Posts Tagged ‘blogging’

Our Half Day Off

Saturday, December 1st, 2007

It’s always nice to be able to go home early on Friday, and now is the time of year when we must use up our vacation. So our stars were aligned, and we left work at noon.

When we got home, we found packages on our doorstep. One of those packages was my new harddrive. And the other was a styrofoam cooler full of steaks (and stuff). Yes, my grandparents had sent us the gift of steak. Our fridge is quite full now (and that is a good thing because it has been snowing this weekend). Thank you!!

And that is not all. After we had unpacked the meat, we got to the dry ice! Dry is sublime (hee hee).

Well, that was fun. And then we started working on installing my new harddrive. This is the reason I am a little backlogged on my blogging.

Actually, I mean Andy installed it. And he had his work cut out for him because Apple ensured that he had to take apart everything that could be unfastened from the computer. But two hours later, the harddrive was in and we were trying to figure out how to do a restore from a Time Machine backup. Again, it was Andy doing all the work. After 10 hours of restoring, it was finally back. Time machine even restored my settings and my background. Thank you, Andy.

Miscelleanous Books I Have Read Lately And A Flood Of Lists To Come

Monday, October 22nd, 2007

On a side note, I haven’t been keeping up on my blogging. Obviously. So for the next few weeks I will be updating with lists of stuff I have done over the past month. Keep your RSS feeds tuned in here.

Shards of Honor by Lois Bujold. It was a space romance. I wouldn’t read it again, but it was pretty good for a space romance.

Over Sea, Under Stone by Susan Cooper. Very kid-oriented, although I understand that the rest of the books in the series are more grown up and that this book contains crucial information needed to continue reading.

Sisterhood Of The Traveling Pants by Ann Brashears. I don’t think I’ve ever read a book that was captured so well by a movie. It was remarkable. Lena had a younger sister that wasn’t in the movie, and that was the only difference I saw.

The Dark Frigate. I didn’t really enjoy this. I don’t like maritime adventures, the book was rather dated, and the accents in this book were really hard to read. And for a child’s book, there were lots of characters to keep track of. This was a book about pirates and it didn’t have any of the following things….yarrr, avast, matey, Davy Jone’s locker.

Candide by Voltaire. This is a comedy, and it must be translated so if you’re an English reader, the text will always be readable. I think Voltaire may have been the Douglas Adams (plus an element of political satire) of his age. The book is outrageous, scatter-brained, and loosely connected. Eh.

The Secret Garden. Gee, the last time I read this all my pre-conceived notions about India were from Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom…how embarrassing for me. It was still good after all these years.

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain. Huckleberry Finn’s pap is psycho-crazy.

The Wonderful Wizard of Oz by L. Frank Baum. There are many things I like about this book. One thing I like is that it takes less than 2 weeks to walk across the county of Oz. Another thing I like is that the Wicked Witch of the West is much less scary. There are no broomsticks, surrender Dorothy’s, or crystal balls in this version. The thing I really like is at the end where it is NOT all a dream.