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WEEK 17 2007

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Saturday 28 April 2007

Saturday - Taking it easy. 

Friday 27 April 2007

Friday - up to Dads place. Not a bad drive, though I left late and stopped at a friends place in Tehachapi for lunch. I didn't get into Martinez until 7-ish, which meant I avoided a lot (not all) of the crush at the 580/680 intersection. (I need to get a map of Livermore and see if there is a reasonably quick bypass on city streets of the mess there at the intersection. On a bad day it can take twenty minutes to get through.)

I almost had a ride up with some folk who were going up to SF, but their mini-van was already loaded up - a full size gas dryer, two bicycles, three people and all their luggage. But it was OK, the back thing is just an old muscle pull and is just stiff the day after the aggravation, and a couple of Ibuprofen sufficed for the drive.

We watched the Snakes Diamondbacks whomp the Giants. Which means I pocketed 25 cents.

Thursday 26 April  2007

Thursday - I took the day off, planning to head up north for the weekend, a bit early. Unfortunately I tweaked my back - I'm not sure how - and spent the day laying about moaning and reading scifi.

Sofia took off, and landed, successfully. That will make a lot of people at Dryden happy.  Particularly those that have made a career out of flying to Waco in the last year or so. A nice place to visit, I'm told, but...

Wednesday 25 April 2007

Wednesday - pretty tired tonight. And I'm not in Hawaii. And it's late, so I'll just leave you with a couple of links.

Thoughtful submariners, and dolphins.


Some people have waaaay too much time on their hands: for example, this guy uses a printer to make Super 8 movies. [via Kottke] Cutting the holes out with a exacto knife  really puts it over the top it for me...

Tuesday 24 April 2007

Tuesday - I've started on a biography of Meriwether Lewis (audio tape, Ambrose) and was honestly a bit puzzled about the Louisiana Purchase being such a big deal. I mean, one little state? Since this book cried out for maps I stopped by the library and picked up a big picture book on the subject. I know I must have learned of all this in school, but if so it is long gone. It was a huge tract of land:

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The "picture book" has turned out to be a companion to a Ken Burns' documentary on the Lewis and Clark expedition. I'll have to watch that one of these days.

 Monday 23 April 2007

Monday - back to work. Nice weather again.


Twittervision, which seems to be a real time map of people around the planet texting stuff. Interesting in a not much is happening today sort of way...

Book #30 was Sorcery and Cecelia, or, The Enchanted Chocolate Pot, by Wrede and Stevermer. Eh. It's an attempt to blend Regency Romance and Magic genre's, and it didn't do much for me. A book set in the same period, 2004's Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell, on the other hand, was excellent.

Sunday 22 April 2007

Sunday - not a lot to say. Went out to work for a couple of hours.

Book #29 was Academia Nuts; or the Collected Works of Clara LePage, by Charles Larson. A collection of stories, somewhat dated now,  with fun take-off's on the field of English Literature. I read it in junior college, and just ran across it again recently.

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desert butte and tree

Photo Notes: Desert Butte and old tree off East Avenue J.

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