Episode 654: HQ Attachment Day 4

Slept about seven hours last night, but woke up feeling just a bit more tired than I have for the past couple of days. What gives? Also made it out of the house slightly earlier, so I ended up in the worst of rush hour (human) traffic. Literally crushed from Jurong East to Buona Vista. On the way home though, I seem to have got lucky and missed the human flow by a couple of minutes, as I was on a relatively 'normal' train in the reverse direction. Didn't make it onto the first southbound train that pulled in though. Next one was terminating at Yew Tee, so I did the usual thing of getting off at Bukit Batok and doubling back. Got a seat, read a bit of River Of Gods, and then snoozed all the way home, waking up just in time at Sembawang. Workload starting to grow, so I don't feel like I'm just showing up to browse My Forum anymore! Actually have a pile of stuff to read before Monday, but I'm forcing myself to read it during office hours. No point turning into a workaholic years before it's a necessity! River Of Gods, by the way, is coming to a climactic finish, but I'm definitely not convinced that it's as fantastic as all the blurbs proclaimed. It's good genre fiction, but I don't think it's really doing anything that hasn't been done by other writers before, apart from transplanting the action into a distinctly Oriental setting (which I already pointed out feels like an overly calculated decision). There's already a collection of short stories set in the same fictional universe, Cyberabad Days, and Ian McDonald really does seem to be one of the new Gollancz darlings, so bully for him.