Network

Current Mood: confused
Current Music: nothing now

Fidelity.

For no reason I'm capable of understanding, starting sometime yesterday, my iPhone and iPad stopped connecting to my home wifi. The network was there, the devices acknowledged it, and my desktop was always able to tap into it through the relevant connecting device. The desktop's too old to have inbuilt wifi capabilities, but the iPhone and iPad were new enough they've got it, except it wasn't in them. They kept saying the password was wrong. I checked on the wifi router provided by the phone and internet company and typed it in, several times, and neither device acknowledged it as correct. I tried the trick of having the devices forget about the network before trying to reconnect, and it didn't work.

Resetting the route managed it, somehow. I'd be better able to understand what happened if the desktop also didn't get it for a while, but it did, so I have to wonder where things got messed up. Because there was a problem that got fixed, and it wasn't a problem for everything.

Current Mood: cheerful

Reading day

Got up late again, had breakfast and coffee.

I spent most of the day reading. I finished Artists in Crime. and I started The Blue Hour.

I did di a teensy amount of work in the house, not much but enough to say I had.

Happily I was able to Team the FWiB early, at around 6:40 so by the time 8:00 rolled around and I had to get off for the D&D group, we had had about an hour and a half together so that was nice. My psychiatrist called, and we talked.

We didn't play anything tonight, we just discussed our next game , which is not going to be D&D or Pathfinder, but a very different game, Monster of the Week. I played that once, fortunately, so I'm not totally in the dark about it. I'm going to play the Changeling avatar.

We only hung out til 9:00. After I got off, I had dinner, and then went and read more til pet feeding time.

I fed the pets, and here I am.

Tomorrow I'm getting up at 7:00 and going to a march on Wall Street with my union.

Gratitude List:

1. The FWiB.

2. My D&D group.

3. Good books.

4. My cold continues to improve.

5. My union.

6. Almost payday.

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12 pen person questions!

Here's my own response to the 12 pen person questions, below the cut because it is pretty long. i did skip a couple of questions as i simply didn't have an answer.

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Wavefunction Collapse

https://xkcd.com/3134/

Current Mood: sore

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Wednesday Reading: Mother of Souls by Heather Rose Jones (Alpennia series)

Serafina, a woman of Ethiopian ancestry, has come to Alpennia in hopes of developing her gift of mystical vision. She has left behind an increasingly loveless marriage to a man who has come to prefer traveling Europe in support of his own professional interests. But although Serafina manages to secure the interest of Margerit Sovitre, now the royal thaumaturge, the nature of Serafina's own powers remains frustratingly elusive: although she can see visions and vividly describe them, she does not seem to be able to manipulate the energies she sees. Serafina becomes disappointed with her own lack of utility and feels increasingly that she will always be the outsider in the society of Alpennia.

While she works with Margerit, Serafina lodges with Luzie Valorin, a widowed music teacher who has hopes of becoming a composer and who rents rooms to help support her two young sons. As the two women become close, Serafina begins to wonder whether there is something more than just musical talent in Luzie's compositions.

Meanwhile, Margerit and her inner circle continue their lives and their work. Margerit starts to make her dreams of a university that accepts women as equals a reality, Antuniet starts a Great Work that is not what it seems, and Barbara earnestly pursues the responsibilities of a baroness — until a near-tragedy interrupts her new routine.

Providing an uneasy background to all this activity is the condition of the nation of Alpennia itself. The principal river is running low and not flooding as expected. The more sensitive of this group of adepts start to suspect that this situation is not natural.

These disparate elements come together for a very interesting climax. I enjoyed this one.

Some reviewers have noted that the previous Alpennia books focus on the lives of women of wealth and position who have the resources of money and status to enable them to lead the lives of their choices. Here, Jones starts to focus on women who do not have such great advantages. Serafina and Luzie are leading comfortable-enough lives, but they are both very much dependent on their current somewhat-precarious sources of income: Serafina on a stipend from her husband, who assumes that she is back home in Rome, and Luzie on her pupils and the musical odd jobs (transcription and such) that she does for a well-known composer.

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