Cake AND death

Had time to stop for a gingerbread latte on the way to work this morning. Yay.
Promptly spilled coffee all over my white sweater. Boo.

Got a slice of their yummy pumpkin loaf for breakfast. Yay.
Turns out someone mixed up the batter and used banana bread batter instead of pumpkin loaf batter, which I discovered after taking a bite out of it. Eating banana in any amount makes me very, very unpleasantly ill. Boo.
Starbucks in question is 25 miles away in Fair Lakes so can't go run back in there. Boo. I should probably call them though.

[Edit: Called them, they responded with what seemed to me the appropriate amount of concern and offered me tomorrow's drink on the house. I never have time to go in there in the mornings so I declined, but points to them for taking it seriously.]

Stuff I've been reading

Lots of B5 tie-ins, specifically The Passing of the Techno-Mages and the Bester trilogy.

44. The Shadow Within, Jeanne Cavelos (Anna and Morden backstory about what happened on Z'ha'dum, prequel to the Techno-Mage arc. )
    
45. Casting Shadows
    
46. Summoning Light
    
47. Invoking Darkness. A friend recommended this as not only being good tie-ins, but also being a good stand-alone story; I agree. Galen is a great character.


48. Dark Genesis: The Birth of the Psi Corps, J. Gregory Keyes
    
49. Deadly Relations: Bester Ascendant
    
50. Final Reckoning: The Fate of Bester. I picked these up because I was always intrigued by Bester's character. (Although I admit that I keep hearing "Eee! Now say 'nuclear wessels'!" in my head as I'm reading.) I thought they were okay tie-ins, but I thought the Techno-mage books were just better all around.


51. Larklight: A Rousing Tale of Dauntless Pluck in the Farthest Reaches of Space, Philip Reeve. A boy's own tale of space pirates, giant spiders, and adventure set in an alternate Victorian era in which space travel is a fact of life and is accomplished via alchemy. Utterly charming, and now I have to pick up the sequel which was just recently released. (Starcross: A Stirring Adventure of Spies, Time Travel and Curious Hats)


I know I'm missing at least two books, but I forgot to make note of them and I cannot for the life of me remember what they were. Clearly, they must've been really engaging. ;) Currently, I'm alternating between Wikinomics: How Mass Collaboration Changes Everything and The Orphan's Tales: In the Night Garden.

[Twitter] Today's tweets

• 09:54 Good: had time to stop for a gingerbread latte this morning. Bad: promptly spilling said latte all over my white sweater. Yay Monday. =/ #
• 14:27 Why can't I delete a tweet? Click the trashcan, nothing happens. #
• 17:39 @brianaker I'm crushed to find out you're not an Aaron Carter fan. ;) #
• 22:44 Wondering how the @#$% I managed to injure my knee while doing laundry. WTF? Ow! #

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[EDIT: "Tags: array(0xd2ca468)" How'd that happen? It amuses me enough that I think I'll leave it as is.]