In Transit, Detroit, MI
Well, I've arrived safely in Detroit. It's a balmy 19 degrees outside right now (apparently I missed the worst of the cold), with a wind chill making it feel like 8 degrees. It isn't as bad as it sounds, at least in the middle of the day. It's surprisingly dry right now, and clear; sunlight mitigates more of the cold than you'd think.
What that really means is that you don't notice how cold you really are until you come inside.
There's not much snow on the ground. When I say it's windy, I mean that they've got gusts of up to 20 miles per hour; that has slowed down, too. Given the way the snow is distributed on the hills--snow on one side but not on the other--I guess things just weren't still enough to have thick accumulation.
Finding the hotel is much easier with Google Maps, and with the benefit of daylight. The last time I stayed in this hotel was in November of 2004, and finding the damn place drove me into screaming fits. The roads aren't bad right now; they really know how to keep them clear here. And it's surprising how much of the general layout of the area I remember, even after a couple of years.
Driving a Kia Spectra and being charged way too much for it; still, not a bad little car.
Recommended reading, while I'm thinking about it: the Outremer series by Chaz Brenchley. It's a fantasy series based on the real-life Crusader kingdoms of the 11th-13th centuries. Brenchley is a British writer, most well-known for his horror and mystery writing, which informs his fantasy style a great deal as well. It's super good stuff, very low on genre cliches (which is a nice change). It was released in the UK in three novels: Tower of the King's Daughter, Feast of the King's Shadow, and Hand of the King's Evil. In the US, each of these books was divided in to two volumes, for no reason I can fathom other than to sell more books.
It's time to go get some lunch; I'll write more after the game tonight. Go Wings!
What that really means is that you don't notice how cold you really are until you come inside.
There's not much snow on the ground. When I say it's windy, I mean that they've got gusts of up to 20 miles per hour; that has slowed down, too. Given the way the snow is distributed on the hills--snow on one side but not on the other--I guess things just weren't still enough to have thick accumulation.
Finding the hotel is much easier with Google Maps, and with the benefit of daylight. The last time I stayed in this hotel was in November of 2004, and finding the damn place drove me into screaming fits. The roads aren't bad right now; they really know how to keep them clear here. And it's surprising how much of the general layout of the area I remember, even after a couple of years.
Driving a Kia Spectra and being charged way too much for it; still, not a bad little car.
Recommended reading, while I'm thinking about it: the Outremer series by Chaz Brenchley. It's a fantasy series based on the real-life Crusader kingdoms of the 11th-13th centuries. Brenchley is a British writer, most well-known for his horror and mystery writing, which informs his fantasy style a great deal as well. It's super good stuff, very low on genre cliches (which is a nice change). It was released in the UK in three novels: Tower of the King's Daughter, Feast of the King's Shadow, and Hand of the King's Evil. In the US, each of these books was divided in to two volumes, for no reason I can fathom other than to sell more books.
It's time to go get some lunch; I'll write more after the game tonight. Go Wings!
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