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Some days I wish I could just go home after a long day at work and relax. But I just won't let myself do that. I get home and see the 3 million things that need to be done. And then I try and do some of them.

Also, mowing the lawn was not letting my ankle rest. It's still swollen.

We are also in war with the DVR. It refuses to record Torchwood! We set it up to record, make it the highest priority, nothing else is scheduled to record, and nothing happens. Or even worse it records something neither of us have ever heard of. I need to sit down with it and kick it's settings into shape.

So I've missed the first 3 days of Torchwood now, and BBCA is editing out 30 minutes from each episode when they reply them. WTF? I do have it burned to disk from downloads of the British airing, but I'm sure the quality would be better from BBCA. Very annoyed with it now.

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Some days I wish I could just go home after a long day at work and relax. But I just won't let myself do that. I get home and see the 3 million things that need to be done. And then I try and do some of them.

Also, mowing the lawn was not letting my ankle rest. It's still swollen.

We are also in war with the DVR. It refuses to record Torchwood! We set it up to record, make it the highest priority, nothing else is scheduled to record, and nothing happens. Or even worse it records something neither of us have ever heard of. I need to sit down with it and kick it's settings into shape.

So I've missed the first 3 days of Torchwood now, and BBCA is editing out 30 minutes from each episode when they reply them. WTF? I do have it burned to disk from downloads of the British airing, but I'm sure the quality would be better from BBCA. Very annoyed with it now.

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I'm enjoying Quarter Share the first book in the Golden Age of the Solar Clipper series by Nathan Lowell. The suggestion was given to me by Abby, the author of one of my favorite podiobook series, Prophet of Panamindorah on the latest episode of her fiction feed.

It's very Joss Whedon's, Firefly, but with less danger/gun fights/cannibles. There are aspects of The Rookie by Scott Sigler too, in the smuggling aspects. I like it because it's very low key. The main characters aren't in mortal danger at all times. It's interesting, in a "the ins and outs of the economy of a futuristic time" kind of way. It is advertised as "a trader's tale", so this isn't a surprise. There is some action and many problems for the characters, it's not dry or boring at all. Its just that all of the action is more financial and intellectual, and less of the getting shot at or mauled by aliens variety. And I'm only 3/4 of the way through the first book. There are two more released already, with another on the way.

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I'm enjoying Quarter Share the first book in the Golden Age of the Solar Clipper series by Nathan Lowell. The suggestion was given to me by Abby, the author of one of my favorite podiobook series, Prophet of Panamindorah on the latest episode of her fiction feed.

It's very Joss Whedon's, Firefly, but with less danger/gun fights/cannibles. There are aspects of The Rookie by Scott Sigler too, in the smuggling aspects. I like it because it's very low key. The main characters aren't in mortal danger at all times. It's interesting, in a "the ins and outs of the economy of a futuristic time" kind of way. It is advertised as "a trader's tale", so this isn't a surprise. There is some action and many problems for the characters, it's not dry or boring at all. Its just that all of the action is more financial and intellectual, and less of the getting shot at or mauled by aliens variety. And I'm only 3/4 of the way through the first book. There are two more released already, with another on the way.