techie librarian; meatier than a seahorse
Unexpected challenge of collecting omnibuses is working out reading order eg I bought the Captain America omnibus written by Ta-Nehisi Coates a year ago and didn't get round to reading it till last night...then realised that I needed to read the omnibuses written by Nick Spencer first.
Luckily I had recently ordered the Nick Spencer omnibuses, volumes 1 and 2, and they arrived last week. I leapt out of bed and grabbed the Nick Spencer v1 from my library and started it instead.
Wonderful to see Graeme continue the #blogjune tradition :)
https://graemeo28librarianbiker.wordpress.com/2026/06/01/uluru/
I am reading a book with glued binding...who even am I anymore...oh wait, that's because I can no longer download books from Amazon and Dungeon Crawler Carl books aren't available in the kobo store.
No ebook for me so I have had to buy the basic hardcover.
On it goes with A Parade of Horribles - the newly released book 8 of the series.
A few weeks ago, somebody in my feed boosted posts from someone who had been buying up generic servers eg used for users removed the system and monitoring the email.
Was a fascinating examination of a potential security issue.
Does anyone remember the posts?
Hmmm I now have 3 parcels via 3 different companies all likely to arrive next Wednesday:
secondhand book from Adelaide
pretty letterpress books from Canadia
whisky from Scotland
Though I no longer drink I still order the annual Cairdeas release from Laphroaig. Planning to have a multi-year flight available for my 60th...I think that means there'll be 7 years worth and each year is different.
A few years ago, I hosted a flight of 4 years and that was fab.
Woohoo the NSW Library Amendment Bill 2026 has passed both houses and now it needs to be sent to gov for assent:
https://www.parliament.nsw.gov.au/bills/Pages/bill-details.aspx?pk=18858
Wow, was in bed by 10.30, could be a new personal best...hoping that means lots of reading as I'm currently midway through Heretics of Dune by Frank Herbert. This is the 5th of 6 books and I have this beautiful set from Centipede Press (and a couple of other editions)
Fun commute home. Concert in Sydney finished just prior to 10pm, home a bit before 1am. Turns out track work on airport line meant buses from central or extra long train journey via the sticks.
Up till. 9pm, trains every 10 minutes or so, taking just over an hour. Post 9, trains every 30 minutes, taking 90 minutes for the trip.
The downside of forcibly migrating off amazon ebooks is that I can't get the latest Dungeon Crawler Carl instalment.
Amazon stopped allowing transfer via usb and other such workarounds which means I can't purchase and download from there, to load into my kobo.
Unable to download makes conversion to epub trickier.
Was in a teams meeting and laptop battery suddenly died. Quickly moved over to teams on my phone and continued on...seamlessly.
Previously I would have had to switch off hearing aid connectivity on phone, switch on on laptop for meeting and in this instance would have needed to re-enable connection on phone when laptop died.
With new hearing aids, I picked up phone, joined meeting and carried on, no reconnection required. Connection was still strong and active.
Better bluetooth management was a key attraction of new hearing aids and that has been fab.
Possibly my favourite email subject line:
"Your parcel is being prepared by the sender"
I love email from auspost. This time it's two Captain America omnibuses from a comic shop in Brissie.
Just committed and signed/paid deposit on solar panels + inverter + battery.
Woohoo.
Was quoted a couple of weeks ago but was busy. Rep contacted me on Monday that the battery supplier had offered a new promotion which dropped another $4k off the quote.
More woohoo!
We had our old panels removed a couple of years ago so we could replace the roof. Been meaning to get round to a new setup for a while.