June 2026

Well, it's been a while since I posted last.  I've been busy doing a lot of not a lot.  I've been working, but that's to be expected.  I have been taking Pilates classes weekly for a while.  My weight loss journey has hit the 65 pound mark.  Today, I'm wearing a shirt that I needed last summer, but it didn't fit.  It does today.  

My Goodreads goal of 150 books in 2026 is nearing the halfway mark.  I joined Summer Stride at the SF library.  I keep forgetting to log, but I'll be at my goal of 20 hours soon.  

I purchased a used car a couple of months ago, and everything except the radio and the transmission are manual.  It's been an adventure trying to get used to the "old" ways again.  I had an alarm and autmatic locks put on the front doors.  The back doors and trunk are still manual, but the alarm is hooked to them.  It need a car wash but I haven't gotten to that yet.  I managed to get the car seat covers on the front seat, but I haven't gotten them on the back seats yet.  Soon, I hope.

I am working on getting the bookclub for this website off the ground.  We have a meeting coming up in two weeks.  I have managed to finish both books that we read.  I hope someone actually shows up for the meeting.  I'm working on two locations, one for silent bookclub and one for traditional bookclub.  

BayCon 2026 is coming up on July 3, 2026.  I am looking forward to it.  The schedule has been posted.  It always amazes me that they have so many panels that I am interested in scheduled at the same time.  

I am reading as a preliminary reader for the Endeavour awards for 2025, and hope to continue for 2026.  I've read two books that I would not have picked up otherwise, so it's been nice.

I am working my way through the Dungeon Crawler Carl books.  I'm on the third book and I hope to finish the series of 8 (so far) books before I meet the author, Matt Dinniman,  next year at Norwescon in Seattle.  This week, I will be joining a Zoom meeting to hear the author speak at the Sunnyvale library.  If you'd like to join, register here.

I am working on two Fredrik Backman books.  One is for contemporary bookclub, My Grandmother Asked Me to Tell You She's Sorry,  and the other, My Friends, is just for fun.  Both are so well written with his tangential sense of humor popping up all over th