Sunday 17th June, 2007

Happy Father’s Day for any fathers reading this.

Nothing much going on this week, but I’ve tweaked Finn‘s page a bit. Spot the difference! There isn’t much, I admit.

This week’s been a bit of a go-slow as I’m adjusting to a slightly longer working week – 25 hours a week instead of 15 at Netherhall School [External Link] and 2 hours a week at the Cumbria Biological Data Network (CBDN) [External Link]. I am aware this is not the hardest week in the world, but with the resulting travelling, transporting of puppy, 6:30am starts (yes, I do get up that early to ensure Finn is well looked after!), and so on, I’ve been a little knacked by the evening, making it hard to get any writing, genealogy or web-site stuff done. I’ll never make a domestic goddess or super-mum. Excuses, excuses, eh?

But, for entertainment’s sake, I thought I’d pass along this link. The Light of Other Days [External Link] by Bob SHAW was written in the 1960s and is considered one of the best science fiction shorts of the period. I read it years ago in an anthology from my then local library and loved the idea of “slow glass”. It’s since gone out of print but is now available on the web, as I was told on the T3A forums [External Link], so enjoy.