I am alive (but my computer was sick)

When your computer decides to give you a blank stare (usually it's blue, but could be also grey,  if you're a lucky Mac owner) life turns pretty hectic. You realize just how much you depend now on that one piece of silicon and metal to handle your life. Suddenly, you are helpless. You  scramble for your  old notebook to figure out things like your friend's birthday or the  bank account number (that you're not supposed to write down....) In half-a-day you get internet withdrawal  and  become anxious about missing important emails... and then your Facebook friends get mad at you for not responding to their witty status updates. Next thing to go is your Twitter, because people, unaccustomed to such long silence from you, start worrying about your well-being, or maybe not being, since what can  prevent you from  keeping up with BOTH Twitter and Facebook? Only grievous health problem or death.

And then those lucky bastards who still  have their computers with their address books intact, look up that seldom used  phone number and your phone starts ringing.


I am exaggerating of course, since my internet footprint is not nearly big enough to get a sizable impact on Twitter traffic (I am considering changing my name to something containing Bieber and THEN we'll see). However, losing the use of my laptop for a while totally unhinged my life. Work was a mess,  I almost missed my friend's birthday, I forgot to remind my son about a workshop he was supposed to go to etc etc.
And, to top it all, I lost (sadly irretrievably) around a dozen reviews I've written for this blog. Curse my silly desire to  double spell-check everything before posting. Now, I'll be doing it right away, Gods of proper grammar be damned.

So, instead of reviewing book in order I've read them, I'll be going backwards.
Starting tonight with Hex Hall and Demonglass by R. Hawkins.