Short Post

I’ve decided that I’ll be reading 12 books of Readings Past and not a whole year of them. I think that would be a bit much. So, probably 24 new books to 12 old. That feels about right. Might read some Shakespearean plays next year. I love Shakespeare very much.
Books I’ve read:
38. Last Watch by [...]

Plans for Next Year

I haven’t said here, but I’ve been taking driving lessons in order to drive in the UK. I drove in America for a decade or so, but over here they have a few challenges to passing the test. There’s roundabouts and they drive on the non-right side of the road. Also, the test is a [...]

Back from America

We got back from America on Sunday morning and exhaustion was the order of the day for everyone in the household. I’d slept in the car on the way down, but slept on the couch for another hour or so in the afternoon. Then, we went to bed fairly early after watching a couple of [...]

Good News

My mother called just today and she was able to sort out the horrible snafu with airline tickets. Apparently, American Airlines had changed our tickets so that we’d have had to spend seven and one half hours in O’Hare airport with a sleep-deprived five year old! Not acceptable! So, they had an earlier flight that [...]

America Trip

I’m really looking forward to our trip to America this year. Well, it’s my second trip to America, but the first one wasn’t under pleasant circumstances as my father had taken very ill with complications from his bowel surgery. I flew out for a couple of weeks to look after him and my mother.
It’s looking [...]

Back From Butlins

Got back from Butlins on Friday. I am still tired even now and to top it all off, I think I’m coming down with a cold. That’d be fantastic as I have so much to do this next week. So, I’ll be walking in to work 2 miles each way with a cold and snotting [...]

Bat, Man

Well, I haven’t posted here in a while, but this time I had a good reason. My Dad had complications with his bowel surgery and his kidney and liver shut down. I traveled out to America for my Mom and to see first hand how things were going. Everything went very well and as of [...]

Ping Pong Passion

So at work we expanded into a new building and one of the rooms in the old building was turned into a game room with Table Football, Dart board, Pool Table, and Table Tennis table. The table tennis table was new. We’d had the other things in one room or another, but we’d never had [...]

Swimming

I promised a non-book-related post and here it is…
G loves swimming. This is no accident. I prepared him for swimming in the bath. Not that I made him do laps as an infant, but I made sure he was comfortable with water on his face and not scared of it. When he was a bit [...]

Books, but…

I will be posting about something more than books tomorrow. Something memorable.
But for today. It’s books!
19. Shadow Of The Torturer by Gene Wolfe – I’ve read this before, but I didn’t remember much of it. It was a good read, but not as good as I don’t remember.
20. Claw Of The Conciliator – Decent, but [...]