I just finished reading Flowers for Algernon and what an ending! I mean, I knew how the book ended because I read it once in eight grade. But books didn’t affect me then the way they do now. On the train into work, I had to fight back some of the emotions. I don’t mind…
I woke up this morning wondering how I could get out of my workout today and for a while, I thought I was going to call Bernard or run into the gym to see if I could find him in the morning and reschedule my workout. But I stuck with it, knowing that I’m at…
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…
About twice a year I end up ramming my knee into my desk at work, catching it right in the soft spot just underneath the kneecap. I just did it and it hurts like @#$#%$#!!!
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…
It was 29 years ago today that my brother, Gregory, died in the hospital. He was 11 days old. He had been born prematurely and in 1977, this was a much more serious condition than it is today–it goes to show you how far medicine and technology has come in three decades. I remember that…
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…
I headed downtown around 1 PM and was out on the Mall by 1:30 PM. It was warmer than I expected out and I had worn jeans instead of shorts, but I survived. I found a bench and sat for an hour reading more of A Canticle for Leibowitz, which I expect to finish tonight…
I am heading over to the Museum of American History this afternoon to meet AJ and Dennise there for one last look before the museum closes for renovations for two years. This was my favorite of all of the Smithsonian museums (even more so than the Air and Space museum). However, I have now been…