Daily Reading, Tuesday May 12th

[ironed_orchid]

What have you been reading today?

Everything counts, from a novel-length fic to the labels on your washing.

Comments

[alexseanchai]

This crochet pattern. I got some pretty earrings out of it, too, even though where it says round two is single crochets it LIES. scs are just flat out not tall enough. I did round two as double crochets instead and it worked marvelously. I have no photos though, as I'm not sure where I put my jewelry-photographing backgrounds and my usual substitute (the sewing table) is blocked in by all my sister's dorm room stuff, so I have no good background to photograph my new earrings against. ETA: Wait, no, I found a substitute (the card table):



I am probably going to poke at The Wisdom of Hypatia some more on lunch break.

[weaverbird]

Oh, they are pretty!

[alexseanchai]

\o/

[ironed_orchid]

Nice earrings.

I was reading a sourdough recipe in a published book that called for 3/4 cup of starter, 3/4 cup of water, and 1/2 cup of flour, and then said I should mix them in a 1 cup measuring jug, and cover with plastic wrap. It's pretty clear from the quantities that I will need to use a 2 cup measuring jug, but somehow it got through the proof reading and copy editing.

[weaverbird]

When I realized I had 60 tabs open, I set about bookmarking and closing them, which meant skimming many of them for pull-quotes. Later, I'll read more Jane Eyre.

[ironed_orchid]

60 tabs!

I often treat my recent browsing history like bookmarks, especially when I've opened thing sin tabs but didn't get around to finishing.

[weaverbird]

Heh. 60 tabs is nothing much, for me. I think my personal record is 500-something. Took me more than a day to bookmark and close them all. I have this habit of opening anything that looks interesting with the intention of reading it promptly. I open tab groups for each general topic and stash them there and that's when "out of sight, out of mind" kicks in and the total gets out of hand. Learned my lesson recently when I had a hard drive failure and lost 379 tabs - poof! - all that interesting stuff lost to me - so I have resolved to do better about getting things bookmarked promptly.

[ironed_orchid]

Well, then you should enjoy our next post, which is the first Wednesday Intended Reading post.

[ironed_orchid]

I was doing some much needed maintenance on my computer, so I read a lot of screens which said things like "38% of updates installed, do not turn off your computer"

I had the day off, so I also managed about 6 chapters of Gaudy Night.

[weaverbird]

Gaudy Night has one of my favorite minor characters in the Lord Peter 'verse - St. George. His "Oh, look! your bag's opened itself wide and all the little oojahs have gone down the steps," was so goofy and charming that he won my heart then and there.

(Now I want to re-read it. You're a bad influence, you. *g*)

[ironed_orchid]

Well I decided to re-read it, and the other books with Harriet Vane, due to the lovely essay in The Toast last week: On Harriet Vane and Lord Peter Wimsey: An Essay with Personal Interruptions, by Mo Moulton.

St. George is fun. (I was about to say something nice about him, but realised it's a spoiler for the next book, and others in the community might not have read them yet.)

[weaverbird]

Annnnnnnnnd now I have another tab open. :) Thanks for the link, that essay looks wonderful.

[fred_mouse]

the only things I remember reading yesterday are minutes for meetings that I should already have sent out (proofing, making coherent) and some ephemera I was transcribing/proofing transcriptions on. Oh, and work stuff.