A special weekend indeed
Apr. 15th, 2022 10:12 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
vamysteryfan A joyous Passover to all celebrating! Today is Good Friday, as we get ready for Easter.
Today is the 110th anniversary of the sinking of the Titanic. This morning, a little after midnight, they laid a wreath at the Titanic Memorial, ringing a ship's bell and offering toasts to the men who gave up their seats on the lifeboats to women and children. Then, all weekend the Park Service and Friends of the Memorial will have displays in the park about the history of those who died and who survived. Interesting stuff - not just the famous people but crew and others.
I'm a little freaked out. I'd heard one of my neighbors was in the hospital. I was worried but not a lot. He's in a wheelchair and often has an overnight stay for one reason or another. He's the man who was born on Independence Day. - you might remember we had an outdoor party for him last July. Today I found out he fell out of his wheelchair and broke several bones in his neck. I'm hoping to get more information about his prognosis soon. He's in my thoughts a lot - he's been a good neighbor.
Books, I read them. I just finished A Deadly Education and The Last Graduate, Naomi Novik's books about the Scholomance. The Scholomance is not Hogwarts or The Folly. There are no teachers and there are things actively trying to kill the students. You graduate by surviving. I found the first one hard to get into but the second was much better. I'm looking forward to the third. And then I read a cute YA novella from Ben Aaronovitch about Abigail, the girl who talks to foxes in the Rivers of London series.
I'm up to episode 6 of The Gilded Age. We're doing it the old-fashioned way - one episode a week. How did I ever survive a summer waiting for the answers to cliffhangers?
Have a great weekend, whatever you are doing!
Today is the 110th anniversary of the sinking of the Titanic. This morning, a little after midnight, they laid a wreath at the Titanic Memorial, ringing a ship's bell and offering toasts to the men who gave up their seats on the lifeboats to women and children. Then, all weekend the Park Service and Friends of the Memorial will have displays in the park about the history of those who died and who survived. Interesting stuff - not just the famous people but crew and others.
I'm a little freaked out. I'd heard one of my neighbors was in the hospital. I was worried but not a lot. He's in a wheelchair and often has an overnight stay for one reason or another. He's the man who was born on Independence Day. - you might remember we had an outdoor party for him last July. Today I found out he fell out of his wheelchair and broke several bones in his neck. I'm hoping to get more information about his prognosis soon. He's in my thoughts a lot - he's been a good neighbor.
Books, I read them. I just finished A Deadly Education and The Last Graduate, Naomi Novik's books about the Scholomance. The Scholomance is not Hogwarts or The Folly. There are no teachers and there are things actively trying to kill the students. You graduate by surviving. I found the first one hard to get into but the second was much better. I'm looking forward to the third. And then I read a cute YA novella from Ben Aaronovitch about Abigail, the girl who talks to foxes in the Rivers of London series.
I'm up to episode 6 of The Gilded Age. We're doing it the old-fashioned way - one episode a week. How did I ever survive a summer waiting for the answers to cliffhangers?
Have a great weekend, whatever you are doing!
