A Few Notes

Last night before I went to sleep, I made a couple of notes about what I wanted to mention/do/talk about in this blog before I forgot. One is to do simple reviews of the books I have recently finished. This occured to me after finishing one book that has taken me too long to read for this particular author. She is one of my favorites but I found that I actually had to slow down and read this book. So here is my first review:

The Hidden City: House Wars by Michelle West

This book is in the same world as the Sun Sword series and the Hunter's duology but starts to give the background for Jewel aTerafin (who is Jewel Markess) in this book. Jewel is one of my favorite background characters and it really starts to come together some of the bits and pieces of her that you find in the Sun Sword series. I give it two thumbs up and hope you enjoy reading it as much as I do.

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One of the other things I wanted to do was to rant about something that has been bothering me for a bit. I am usually a hermit. My partner managed to get me out to join a group of ladies who meet in the West Seattle area at a local coffee house on Thursday evenings. I went and had a good time and continued to attend. After a couple of months I started noticing some social distancing by some of the other ladies. Then a couple of weeks ago I was approached by the nominal leader of the group asking that I moderate my conversation style a bit because some of the group were uncomfortable with it. Now a little background is needed... I was raised to say what I was thinking in the most succint and clear manner as possible and that short of use curse words anything pretty much went. There were times when this was not appropriate and I learned to do polite conversation at school, work, Masonic events and at family events with more than just the immediate family attending. I firmly believe that I should not have to moderate my conversation when I am out with friends outside my work enviroment. Perhaps that is just me but the way in which this was handled was poorly done and as a result, I no longer see those ladies at all. I decided that going back to being a hermit was better than having to deal with more social distancing and akwardness that would come from me having to use "work etiquette" with my friends.

I feel much better having laid that out. Now I know that there will be some that say that there are things that are not appropriate to discuss regardless of the group or time but not for me and my family. Sorry.

That is all for today.