I thought I heard a WoJ from an interview that we would find out more about Cowl and Kumori in TM.

There was a mention of them and Harry was thinking they had something to do with Lash, but that was it.

My first read is usually for fun and then I give it some time before I read it again to try to look for story clues, but this one has me wanting to ask for help.

What did I miss?

Hey Dina,

The tooth pull went well.  I took a couple of Ibuprofen for a few days and didn't experience any pain or disruption.

It was the bottom tooth all the way on the back right side, so it isn't visible.  One thing I noticed when I flossed is that the bottom teeth on the other side seem to be spaced more than they were.  I'm not sure if I'm imagining it or not.  I'll ask the dentist next time I go in.

But all and all, things are going well for me these days. 

Hope you're ready for Christmas. 

Hi, weird!
Almost a month since my last post. There's been a lot going on. Sometimes it seems, that everybody wants a piece of my time. It's nice to be needed, but sometimes it feels a bit much. Now, things have quieted down a bit.
Micro wants me to crotchet some hand warmers for her, like gloves but without fingers. We've been to a store to buy some pink wool. I don't have pink at home, lol. There is a cool store in the city where my husband works. They have a whole room full of wool.
I don't know if I have told you yet, but I loooove wool. Different colours, different textures, just seeing and touching it. I jokingly call it my wool fetish, lol. When I inherited all of my grandmother's wool, I decided to do something with it. And I started to teach myself proper crotcheting. I don't like to knit, because the needles annoy me, but crotcheting is fine. It soothes me. I sometimes do some littles figures. For example, I made a little Dobby for Mini and currently I am working on a little Hedwig. Maybe, I'll make a little mandrake next.
In September, I made some finger puppets for the local children's fire fighters.
Some homeless people in the city are wearing warm winter caps and shawls made by me.
And once I made a little Pikachu on a keyring as a goodbye to a nice colleague who left us.

Regenbogen,

It is nice to have people who value me enough to ask for my time, but I also feel the weight of it.  I think it's better than the alternative, though. 

I really enjoyed reading your last post.  It's really nice that you can invest love into the gifts you give to people around you.  I'm sure that you are appreciated.

Wishing you and yours the best.

Regen, you are alive!
Congratulations about the family news, especially mini's internship. I am sure you will miss having her around all the time, but at least Denmark is not too far away from you.
Hello Don! I am so pleased you came back. I am doing well except for some health issues that are not terrible but not ideal. For example, I had a very high blood pressure, so we are trying a new drug and last Wednesday I did the horrible 24 hours pressure measuring thing. I hope it worked (I mean, it had correctly readings. I had some bad experiences about that). It was not so bad. Also, hubby and I are recovering from some cold and both of us still have an annoying random coughing.
I've been dictating some classes I don't usually do, so it iwas fun. And this week I have to evaluate some doctorate students (they have a plan, and they around half of it, so we have to evaluate if they are doing well, if we think they are going to finish in time or perhaps they should change some things, we do some suggestions, things like that.

TV and movies: I watched Wednesday, i liked it. This season more than the first one, I believe. I also watched Star Trek: Strange New Worlds, which was a hit of miss with some good episodes and some terrible ones. I also watched two super heroes movies to comment here. Thunderbolts (Marvel) and Superman (DC). Thunderbolts was ok. No pretensions, not big deal. Superman was...pleasant to watch but too many things had no sense, and I was not delighted with some casting (but I am ok with Superman and Lois). Also, there is Krypto!
Last, I watched two more serious/darker shows. The girlfriend, which was very disturbing but interesting and well done and We were liars, which was mesmerizing. I liked it.

And yay!  the book is coming! I heard JB was in a conventions these last days.

Sorry to hear about the blood pressure issues.  I hope the new meds are working.  It's been a few weeks, how is it now?

And yes, I try to sign on once every year or so just to let you all know I'm not dead yet.  I wish the others would do the same, but that's life.

*Notices the lights have been left on in the SHOV and shakes his head*

Electric bills are not going down, and are we still using halogen bulbs?

((((((((((((((((((Don)))))))))))))))))))))))
So happy to see you!

Well, the SHOV is mostly deserted these days, but lights are stil on for the occasional patron. For those who want to visit, like you.
And yes, we have news! New book is coming! I will need to reread TAW in the next weeks. Meanwhile, next week I begin my classes, but tomorrow is a free day, so long weekend. Still, March 24 is a day of remembrance of the last dictatorship and how much it costed our Country. It is not a happy day, but at least I welcome the fact that I do not need to work.

I get to listen to audiobooks while I work, so I have the book and audiobook of TAW.  I enjoyed it more the second time than the first.

I hope your classes are going well..  And days of rememberancve are at least handy reminders of something horrible so that history is less likely to repeat itself.  Although it always seems to anyway :/

Hey, Don!

*** lights some lava lamps***

I think I'll reread TAW some time in summer. Then it is fresh in my mind. 

I've just finished Academ's Fury in my first read through. I had some problems with the first Alera book. It took me a long time to finally finish it and several attempts to get past the first pages. Just didn't hook me that well at the beginning.

Hey RB!

I really enjoyed the first Alera book.  Don't want to put any spoilers here, but I found the way the tension built up in the middle to be fun.

I never read Alera, I did not find the premise interesting.

Game of Thrones Lite 

There's an interview when someone asked Jim if he read the ASOIAF series, and he said that he didn't..  but I think he was fibbing.  Alera was started before GoT came out on HBO, and there are too many parallels for it to be coincidence.  But that's just my opinion.

[quick "I'm still alive" post]

Glad to see you are also alive.  Serious time has passed, and I would guess that not all of us still are.  I think about the old crew a lot and wonder how people are doing.

As it is nice to meet you, Mr. Bogen.

Yeah, PM me.  I'll say hello.

And The Law wasn't what I expected, but I really enjoyed it.  I got it through Audible and listened at work.  Jim Butcher narrates it.  He did a good job, I think. 

I renovate old houses these days.  Not many zoom meeings for a job like that

My laptop sits collecting dust, for the most part.  I use my phone for most things these days.

Anyway, I hope you're doing alright.

Hey!  It's good to see you here.

I did.  I feel like I missed a lot.  I haven't had time to give them the attentive reread I usually like to do with a new Dresden book.  Overall, they were cool.  I'm happy to still be excited about the series.

How's tricks?