Dept. of Good Things

[kaffy_r]

Stuff I'm Happy About

Since I think I've spent too many recent posts bitching and moaning about stuff, here are some random — very random — things about which I'm happy. 

I remembered, thanks to this neat piece at Tor.com, how much I adore Cordwainer Smith. He is, as the writer states, one of the Great Peculiars of SF&F. Anyone out there a reader of his work? 

In what is a first for me, or certainly for the first time in a long time, I started and completed a news feature story in the same day, without the nerves and trepidation which that task has lately engendered in me; what's more, I feel as if I've done a good job. 

After two days of undoubtedly necessary rain, we had a glorious fall day. 

I managed to confirm that my iPad and laptop bag, which I'd mistakenly left in a union meeting when I grabbed the wrong bag, was safe, and that I could swap the bags tomorrow. Relief!

I am not achy today, and that's good. 

Kitties!

And tomorrow is Friday. Hurrah!

Comments

[shanghaied]

I was going to call Cordwainer Smith a master of the prettiest science fiction wordcraft after Bradbury and Wyndham, but I see another commenter already got part of the way there ahead of me :-) Still, it's true!

Some years ago, an olde-tyme sci-fi editor-publisher sent me a hardcover of The Rediscovery of Man collection as a thankyou for favours rendered. Back in '07 I was railroaded into lending it to the slimy cellardweller brother of a Necessity Friend. Guess who has never given it back and claims to have lost it? Graaah.

[kaffy_r]

And not only his wordcraft, which one Smith researcher said often appeared to be built the same way Chinese myths are built (not surprising, given his background), but his ideas.

Oh lord, losing that collection to a jerk definitely rates a "Graaah."