I suppose I'm the worst planner in the world. You see, I'm starting a two-week vacation period now... practically speaking, I started it Saturday by being sick. That was to be my last day of work before my time off. (Since I felt like crap all day and missed goign to a show with DCQ and dinner with my friend Eric, I don't consider it "vacation.")
The "worst planner" part is this- I don't have much set for what to do. I'm fairly sure I will be at the Portland fair on Sunday with BrookeLynne, visiting her 'n son over the weekend... but I haven't made out travel plans for the area yet. Where to go in Maine. Boston? Elsewhere? So, if anybody wants to suggest anything, or meet up to do something, let me know. I guess I've been asking Richmonders to do stuff and they're all quite busy; maybe time to check with folks in Baltimore, places north, plus just do searches on Maine/ New England (Boston? maybe).
I had an unexpected meeting with a couple folks today in Alexandria- hello to you both.
Hope you don't get my cold; it's pretty much gone, but the cough.
I've begun reading this book Elect Mr. Robinson for a Better World. I forget where I even heard of it; it's from 1993. It's about a small town where the people are kind of at war with each other, or at least paranoid and... making defensive moats and tigertraps and things. There's a few families in one specific feud-type situation, but also... odd things, like this one character blows up some people with a rocket (why, I'm not entirely sure of yet; it's not told in strict chronological order, and the narrator is pretty evasive) so because the protagonist, Pete Robinson (the narrator), happened to have given a lecture on anthropology of torture, they draw and quarter the rocket killer. There's too many little strange things in the book to summarize, aside from the fact that I'm unclear on where some of it is going. Pete wants to be mayor, and it seems like he has some draw with the people (ex. the vigilante murder "inspired" by him), and he's a teacher who wants to restart a school (apparently they're in some semi-post-apocalyptic near-future where government institutions have no funding)(unless I'm missing something; little is, like I said, explained)... but he seems to have this dark side. Well, the historical-torture-interest thing (he built a model of a torture chamber in his basement), he agrees to scatter some of the killer's body parts ritually.... there's other stuff. I'm halfway done with it, and I'm pretty curious as to where it's going.
I haven't read any fiction in a while. I suppose next I'll read The Last Good Kiss by James Crumley. I semi-enjoyed a book of his, One to Count Cadence, but this book has been hailed as a classic, especially in things I've read lately (ex. just today, in the Washington Post, and in a couple book review mags). They say it's the ultimate modern, hard-boiled noir mystery; guess I'll see.
The "worst planner" part is this- I don't have much set for what to do. I'm fairly sure I will be at the Portland fair on Sunday with BrookeLynne, visiting her 'n son over the weekend... but I haven't made out travel plans for the area yet. Where to go in Maine. Boston? Elsewhere? So, if anybody wants to suggest anything, or meet up to do something, let me know. I guess I've been asking Richmonders to do stuff and they're all quite busy; maybe time to check with folks in Baltimore, places north, plus just do searches on Maine/ New England (Boston? maybe).
I had an unexpected meeting with a couple folks today in Alexandria- hello to you both.
Hope you don't get my cold; it's pretty much gone, but the cough.
I've begun reading this book Elect Mr. Robinson for a Better World. I forget where I even heard of it; it's from 1993. It's about a small town where the people are kind of at war with each other, or at least paranoid and... making defensive moats and tigertraps and things. There's a few families in one specific feud-type situation, but also... odd things, like this one character blows up some people with a rocket (why, I'm not entirely sure of yet; it's not told in strict chronological order, and the narrator is pretty evasive) so because the protagonist, Pete Robinson (the narrator), happened to have given a lecture on anthropology of torture, they draw and quarter the rocket killer. There's too many little strange things in the book to summarize, aside from the fact that I'm unclear on where some of it is going. Pete wants to be mayor, and it seems like he has some draw with the people (ex. the vigilante murder "inspired" by him), and he's a teacher who wants to restart a school (apparently they're in some semi-post-apocalyptic near-future where government institutions have no funding)(unless I'm missing something; little is, like I said, explained)... but he seems to have this dark side. Well, the historical-torture-interest thing (he built a model of a torture chamber in his basement), he agrees to scatter some of the killer's body parts ritually.... there's other stuff. I'm halfway done with it, and I'm pretty curious as to where it's going.
I haven't read any fiction in a while. I suppose next I'll read The Last Good Kiss by James Crumley. I semi-enjoyed a book of his, One to Count Cadence, but this book has been hailed as a classic, especially in things I've read lately (ex. just today, in the Washington Post, and in a couple book review mags). They say it's the ultimate modern, hard-boiled noir mystery; guess I'll see.
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les:
good hiking indeed, but i definitely need to start doing some cardio. my shins were sore for three days.