Wow, this year is flying by. Already April is here! Today seemed more like an April day than a March day, what with the rain showers we had. It’s also opening day of the baseball season, and naturally, the Yankees/Blue Jays game was rained out. They’ll play tomorrow instead. I don’t feel quite as enthusiastic…
I read through the revised manuscript of “The Golden Watch” today, making minor changes here and there, and this evening began the process of integrating my changes into the master document. I spent about 2 hours on it and I’ve gotten halfway through. I’ll finish up the other half tomorrow. Then I’ll need to do…
For the last 13 years, April is “Isaac Asimov” month for me. Each April, I re-read all three of Asimov’s autobiographies, beginning with his retrospective memoir, I. Asimov, and following that up with his 640,000 word, 2-volume autobiography from 1979-80, In Memory Yet Green and In Joy Still Felt. Having just finished up Factoring Humanity,…
I finished Factoring Humanity by Robert J. Sawyer, last night around 10 PM. It’s the 386th book on my list. Like most of Rob’s books have been for me, I could hardly put this one down. I started it on Sunday and got through perhaps the first 90 pages or so. Yesterday, although I worked…
At lunch today I made it past the halfway mark on Factoring Humanity and it was all I could do to tear myself away from the book and get back to work. (I don’t even recall eating the two PB&J sandwiches I packed, but they were gone, so I must have eaten them.) I have…
People relate things together in interesting ways. Probably one of the most common examples of this is music. So often, if you hear a song, you are instantly transported, in your mind, to a special or significant time when you heard that song. It’s a quirk of memory and sensation, I suppose. This is true…
Today was a lazy day and it was great. We slept in until around 9 AM, then headed to a relatively empty grocery store to do some grocery shopping. Came back home, at breakfast and then lazed around for hours while doing laundry and watching TV. About mid-afternoon, we headed out to get some air,…
Kelly and I went to Harry’s Tap Room for dinner last night, and it was a particularly good meal. I had this spicy, tequila shrimp dish which was very tasty. Our server warned me that this was a spicy dish, but I was looking for something spicy–turns out “spicy” is a relative term. I’d call…
It rained quite a bit yesterday and neither Kelly nor I felt much like going our for food after work. We’d already planned to make Rice Krispy Treats, but we also decided to make dinner too. We kept it simple this time: whole wheat pasta, pasta sauce, and sliced up carrots. After that we made…
Oh boy! I started reading Robert Silverberg’s Up the Line yesterday. While I’m only about 35 pages into the book, so far, I love it. I’ve only read 2 other books by Silverberg, Dying Inside, which is on my list of all-time favorites; and The World Inside, which I enjoyed enough to rate 4 stars…
Back to work and it was a busy day today, catching up with the two days that I missed last week. Lots to catch up on. My day was packed and, in fact, I had a meeting (from home) this evening from 6-7 PM. I found out that Magnum, P.I., Season 8 was released recently…