Polar vortex

It got very cold today, although how much of that was due to the so-called polar vortex I really couldn’t say. All I know is, it never got warmer than ten degrees today.

But at least our little bug problem at the office seems to have been taken care of.

Meanwhile, I finished reading the young adult novel All the Lovely Bad Ones by Mary Downing Hahn. It was a Christmas present, not one I would have chosen for myself, but…well, here’s what I wrote over on Goodreads:

If I had discovered the book, or one like it, some thirty years ago, when I was squarely in its young-reader audience, I think I might have liked it better. And yet it’s not exactly exciting or engaging by those standards, nor especially scary, at least not once it becomes apparent that it’s going to follow a very predictable route. It’s a quick read, however, and while there’s little to no character development, the characters themselves are likable enough.

And that was Tuesday.