a WordPress phenomenon and some unrelated spoilers

[mmegaera]

Something really odd has begun happening since I started posting my trip blog posts on my WordPress blog (this is the first real posting I've done on it since I moved over from Blogger a while back).

Every time I post I get a few more email notifications that complete strangers (so far as I can tell) are following me. Some even comment. Now don't laugh, I know that's the purpose of the blog, and I'm certainly not complaining [g], but that never happened over on Blogger in the several years I was there.

Is WordPress just that much better at getting people to notice other folks' blogs, or is it something new I'm doing that I just don't realize I'm doing? (the latter is highly unlikely)

Anyway, I think it's cool.

Completely unrelated spoiler warning ahead...

I finished the eARC of Captain Vorpatril's Alliance last night in one fell gulp (started about 5:30, finished about 1:30). I like this one much better than CryoBurn, not least because it's a whole book, with a fantastic ending. Oh, Ivan, she flung every single last one of your worst things at you, including your claustrophobia, and you ended up happy in spite of (or perhaps because of) it all! Your wife's a sweetie, too. In spite (or perhaps because) of her family. Ye godlings [g].

Longer post ahead when I've caught my breath from laughing. Which wasn't just from all the in-jokes, legion though they were. Lois was channeling Preston Sturges, I swear. Or maybe Frank Capra.

Comments

[archangelbeth]

I was getting such a fun vibe of "and here's the season wrap-up with the reminiscing about the entire past season!" Only without stock footage, and generally with enough of a skew of "what it looks from outside" that I was chortling so much...

It really is a good "capper" to the series, I think.

[azurelunatic]

Gordon Korman, I thought. I was finishing it up at the weekly work booze-up (and lunch before that), and my co-workers kept looking at me weird because of the howls of laughter.

[mmegaera]

I don't know him, but perhaps I should [g].

[mmegaera]

Yes. This was a much better ending to the series than CryoBurn. Too bad it comes before it in the chronology.

[archangelbeth]

Always a good reason to say, "Feh!" to internal chronology, and read things in the order they were written! >_>

[mmegaera]

But, but, but, my anal retentive side will have fits!

I suspect I may just have to sit on my AR side in this case, though [g].

[archangelbeth]

Well, arguably, reading in Order Written is chronological -- as per how it was pulled out of the author's head... >_>

See? You can feed spurious logic to the ARS!

[mmegaera]

But, but, but...

If I read one part in order written, don't I have to read it all that way???

[archangelbeth]

Nah! Or you can read it one way one time, and the other way the other time, or in totally random order! (Though that works best when you've read it once already...)

[mmegaera]

You, ma'am, are obviously not AR [g].

[archangelbeth]

Well, not about some things... Don't get between me and my Oxford Comma, though!