Oh, and one more thing

 I’m no longer on Twitter. 

Well, technically I still am, I mean, there’s an account and all. Well, a second account since I was apparently inappropriate there also and they wouldn’t let me back on without giving them my phone number, which I refused to do. So I made a second account under the handle of “Off-brand Dave”. But I haven’t posted there in a very long time, and I haven’t even looked at the app in almost as much time. Because, you know, fuck Elon and the godawful Cybertruck he rode in on. 

Anyway, you can find me twittering away my time on Bluesky these days. 

What? Why?

 It’s been years since I’ve posted anything on this blog*. It’s been years since I even looked at the dashboard. So imagine my surprise to find out when I finally do look, that I’ve been given some sort of notice of misbehavior. Does anything detail what the misbehavior was? No. Does anything say which specific post or posts are problematic? Also no. Can I therefore do anything to correct my supposedly errant behavior, should I choose to do so? Guess not. 

Oh well. 

Anyway, I’m thinking of taking up blogging again. I kind of miss it.

* that doesn’t include book lists, of which any supposedly posted between 2018 and this post, have been loaded and retro-dated sometime after this post here. 

Ha ha! Not dead!

Hey, it occurs to me to mention that I'm still around, it's just that I'm now doing my ranting in smaller bites (bytes?) on Twitter these days. Just search for Daveawayfromhome, as expected.

If you want to blame someone for my abandonment of Blogger, you can blame A) my wife, for giving me an IPad, and B) Blogger itself for making an interface that just does not work with said IPad.

Anyway, rest assured I'm still as opinionated as ever, I'm just opining elsewhere.

suede bag monkey breakfast!

If this is showing, it means I'm done with the blog. Possibly because I'm dead. Hard to say in advance.

At any rate, here's the line that this blog has, perhaps, been screaming out for all along:

"Dave's not here, man."



Unless I just wasnt paying attention.



Update: Turns out, it was a combination of not paying attention and utter indifference!

2017 Booklist

This year's list contains a lot of e-books

Aguirre, Ann - Wanderlust

Anderle, Michael - The Kurtherian Gambit (vol 1-20)

Anderle, Michael - The Kurtherian Gambit: Reclaiming Honor (vol 1-7)

Anderle, Michael - The Second Dark Ages (vol 1-3)

Ashe, Jillian - My Delicate Destruction - The Wolfegang Series

Berg, Alex P - Red Hot Steele

Boyce, S.M. + Carr, Martha + Anderle, Michael - The Fairhaven Chronicles (vol 1-3)

Brasher, Darius - Caped; The Omega Superhero Books (vol 1)

Buroker, Lindsey - Sky Full of Stars (vol 1-3)

Caine, Rachel - Terminated

Caine, Rachel - Two Weeks Notice

Caine, Rachel - Working Stiff

Carr, Martha + Anderle, Michael - The Leira Chronicles (vol -5)

Clarke, Ell Leigh + Anderle, Michael - The Age of Expansion (vol 1-7)

Clarke, Ell Leigh + Anderle, Michael - Confessions of a Space Anthropologist (vol 1)

Cooper, M.D. - The Intrepid Series (vol 1-3)

DiPietro, Zen - Dragonfire Station (vol 1)

Ellis, Timothy - The Hunter Legacy (vol 1)

Gockel, C - I Bring The Fire (all vols)

Gualtieri, Rick - The Tome of Bill (vol 1-8)

Hodgell, P. C. - The Gates of Tagmeth

Hodgell, P. C. - The Sea of Time

Knorr, A.L. + Carr, Martha + Anderle, Michael - The Kacy Chronicles (vol 1-2)

Martelle, Craig + Anderle, Michael - The Bad Company (vol 1)

Martelle, Craig + Sloan, Justin + Anderle, Michael - Gateway to the Universe: In Bad Company

Martelle, Craig + Anderle, Michael - The Terry Henry Martin Chronicles (vol 1-10)

Maxwell, Flint + Carr, Martha + Anderle, Michael - The Midwest Magic Chronicles (vol 1)

Noffke, Sarah + Chaney, J.N. + Anderle, Michael - The Ghost Squadron (vol 1-2)

O'Malley, Daniel - The Rook

O'Malley, Daniel - Stiletto

Paul, T. S. - The Athena Lee Chronicles (vol 1)

Paul, T. S. - The Federal Witch (vol 1-6)

Paul, T. S. + Anderle, Michael - Etheric Academy (vol 1-2)

Raymond, C. M. + Barbant, L.E. + Anderle, Michael - The Rise of Magic (vol 1-2)

Russell, S.R. + Anderle, Michael - Etheric Recruit

Russell, S.R. + Anderle, Michael - Etheric Researcher

Silvers, Shayne - Nate Temple series (vol 1-2)

Stewart, Glynn - Castle Federation series (vol 1-2)

Swan, Chogan - 1799 Planetfall: Symbiont Wars (vol 1)

Previous Lists:
2016, 2015, 2014, 2013, 2012, 2011, 2010, 2009, 2008, 2007, 2006, 2005, 2004.

celebrate

Dave's 2016 Book List

Not a lot of books on the list this year, as I spent most of my free time reading manga instead.

Betrayer of Worlds - Niven, Larry + Lerner, Edward M.
Biblia Koshodou no Jiken Techou: Volume 1 - Mimaki En
Destroyer of Worlds - Niven, Larry + Lerner, Edward M.
A Dirty Job - Christopher Moore
Don't Look Down - Jennifer Crusie + Bob Meyer
The Eye of Zoltar - Jasper Fforde [e-book]
Fate of Worlds - Niven, Larry + Lerner, Edward M.
Fire Me Up - MacAlister, Katie [e-book]
Fleet of Worlds - Niven, Larry + Lerner, Edward M.
Girl Against The Universe - Paula Stokes
Hikaru ga Chikyuu ni Itakoro - Nomura Mizuki
Holy Smokes - MacAlister, Katie [e-book]
Imprudence - Carriger, Gail
The "Jaran" series (4 books) - Kate Elliot
Juggler of Worlds - Niven, Larry + Lerner, Edward M.
The Last Dragonslayer - Jasper Fforde [e-book]
Lock, Stock, and Over a Barrel - Carson, Melody
The Long Utopia - Pratchett, Terry + Baxter, Stephen
Love In The Time of Dragons - MacAlister, Katie
Manners & Mutiny - Gail Carriger
Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen [e-book]
Scarlett Epstein Hates It Here - Breslaw, Anna
Secondhand Souls - Christopher Moore
Song of the Quarkbeast - Jasper Fforde [e-book]
Soon I Will Be Invincible - Grossman, Austin
Winter (The Lunar Chronicles) - Marissa Meyer [e-book]
You Slay Me - MacAlister, Katie [e-book]




Previous Lists:
2015, 2014, 2013, 2012, 2011, 2010, 2009, 2008, 2007, 2006, 2005, 2004.

thank God

About time that's done with.

quote for the day - election style

the election, summed up in four panels