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Just as I suspected as soon as I finished Foundation by Mercedes Lackey I wanted to read the next in the Collegium Chronicles series. It's just not fair! We spend most of the book just getting introduced to the time period and our hero, Mags, plus a tiny, teeny smidgen of palace intrigue and then the book ends. Perhaps I'll have to re-read some other Valdemar books while I'm waiting for the next Chronicle. Cuz I think it'll be awhile.

Now I'm reading the latest installment in the Stephanie Plum series, Fearless Fourteen. It's again hilarious. Stephanie just picks up the quirkiest companions. I'm almost at the end of the book and her car hasn't blown up yet. It's been tagged but not been on fire. I expect that'll happen very very soon.

We've had lots of lovely rain around here lately. I thought Sallie and I might run into some in our trip to Modesto on Sunday but we did not. It was overcast which made for good driving which I ended up doing again. I used to make Sallie drive all the time but I guess I'm getting used to it. Or I'm feeling more possessive of my car. The musical was very nice and I enjoyed singing some Christmasy songs. We might go back out for their Christmas Eve service. Sallie gets off early.

Speaking of road trips...I'm headed to the Valley for work on Thursday and we were going to leave very early in the morning to get down to Visalia for a 10:30am workshop. I balked at the 6am departure time and suggested we stay overnight tomorrow night somewhere closer to the site. My co-workers agreed precipitately and propitiously. Especially after I found rooms for less than $40/night through Hotwire. Man, I love that site.