Over the past few months I've worked my way through The Dresden Files by Jim Butcher and it's been pleasant. Over the past 20 years Butcher has created a well rounded Dresden-verse focusing on the life and times of Harry Dresden, professional wizard and private investigator based in Chicago. The books have spawned a short lived TV series, lots of comics and a few role playing games. A great franchise.
The books seem to work a bit like a role playing game with Dresden developing from book to book, levelling up and encountering new challenges that push him further and further. In later books there is some focus on the various attempts that are made to corrupt Dresden by supernatural entities.
In difficult times Harry Dresden is a great distraction. There are two more books being published later this year and I'm looking forward to reading them.
I had initially intended to be more enthusiastic in this post as I genuinely loved the books - just read them.
Saturday, May 16, 2020
Life under lockdown
Because of my job I still have to go to work every day. I use public transport and for a while it was frightening. It's probably a bit less frightening now as I've become numb to it, to a certain extent but there is still dread. It's important not to become complacent. This virus is bad and it can fuck you right up.
One person that I knew, our old neighbour, has died. She was a great lady and it's sad. Other than that a couple of my patients have been seriously unwell with it. The virus has a multi-system effect, messing up coagulation, causing blood clots everywhere as well as a cytokine storm type effect as well as the lung problems. It can fuck you up bad.
I've read a lot of dystopian fiction and we aren't quite there yet but we have witnessed a failure of Johnson-led UK Tory government. The current projection is ov 50,000 excess deaths. Many of these are in the elderly and disabled which will give the austerity driven Tory party their jollies. The virus is ripping through care homes, killing old people.. The pseudo-clown our English compatriots elected as Prime Minister was ignoble enough to catch the virus himself after shaking hands with everyone on a COVID ward. What a fuck nugget.
The reason for his short stay in iTU has been a source of much speculation but Johnson has lost weight and he doesn't have the fortitude for method acting so I suspect the fucker was actually sick. However, in the face of 50 thousand deaths that were potentially avoidable my sympathy for this devil is limited.
There is little that I can write that has not already been written about this shit show. Brexit will proceed like a runaway locomotive and the UK will hit a wall and pretty soon we will be the 53rd state of the USA. Eating chlorinated chicken, steroid filled steak and paying through the nose for health insurance while the disaster capitalists in the Tory party are laughing all the way to their offshore banks.
Newspapers saying that teachers should be heroes. Why should a teacher risk death to teach maths to a bunch of disinterested secondary school kids? Why should a care worker die due to a lack of PPE?
Alexander Boris Johnson fiddles with himself while the UK drowns in its own stupidity.
One person that I knew, our old neighbour, has died. She was a great lady and it's sad. Other than that a couple of my patients have been seriously unwell with it. The virus has a multi-system effect, messing up coagulation, causing blood clots everywhere as well as a cytokine storm type effect as well as the lung problems. It can fuck you up bad.
I've read a lot of dystopian fiction and we aren't quite there yet but we have witnessed a failure of Johnson-led UK Tory government. The current projection is ov 50,000 excess deaths. Many of these are in the elderly and disabled which will give the austerity driven Tory party their jollies. The virus is ripping through care homes, killing old people.. The pseudo-clown our English compatriots elected as Prime Minister was ignoble enough to catch the virus himself after shaking hands with everyone on a COVID ward. What a fuck nugget.
The reason for his short stay in iTU has been a source of much speculation but Johnson has lost weight and he doesn't have the fortitude for method acting so I suspect the fucker was actually sick. However, in the face of 50 thousand deaths that were potentially avoidable my sympathy for this devil is limited.
There is little that I can write that has not already been written about this shit show. Brexit will proceed like a runaway locomotive and the UK will hit a wall and pretty soon we will be the 53rd state of the USA. Eating chlorinated chicken, steroid filled steak and paying through the nose for health insurance while the disaster capitalists in the Tory party are laughing all the way to their offshore banks.
Newspapers saying that teachers should be heroes. Why should a teacher risk death to teach maths to a bunch of disinterested secondary school kids? Why should a care worker die due to a lack of PPE?
Alexander Boris Johnson fiddles with himself while the UK drowns in its own stupidity.
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