I took another run at the fourth Recluce book by L.E. Modesitt,
The Order War, and was better able to get into it this time. It has issues--minor continuity issues within scenes, a surplus of named characters with not much to them besides name and faction allegiance--but still a good fantasy read. All of Modesitt's work I've read drifts into an almost curmudgeonly pedantry, but he manages to undercut it enough that it's palatable. It probably doesn't hurt that I've been an aspiring curmudgeon from an early age
Kirby Heybourne remains a solid reader for the series.
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Originally Posted by WT Sharpe
The good news here is that I've discovered that I CAN listen to the Kindle app on my phone while walking and counting my steps with my pedometer app as long as I first close all other apps and restart the device before my walk. A bit of a hassle, but then again my phone isn't one of those costing 600-plus dollars.
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I gave my 3-yr-old, fair-to-middling-when-it-was-new phone a cleaning last night, and it improved things a fair bit. I found
this guide helpful--mainly the bit about looking through your running apps and uninstalling anything you don't need. A lot of times apps that run in the background are slowing you down or causing other apps to crash. Facebook is a big resource hog, and you get more functionality just requesting the desktop site in a browser, anyway. It doesn't sound like you have root, but if you do (and you're running a pre-Kit-Kat version of Android) the Lagfix app is also a big help. I also grabbed a more minimalist home/app launcher, Smart Launcher 2, which I'm finding quite nice so far.
The makeover was my alternative to clicking "buy now" on a newer used phone on Swappa. A new phone should be pretty far down my list of spending/saving priorities, but it's an ongoing battle
