Our oven died during the height of the pandemic. It took MONTHS for the replacement to arrive.
The guy tasked with the delivery and Installation pulled the dead unit partly out to see what was behind it and found DANGLING LIVE WIRES with EXPOSED TIPS. They weren’t part of the oven’s power...
I get questions like this often enough that I just started a list in my Notes App:
Ben Bova The Grand Tour
David Brin Uplift Saga
Harry Turtledove Darkness Saga
Kristine Katherine Rusch The Retrieval Artist
CJ Cherryh Foreigner
Barbara Hambly has made a name for herself in genre fiction, but...
On a lighter note…
I am a halfling thief
Capable of stealing improbable things
I am a halfling thief
Capable of stealing improbable things
I am a halfling thief
Capable of stealing improbable things
I am a halfling thief
Capable of stealing improbable things
Ooooohhhhh
There’s filchable...
Again, though, reliving your experiences with bullies & other problematic people before your adult intellect had a meaningful impact on improving your outcomes would be stressful.
Ditto reliving certain tragedies you’d have little chance- if any- of averting would likewise be difficult.
And of...
There was a topic that generated a LOT of attention a decade ago+ ago that touched on my professional experiences. At the time, I’d get involved in every thread involving that topic. This was very much me:
After months of this, I made one big summation of my position and posted it in the...
No joke, when I was a teenager, I was an usher at my city’s local theater group’s performance of “Taming of the Shrew” as a western, complete with thick drawls. It was brilliant!
Petrucio to Katherina, “Whut, with mah tung in yer tayul?”