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Break Week
Mar. 6th, 2010 09:45 amOne year ago today, one of my colleagues drove me over to the Madison County Animal Shelter, and I returned with Buster and Gracie. I don't have anything to say about that that I haven't said already, but the anniversary definitely deserves celebration chez Stoutfellow.
Not coincidentally, break week has begun; I'm off until the 15th. I don't plan anything particularly exciting for the week. Work on my financial records, including doing my taxes; a couple of trips to the vet - B&G are due for their annual checkups and shots; some shopping for clothes, and maybe a papoose for Gracie, to make taking her to the vet easier. A few games of Civ IV, some work with A/V (transferring LPs to .mp3s and videotapes to DVDs), maybe some more substantial posts (back to the Ramble, and some overdue book reviews), some reading....
Reading. My most recent reading has included Graham Greene's The Human Factor (probably a reread, but I didn't remember anything, even as I was reading); A. K. Dewdney's The Planiverse (an updated version of Flatland, looked at from a scientist's viewpoint); Dick Francis' For Kicks; and Gordon Dickson's The Final Encyclopedia (again a probable reread). (Earlier in the year, I read Salman Rushdie's The Enchantress of Florence, which makes a passing mention of John Hawkwood; the latter figure's importance in Dickson's Childe Cycle led me to that last book.) I'm also currently reading the first volume of Robert Caro's biography of LBJ; Caro is a very fine storyteller, and I'm enjoying the book quite a bit.
I paid a visit to Border's about a week ago. I bought nothing but fiction, and mostly light fiction at that: Peter Hamilton's Judas Unchained (the sequel to Pandora's Star); Robin Hobb's Assassin's Apprentice; David Weber's Ashes of Victory (which I'm also currently reading); For Kicks; Jack McDevitt's Engines of God (I keep hearing his work praised, so I thought I'd give him a try); Rushdie's The Satanic Verses; R. M. Meluch's Strength and Honor (another in the Merrimack series); Eric Flint's Time Spike (same universe/multiverse as 1632, very different milieu); C. S. Friedman's Wings of Wrath (another sequel); Pat Frank's classic Alas Babylon (which I read many years ago; it belongs to a different world now, of course); and Greg Bear's City at the End of Time (I'm giving him one more chance to wash out the taste of his last few stinkers).
I'll have enough to do to keep busy, me.
Not coincidentally, break week has begun; I'm off until the 15th. I don't plan anything particularly exciting for the week. Work on my financial records, including doing my taxes; a couple of trips to the vet - B&G are due for their annual checkups and shots; some shopping for clothes, and maybe a papoose for Gracie, to make taking her to the vet easier. A few games of Civ IV, some work with A/V (transferring LPs to .mp3s and videotapes to DVDs), maybe some more substantial posts (back to the Ramble, and some overdue book reviews), some reading....
Reading. My most recent reading has included Graham Greene's The Human Factor (probably a reread, but I didn't remember anything, even as I was reading); A. K. Dewdney's The Planiverse (an updated version of Flatland, looked at from a scientist's viewpoint); Dick Francis' For Kicks; and Gordon Dickson's The Final Encyclopedia (again a probable reread). (Earlier in the year, I read Salman Rushdie's The Enchantress of Florence, which makes a passing mention of John Hawkwood; the latter figure's importance in Dickson's Childe Cycle led me to that last book.) I'm also currently reading the first volume of Robert Caro's biography of LBJ; Caro is a very fine storyteller, and I'm enjoying the book quite a bit.
I paid a visit to Border's about a week ago. I bought nothing but fiction, and mostly light fiction at that: Peter Hamilton's Judas Unchained (the sequel to Pandora's Star); Robin Hobb's Assassin's Apprentice; David Weber's Ashes of Victory (which I'm also currently reading); For Kicks; Jack McDevitt's Engines of God (I keep hearing his work praised, so I thought I'd give him a try); Rushdie's The Satanic Verses; R. M. Meluch's Strength and Honor (another in the Merrimack series); Eric Flint's Time Spike (same universe/multiverse as 1632, very different milieu); C. S. Friedman's Wings of Wrath (another sequel); Pat Frank's classic Alas Babylon (which I read many years ago; it belongs to a different world now, of course); and Greg Bear's City at the End of Time (I'm giving him one more chance to wash out the taste of his last few stinkers).
I'll have enough to do to keep busy, me.
