Omens || Aziraphale/Crowley || 5557
Without any more assignments coming from Downstairs, Crowley is struck with a bad case of the doldrums. It takes a bit of trial and error, but eventually a solution is found. (Or: the one where Crowley becomes an Uber driver.)
Not only was this a fun read, but I really appreciated the writing style!

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So, today officially sucks.

My dad is currently undergoing emergency surgery. His meds have been working to stop the fluid accumulation in his abdomen, but he's got a hernia. He's been fine though! Apparently he went with my aunt today and was having severe abdominal pain after cleaning out her shed and she had to call the ambulance for him, so he's at the hospital up there (it's like an hour or so away, and it's a different hospital group than the one he would go to down here, so they don't have me and Kristina (my sister-in-law) as his contacts, they have my aunt. And no one is allowed to be with him or to wait at the hospital - they told my aunt she can come back in the morning. We're hoping that someone will call Kristina after the surgery to give her an update, but idk. My dad has COPD and CHF, so any type of procedure is dangerous.

While I'm talking to Kristina about this, Ronnie comes stomping in the house and says someone ran over Finley. So I go running outside, and Ronnie's truck is stopped in the middle of the road up the street and Miranda is sitting in the road crying and there's this cat and we can't tell for sure which one it is because it's getting dark, but it's definitely dead. Ronnie picked him up (that's why he had come back to the house, to get gloves and a box) and we could tell it wasn't Finley because Finley has a distinctive half mustache marking on his face. But it was Inara, one of the outside cats from Chris's house. Chris was gone, so I had to wait for her to get home to go over and take Inara to her. We're going to bury her in the morning. But ughhhhh. One of the neighbors said he saw the cat get hit and whoever it was just kept on going.

So yeah, today has been shitty and I kinda wanna curl up and sleep until it all goes away but I also won't be able to sleep because my anxiety level is jacked way up.