There are many things to which I am grateful to my parents, but at the top of the list has to be their encouragement in reading. My parents read to me beginning at a young age. They did so fairly regularly, it seems to me.
I’m looking forward to getting into bed, reading more of In Memory Yet Green and perhaps watching an episode or two of the Magnum, P.I. DVDs that strausmouse and rmstraus got me for my birthday. And I’m looking forward to being able to sleep in a bit tomorrow. Regular readers may have noticed I haven’t…
I headed home at 4 PM as usual and started In Memory Yet Green on the train, which is a pleasure as always. I love starting the these two volumes of Asimov’s autobiography because they total some 1500 pages and 650,000 words and I enjoy them immensely. I am always wistfully sad when I finish.…
I was supposed to go to the gym at lunch today for my chest and back workout but I skipped, lured by the beautiful spring weather we are having today. Instead, I headed over to Pentagon Row, found a chair which I pulled into the sunlight, propped up my fit, tipped back the chair and…
I just finished watching the first inning of the Mets/Cardinals game, which is the first official baseball game of the 2007 baseball season. My TiVo is set to record the opening day Yankees game tomorrow so I can skim through it when I get home from work. I celebrated some good news this evening by…
I have new books on the way! I ordered three books yesterday and all should be on their way to my door within the next week or so. First, I ordered Barry Malzberg’s new collection of critical essays, Breakfast In the Ruins which I will probably be the next thing that I read after finished…
For the first time in a while, I can shut my door at lunch, lean back in my chair, put my feet up and read for the entire hour! More than likely I will end up dozing off as well, but it will be nice just to have an hour to relax.
After a couple of weeks of phone tag, I finally talked to Michelle last night and it was good to hear from her. We were on the phone for almost an hour catching up, which explains, in part, why I didn’t get to bed until after 10 PM. I didn’t have to get up until…
During a quick lunch break this afternoon, I browsed the web, as usual, checking the headlines, markets, baseball news, science fiction news, etc. I ran into three things while browsing that were unusual enough to get me thinking, so I figured I’d write about them here and see what you all think. Do web ads…
I took the first of my spring walks this evening. It was great. I got good weather on my birthday. It was just about as warm as it was in Orlando, Florida this past weekend. The temperature when I headed out the door was a balmy 81 degrees. Sometimes, I read when I walk. I…
It is official. I have officially reached “mid-life” today. According to Psalm 90:10: “The days of our years are threescore years and ten…” That’s 70 years old for those of you who don’t count in scores. And the midway point of three score years and ten is 35 years of age, which is what I…
Yesterday, while sitting in the waiting room of my doctor’s office, I finally got around to starting a new book, the first book I’ve started in more than a month! I’m reading The Secret Life of Harry Houdini: The Making of America’s First Super Hero and so far, it’s terrific and I’m really enjoying it.…