Book completed

Otters in Space, by Mary E. Lowd (2012) (reread).

This fun science fiction novel by a local author (who helped D. with his 8th grade mentorship project) was the perfect light read when I decided to take a break from the unrelenting nuclear/genocidal disasters of the last book in that Charles Stross series. In this book, humans have left Earth behind after using technology to elevate other species to sentience. Kipper, a cat whose sister is running for office on the platform of overcoming oppression by the dogs, heads to Ecuador in a quest to find the sister, who's gone missing, and in the belief that Ecuador is a promised cat utopia. It's not - it's just the base of the otters' space elevator, where Kipper has more adventures. Now I can reread the next book in the series and then finally finish the trilogy.

Okay...

I wrestled enough with the proposal for today, then I went downtown to get the new Modesitt book at the library and have dinner with J. Then we went to the game store, where one of J's sword-friends had come to join their Magic draft for the first time, and I saw two of D's friends as well. Then I came home and watched the third of the Hailey Dean mysteries (out of six), then spent an hour putting together a summary of some of our research for some guy at Duke.

It then started to pour rain, around 10 pm, with snow mixed in, and that's our forecast for the next ten days, "rain" or "rain/snow." *yawn* I'm glad it's the weekend.