The Red Queen’s Race

I got three amendments this week, and dealt with one of them, so I now have three amendments on my Amended docket. I’ve done some work on one of the other new amendments, and I left a message for an attorney about the aging amendment, asking if he has any idea when he can expect to hear back from his client about a proposed Examiner’s Amendment, and finally get back to me.

I also finished a first action rejection on my oldest Regular New case.

Orphans of Raspay

I have a new Kindle, since there were problems with the old one, and I have downloaded and read “The Orphans of Raspay,” the latest of Lois McMaster Bujold’s Penric and Desdemona stories. It is well done, as one would expect, although perhaps not the author’s absolute best. Penric is captured by pirates, who, as he is a sorcerer partnered with a chaos demon, come to regret it. Being the nice guy he is, he doesn’t merely try to escape, and to unleash chaos on the pirates, but to rescue others as well, including the orphans of the title.

The novella has much less squick than a story of people being held prisoner by pirates might have had.