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The Big Chill, Post #32
Dec. 21st, 2022 09:17 amRight, let's see, what's happened since I last posted? My birthday (work, but then a great dinner out with my friend A), work madness, and a few days of catching up on small jobs around the house and rereading Jayne Ann Krentz romances+.
(The JAK books are in fact from the sprawling, many-years-in-the-making Arcane Society series: Victorian era romantic mystery under the Amanda Quick name, contemporary romantic suspense under her own name, and alternate-world vaguely-SF romances as Jayne Castle. The central conceit is that there are folk who through family or genetics or accident have para-talents, and the Arcane Society is a shadowy organization that sort of monitors those within it and investigates those who use their talents for evil. The mythology of the series now extends into books not initially marked as Arcane series, like her most recent trilogy of contemporary romantic suspense, where in the last book Arcane is explicitly mentioned. But honestly, in any JAK book written after, oh, 2005, if a character has the last name of Jones, they're Arcane. ;) Anyway, they're light and enjoyable, with some interesting worldbuilding.)
But now, as the solstice passes and Christmas nears, it's going to be DAMN COLD even in the subtropics.
I'd complain -- my HVAC is not up to temperatures below 36 or so, and it's going to be 8 degrees below that -- but I think the chill will be much worse elsewhere in the US, and I send warming thoughts and virtual hot tea to all, here and abroad.
Cheers and light!
(The JAK books are in fact from the sprawling, many-years-in-the-making Arcane Society series: Victorian era romantic mystery under the Amanda Quick name, contemporary romantic suspense under her own name, and alternate-world vaguely-SF romances as Jayne Castle. The central conceit is that there are folk who through family or genetics or accident have para-talents, and the Arcane Society is a shadowy organization that sort of monitors those within it and investigates those who use their talents for evil. The mythology of the series now extends into books not initially marked as Arcane series, like her most recent trilogy of contemporary romantic suspense, where in the last book Arcane is explicitly mentioned. But honestly, in any JAK book written after, oh, 2005, if a character has the last name of Jones, they're Arcane. ;) Anyway, they're light and enjoyable, with some interesting worldbuilding.)
But now, as the solstice passes and Christmas nears, it's going to be DAMN COLD even in the subtropics.
I'd complain -- my HVAC is not up to temperatures below 36 or so, and it's going to be 8 degrees below that -- but I think the chill will be much worse elsewhere in the US, and I send warming thoughts and virtual hot tea to all, here and abroad.
Cheers and light!
