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I've just finished reading David Gerrold's novel Jumping Off the Planet. (His greatest claim to celebrity status is probably that he wrote the "Trouble with Tribbles" episode of Star Trek although people who actually read science fiction might know him as the author of When Harlie Was One or his War with the Chtorr series.... but why don't you just go and check out his webpage... it's pretty cool) I burst out laughing toward the end of Jumping Off the Planet when I came upon a character named Bev Sykes. I had forgotten that Bev was a friend of Gerrold's and that he had named a character after her. Anyway, the book is a good read and I recommend it to you. What else am I reading? Well, I've been rereading parts of Java Servlets by Karl Moss. I'm also reading some White Papers I downloaded from Sun.
Oh, and last night I hit amazon.com and selected a bunch of books -- all science fiction novels -- which I put into the save-for-later part of my shopping cart... but then thought about an upcoming business trip, time sitting around airports, time in an airplane (although I'm only going to Pittsburgh so it's not a long flight), time spent in hotel room channel surfing (although if I bring my laptop I suppose I could do some journal surfing instead)... and about how nice it is to sit on a front porch (or at the beach) in the summer and read a book... I'm usually very busy... and through the spring and early summer I was especially busy... the four day Independence Day weekend was a marvelous chance to relax... and I really need to do more relaxing... so I moved three of them back to buy-now and they should arrive sometime next week:
Nancy is out of town; she and her mother left this morning to drive over to New York State to attend a christening for a niece. Uh, that is, the new mom is our niece so I guess that makes Nancy a great-aunt of the baby. To think that a niece who was just a little girl at our wedding could now be married and have two kids. So, my major assignment is to tape the Wimbledon singles finals. Okay, got the Williams-Davenport match this morning (also got the start of the men's doubles); must remember to get the men's final tomorrow. Oh yeah, also have to return two sets of curtains and pick up three sets with a different length and also buy another rose trellis like the one she got earlier this week. And since I need to pick up Sean (playing miniature golf and racing go-carts, etc. with a friend) in half an hour and that's very close to the store where I need to be for these errands, I think I will click on Save and get out of here... and when I return I can just sit on the porch for an hour or so and read. |