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My baby is an excellent walker for 12 months but has suddenly realized that’s not always to his benefit. This morning he’s dramatically staggering around, bent over, looking like he’s been shot (he’s fine, if you pick him up he’s fine)

The Caves Of Steel

The Caves of Steel by Isaac Asimov 📚

This was a childhood favorite of mine, I hadn’t revisited in probably 25 or 30 years but I still remembered the mystery! It holds up better than I expected. Asimov gets a bad rap for his character writing, and certainly they serve the plot more than the other way around, but now that I’m not literally a child I am surprised to find I relate to Asimov characters a lot more, since many of them are motivated by things like maintaining their workplace reputation or getting new stuff for their apartment or hating their colleagues or whatever.

This book is genuinely pretty funny when it is parodying dramatic whodunit reveals, and clever in how it presents Elijah as our audience stand-in POV character, and then gradually reveals that as a New Yorker from the year 5000-something he is at least as alien to us as the robots or the Spacers.

This story also serves as an aspirational fantasy: though cars exist for special circumstances, nearly all human transportation is done by foot.

Booked my eye surgery for next month! Technically I can still turn back but I don’t think I’m going to. Nonetheless I’m semi-shocked I’m really gonna do it

My daughter is now in that mega-cute stage where she talks like me and my husband do but with some remaining little kid traits mixed in (like she says “him” instead of “he”). Pretty soon the peer influence era begins

Testing out the crossposting features of micro.blog. I believe I’ll get replies in this other app 🤔 No idea how this will display

I’m trying out this new service! I love trying out services. (Not sarcasm.)