When I got home from work this evening, I had the November 2006 issue of ANALOG which I have been looking forward to because it contains part 2 of the 4-part serial of Robert J. Sawyer’s new novel Rollback. For those interested, the first dozen or so chapters of the novel is available online at…
I’m retiring early tonight. I was going to stay up and watch the Yankee game, but it’s just after 9 PM here and I’m already beat. It’s a short work week, but a busy one and I’ve spent much of the day cleaning up the house. I’m just plain tuckered out. So, I’ve turned off…
I headed up to Buddy Attick lake in Greenbelt this morning before 10 AM and spent about 2 hours at the lakeside finishing up A Canticle For Leibowitz. What an ending! It was nice out there on the lake, not too hot. I sat out in the sun for a while before moving to the…
Trying to choose from the 38 books I have obtained recently is a difficult task. There are so many I want to read, but I can’t read them all at once, unfortunately. So without planning too far ahead, here is what I plan to read next, once I finish A Canticle for Leibowitz, which I…
24 books Originally uploaded by jamietr. I am back from Wonder Books and I did good! I ended up spending about 2 hours there and I found 24 books that fill various miscellaneous holes in my collection. The photo to the right is the results of my lastest trip. I spent almost the entire time…
…the Wonderful wizard of books. I’m heading out to Frederick and Wonder Books to make a go at my $100 book challenge. I’ll be back later this afternoon with an update on how successful I was. Until then: “…follow, follow, follow, follow, follow the yellow book road…”
I did manage to get started tonight, but it was mostly on configuration and design issues: I upgraded my system to PHP 5.1.4 and MySQL 5.0.24. I also upgraded my installation of MediaWiki to 1.7.x (I use MediaWiki for not only developer notes and design documents, but for just about all household related stuff) Once…
September is here, and so is the rain. It’s been raining and windy all day today, remnants of the tropical storm passing through. BUt I’m not going to allow this rain to interfere with the plans that I have tomorrow–something I have been looking forward to all week: the hundred dollar challenge.. Tomorrow, I am…
Ever since I switched from a PC to a Mac at home, I have been using Booxter to manage my collection of books. Back in the day, I had developed my own, Windows-based, home grown application to manage it, but on the Mac, Booxter seemed the way to go. It served me well for quite…
I started reading A Canticle for Leibowitz today. This marks something like the 6th or 7th book in a row that I have started without finished and they don’t get on my list if I don’t finish them. So hopefully, I will finish this one. So far, so good, but we’ll see.
If a used book store could have met or exceeded my expectations, Wonder Book and Video did just that. It’s about an hour from the house in Frederick, MD and there was some traffic getting there, but it was worth it. It easily rivals The Iliad Bookshop as one of the best used bookstores I’ve…
“Graveyard Shift” is in the mail. It was the single most expensive story I have ever sent out, mainly because it was so long. It weighted just over 20 ounces and cost something over $4 to send off. But it’s on it’s way! I got a haircut this morning, and then headed up to Attick…