The Zoo over Ambuscade Street

I can't find my Baen Honor Harrington CD. I suspect I know what happened to it...I think I loaned it to David. Stupid me. Does anyone know where I can obtain the last two Bellisarius books in HTML format, short of buying them again from the Baen Webscriptions site?

You wouldn't think that something free to distribute would be so freaking hard to find, but there you go - I can find just about anything illegal to distribute that I want, but the legal stuff? Nope, sorry.

I want that CD again! The Posleen disc isn't nearly as good, since Honor Harrington > Posleen any day of the week, despite the fact that the Posleen landed on the Hellhouse that I just moved out of and then blew up Central Park, Home of every store in Fredericksburg and every idiot in Virginia who wants to drive on the wrong side of the road. It's a horrible, horrible place - aliens couldn't pick a nicer place to destroy.

The weekend was fun - Erik mowed the lawn, and I lounged about and read the entire Tawny Man trilogy. Which made my head hurt. The Farseer trilogy and the Liveship Traders trilogy were almost completely unrelated, despite being set in the same world. But...they weren't. I want to know how far in advance did Robin Hobb plan that little mind-boggling twist in Golden Fool that threw me for a loop half-an-hour after I read it. If you read it, you know the one. I want to pry her head open and see how the plot played itself out in her brain, and where it occured to her to *mumblemumblemumble* This doesn't apply just to Robin Hobb - really, it applies to most of the authors I like who write multi-book series. How far in advance do you know how things are going to play out?

When I write, my characters tend to take over, and make it brutally clear to me that I don't know who they are or why they do things they do, and this is the way things are going to play out, thank-you-very-much. My journal's namesake was very much this way - I had planned for her to be a certain way, and, well...she wasn't. At all. I blame Mordath for my current open angry rage. ^_^

Do I have your attention yet? Good.

FUNimation is looking into funding a second season of Fruits Basket. I quote:

"Funimation is actively trying to raise US support for a second season of Fruits Basket. Mostly at conventions where they can interact with people diredctly. Current projects include a photo project, getting pictures taken at cons of people cosplaying, showing of Furuba related craft they've made, etc. These pics will end up being sent to Japan. Another thing they're hoping to get sent (if, and I'm sure they will, get enough) is a Thousand Paper Crane project. For those of you who aren't familiar with the tradition, legend says that if you fold one thousand paper cranes you'll get a wish. To this end, Funimation will have at their convention booths, origami paper and instructions for fans to pick up, so they can fold cranes and bring them back to the table at the con. Once they get enough, they'll send them along with the pictures from the other project off to Hakusensha or whomever is calling the shots on the other side of the pond."

If you can make it to a con, go to the FUNi booth and fold yourself some cranes. I may or may not make it to Otakon, but I may send them a few dozen by mail.

More Fruits Basket is an ironclad rule a good thing. (I meant to post this over the weekend, but was distracted by the too-too nice weather)

I am going to call Netflix every single freaking time the next Boys Over Flowers disc is available "now", and they ship me whatever the tenth, or fifteenth, or thirtieth disc in my queue is instead. Call them, waste time, and cost them money until I can see the rest of this show.

On a five-out plan, you'd think it would take rather less than two months to watch one series, especially when the turn-around time for each disc I rent is usually two to three business days. I rented 25 discs that shipped in March. Somehow, they can't ship me the ones I need to continue existing series, rather than starting new ones.

At least they shipped me the last disc of Orphen Season 2, so I can finally end the horribly-prolonged agony that watching this show causes. I started renting this back in December...