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Aug. 21st, 2007 07:18 pmNow that 2007 is getting close to the two-thirds mark, it might be a good time to review all my posts, library overdue notices, whathaveyouse, and check on the ol' Books Read progress. I just finished one of the goofball scifi paperbacks that ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
thunderemerald was kind enough to pass on, the eponymous first book in the Hal Spacejock series.
It's pretty much what you'd expect from the title and the genre- granted, it would have been shelved as a calculus book if it had many more deriviatives (2001, Star Wars, HHGTG and Firefly, most obviously), but its pages turned promptly and with more than a few belly laughs, so I'm happy for, and will be passing on, the literary Lindsaylove.
Next up is something rather different: Atul Gawande is an author, practicing physician and (damn him!) a current Macarthur Genius Grant recipient, and his New Yorker articles on Thingsus Medicus simply sing when you read them. Several of them, along with some other pieces, have been collected into a book of his titled simply Better, which, from its studies of such medical mundaneries as childbirth and medical handwashing, can clearly make just about anything interesting by making it well-written.
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Another day, another wall. Well, half a wall in the garage, half-painted. I took off from the dayjob a bit early today after hearing that our late August coolness was entirely temporary (it's supposed to be upper 80s/mid 20s C and humid again by week's end), so I took advantage and did a major chunk of the remaining task out there. If not too much hell breaks loose tomorrow, I may get that entire wall primed and painted before we get the H and H back in here.
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Work's been a little quiet, with many potential ports of call out of commission due to late-summer vacations. Many of the calls I am getting are of the Frankly Weird persuasion- from past clients I haven't heard from in ages, and from a spate of wrong numbers. Even so, the first eight months of this year are fast approaching their close with just about everything where I need it to be financially, and with prospects of a couple of new projects ahead to make the coming months seem not too scary-bearish.
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Emily returns to school two weeks from tomorrow. I still feel pangs this time of year as I send her off, and read the various entries here of yourselves and/or your kids beginning yet another year, even though it's been well over 20 years since I shared the experience. I wish you all the important things in your learning and growing in '07-'08: comfort in the things you already know, pleasant surprises in the new things you're going to experience, and room/housemates who leave enough hot water in the shower by the time it's your turn.
thunderemerald was kind enough to pass on, the eponymous first book in the Hal Spacejock series.It's pretty much what you'd expect from the title and the genre- granted, it would have been shelved as a calculus book if it had many more deriviatives (2001, Star Wars, HHGTG and Firefly, most obviously), but its pages turned promptly and with more than a few belly laughs, so I'm happy for, and will be passing on, the literary Lindsaylove.
Next up is something rather different: Atul Gawande is an author, practicing physician and (damn him!) a current Macarthur Genius Grant recipient, and his New Yorker articles on Thingsus Medicus simply sing when you read them. Several of them, along with some other pieces, have been collected into a book of his titled simply Better, which, from its studies of such medical mundaneries as childbirth and medical handwashing, can clearly make just about anything interesting by making it well-written.
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Another day, another wall. Well, half a wall in the garage, half-painted. I took off from the dayjob a bit early today after hearing that our late August coolness was entirely temporary (it's supposed to be upper 80s/mid 20s C and humid again by week's end), so I took advantage and did a major chunk of the remaining task out there. If not too much hell breaks loose tomorrow, I may get that entire wall primed and painted before we get the H and H back in here.
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Work's been a little quiet, with many potential ports of call out of commission due to late-summer vacations. Many of the calls I am getting are of the Frankly Weird persuasion- from past clients I haven't heard from in ages, and from a spate of wrong numbers. Even so, the first eight months of this year are fast approaching their close with just about everything where I need it to be financially, and with prospects of a couple of new projects ahead to make the coming months seem not too scary-bearish.
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Emily returns to school two weeks from tomorrow. I still feel pangs this time of year as I send her off, and read the various entries here of yourselves and/or your kids beginning yet another year, even though it's been well over 20 years since I shared the experience. I wish you all the important things in your learning and growing in '07-'08: comfort in the things you already know, pleasant surprises in the new things you're going to experience, and room/housemates who leave enough hot water in the shower by the time it's your turn.