I was up just after 4 AM. I had to take Dad to the airport this morning and he wanted to leave at 4:45 AM, so I had to be up a little before that. The roads were empty and I got him to Dulles airport (37 miles away) in about 40 minutes. In fact,…
Every once in a while, I get nostalgic over one of the few things about Southern California that I miss: Sunday mornings in Studio City. Sunday mornings were almost always the same and I looked forward to them with sheer delight. For about nine months out of the year, I’d get up at about 8…
I just discovered LibraryThing and of course, I love it! But I’ve only had time to enter 1 book into my library.
I finished Up From Dragons by John Skoyles and Dorian Sagan, on Wednesday night, but haven’t had time to say a few words about it. It was one of those books that really surprised me. I had started to read it five years ago, but only got through a dozen pages or so before I…
Much to my surprise, I did a little bit of writing tonight. It was not the story that I wanted to be working on but another story that I’ve attempted to start about 8 times and that I haven’t gotten quite right. I’m not sure it’s right this time either, but I’m sticking with it,…
For several years, I have managed my book collection using Booxter for the Macintosh. It has been a great program, but there were also a few limitations that bothered me: (1) a lack of more advanced but common fields (such as awards); (2) no custom fields for tracking information not captured by the system; (3)…
Yesterday, I said I was going to try and finish up Up From Dragons last night. I nearly did but not quite. In fact, I have about 20 pages to go. This turned out to be a lucky break for me. Had I finished the book last night, I would have started reading How the…
I’m calling it an early night tonight. It’s 8 PM and I’m off to bed. My plan is to finish up Up From Dragons this evening so I can start in on the next book tomorrow morning. Maybe I’ll even get a little more sleep tonight than over the past few nights.
After a drought, the summer is flush with reading of all kinds. It’s getting to the point where I almost can’t decide what to read next, not out of disinterest, but because there are so many good things on the way. I should finish up Up From Dragons today, which means I need to start…
I left the house at noon and headed down to Washington Circle to meet A.J. and Denisse. When I got there, A.J. was not yet back from getting his hair cut and Denisse was in the shower, so I waited patiently out front, absorbed by Up From Dragons. A.J. arrive shortly thereafter, and we sat…
I’m through six chapters (about one-third) of Up From Dragons and it is one of the most difficult non-mathematical books I’ve ever come across. By this, I don’t mean that it is not well-written, or even unclear. On the contrary, it is very well-written and quite clear. But I find myself at the limit of…