Involuntarily awake.

The downside of being a cyborg: mechanical failure can cause mental and physical damage.

In this case, the valve on my mask has started whistling erratically. Loudly, too. Enough to wake me up, among others.

Involuntarily awake.

The downside of being a cyborg: mechanical failure can cause mental and physical damage.

In this case, the valve on my mask has started whistling erratically. Loudly, too. Enough to wake me up, among others.

Update (it's all about me)

Went to work very early, came home very early, Elizabear helped me find the problem on the mask: the valve housing was separating at a lamination. Cyanoacrylate applied and clamped with rubber bands. I'm still buzzing from my midmorning quadruple espresso mocha; shortly after that stops I will attempt a nap. In any case, new mask is on order.

Update (it's all about me)

Went to work very early, came home very early, Elizabear helped me find the problem on the mask: the valve housing was separating at a lamination. Cyanoacrylate applied and clamped with rubber bands. I'm still buzzing from my midmorning quadruple espresso mocha; shortly after that stops I will attempt a nap. In any case, new mask is on order.

Books

_Passage_, Lois McMaster Bujold
_Bolo_, David Weber

_Passage_ is the third book of Bujold's _Sharing Knife_ series, which is rural, possibly post-magical-apocalyptic fantasy in a secondary world that feels like 18th C America. In this installment, we go rafting down the Mississippi. There are pirates. This book would make no sense without you having read the prior two, but it does tell a self-contained story-plot. Recommended for fans of Bujold, people who liked the first two, and people who like Card's rural mode.

_Bolo_ is four pieces of warporn set in Keith Laumer's universe. Since Weber is a master of warporn, this makes sense. The themes, as standard for books about gigantic AI-driven tanks, are honor, wartime ethics, the nobility of self-sacrifice and the desirability of peace. Also blowing things up real good. Considered in its place, this book only has one real flaw: there appear to only be a few ways to describe coruscating beams of unstoppable force, and Weber seems to use the same two or three phrases over and over again.

Books

_Passage_, Lois McMaster Bujold
_Bolo_, David Weber

_Passage_ is the third book of Bujold's _Sharing Knife_ series, which is rural, possibly post-magical-apocalyptic fantasy in a secondary world that feels like 18th C America. In this installment, we go rafting down the Mississippi. There are pirates. This book would make no sense without you having read the prior two, but it does tell a self-contained story-plot. Recommended for fans of Bujold, people who liked the first two, and people who like Card's rural mode.

_Bolo_ is four pieces of warporn set in Keith Laumer's universe. Since Weber is a master of warporn, this makes sense. The themes, as standard for books about gigantic AI-driven tanks, are honor, wartime ethics, the nobility of self-sacrifice and the desirability of peace. Also blowing things up real good. Considered in its place, this book only has one real flaw: there appear to only be a few ways to describe coruscating beams of unstoppable force, and Weber seems to use the same two or three phrases over and over again.