Foggy Friday

Today J. decided not to drive two hours each way to see author Martha Wells at a book signing event in Beaverton, especially with Portland's rush hour traffic. Instead, we went for a walk in the fog, as it was starting to get dark:



Later, we watched this week's Friday movie, which was Predator. I hadn't seen it before.

J has so many vacation days left to use that he's taken every Friday off through the end of the year, plus his birthday, plus the week between Christmas and New Year's, and he still has three more days to take off somewhere...

Book completed

Paladin of Souls, by Lois McMaster Bujold. Reread. This is the sequel to The Curse of Chalion, in which poor Ista gets her life back. She's been considered "mad" for quite some time and is stuck in her family's castle, but then she decides she wants to go on a pilgrimage, and her daughter the new queen and Cazaril, from the earlier book, agree. Then she finds herself having to unravel an extremely difficult problem at a remote castle - the gods have called upon her once again. The book won the Hugo for best novel and was acclaimed as one of the few fantasy books featuring a middle-aged woman (Ista is 40). It's beautifully written, with some emotionally powerful scenes and a good ending.