It was a dark and stormy night.

The year-in-review, first-sentence-of-every-month meme.

November: Well, I finally did it.

December: You know, I like Star Trek: Enterprise, I really do.

Gacked from indefatigable42

1. Grab the nearest book.
2. Open the book to page 123.
3. Find the fifth sentence.
4. Post the text of the next 3 sentences:
5. Don’t you dare dig for that “cool” or “intellectual” book in your closet! I know you were thinking about it! Just pick up whatever is closest.

I'm at work, where I keep Niven and Pournelle's The Mote in God's Eye and their The Gripping Hand so I always have something good to read. If I have nothing else to read at lunchtime, I have a macro in Excel that creates a formula that picks a page at random from the range of both books. The Mote in God's Eye is in top at the moment.

Page 123 is just when MacArthur has taken the alien miner aboard and its ship has hared off on its own. The fifth full sentence is:

"Then that thing's on autopilot, would you both agree? But we didn't see him program it."

"We saw him practically rebuild the controls, Captain," Cargill said.

Master of unintentional alliteration

Christmas carols on the car radio make me cry.