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03:00 pm
snopes_dot_com
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The Tipping Point
http://www.snopes.com/politics/business/oprahtip.asp Did Oprah Winfrey tell her audience that restaurant patrons need not tip their servers more than 10 percent?
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09:34 pm
vulpine137
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Weekend ending
This weekend is almost over, and while I'm not dreading the work week,
I'm not really looking forward to it either. Oh well, things will be ok.
Moodwise I'm pretty good, not much anxiety or moodyness. Going to go
play with ferrets and read my book, then head for bed. Sleep, perchance
to dream.
Current Mood: tired
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08:28 pm
sirwishbone
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Sigh.... last night of the weekend
One more night at home... up at 4:30 am to get to work on time in Kitchener. Sigh... I'm still not past this cold, my head is stuffed with cotton.
I can't brain, I have the dumb.
I still have to pack my bags, make my lunch, and put them in the van so that I don't have to do as much in the morning.
I have to work on my own tomorrow, I'll likely be replacing grounds on a stretch of fence. I'm hoping for decent weather, at least.
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11:18 am
vulpine137
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Ever have a party, and only Livejournal people showed up ?
Last night we had a planned gaming night, just the guys (since the gals
were all at a bachelorette party). It would have been a bachelor party,
but the bachelor was in NJ for work. Well I get there after snagging
dinner and a couple of cheap books at Half Price (more Roman stuff,
including Household Gods recommended by ![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif) miintikwa). Well, due
to scheduling foo it ended up being a small group, me,
techie_, and wesmills. We ended not playing any
games, instead we spent the night talking, bs'ing, and generally having
fun. Came home around midnight, finished up my book I've been reading
and crashed out.
Now I'm awake, just ate breakfast and took my meds. I need to do laundry
today, beyond that no real 'plans'. Just gonna relax. Then start up
another work week. Wee fun.
Current Mood: okish
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03:00 pm
snopes_dot_com
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Fantastic Music Machine
http://www.snopes.com/photos/arts/musicmachine.asp Video clip purportedly shows a music-playing "farm machine" built at the University of Iowa.
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09:01 pm
postsecret
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Sunday Secrets
http://postsecret.blogspot.com/2009/11/sunday-secrets_07.html
PostSecret is an ongoing community art project where people
mail in their secrets anonymously on one side of a postcard.
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-----Email Message-----
I met someone who felt the same way, but I remember him more for being strong enough to change. From him I learned that people are more than their mistakes.
-----Email Message-----
Many years ago, an older man that I trusted had inappropriate sexual contact with me. Twelve years of therapy and a suicide attempt later, and I still live with it every day.
A big part of me will forever be defined by the worst thing that ever happened to me.
-----Email Message-----
I am a prisoner of my own indecision.
Order Your Copy Today
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08:10 pm
farrell
![[User Picture]](http://l-userpic.livejournal.com/36212499/11146) [Link] | So it's been a while since the last update. No, I haven't fallen off the face of the planet, but it feels that way sometimes.
The biggest change I suppose is that I am flat broke, and not kidding. Simply put, even after cutting my spending back to nothing during unemployment, and to essentials and the occasional piece of cheap entertainment since being hired, my salary hasn't been covering all my expenses, and what was left of my savings dwindled down to under $20 -- including the cash I had in my wallet.
This necessitated tapping my HSA for gas on Friday, money I *swore* I would not be touching. And over the next few weeks, I'll probably continue using my HSA for gas until I get my checking account built back up.
The trouble is that instead of getting paid weekly, I get paid every other week, and I'm having to manually deposit my paycheck. (As an employee, I can't have my paycheck direct-deposited to another financial institution. Really annoying.) So while I know how much I'm making, the fact that I have to "coast" a whole week without new income doesn't help. Neither does the fact that I'm accustomed to not having to spend much on gas, whereas now my gas bill approaches $60 - $100 a week.
To give you some idea of how on the bleeding edge I am, my expenses for rent, power, the car loan payments, basic cable/Internet, and gas put me at $1,600 a month. My income for a month is a few bucks shy of $1,800. In other words, that leaves me with just $200 a month for all my food and laundry costs, and any other expenses I rack up. This doesn't include anything for saving up for car insurance costs, tax payments, etc.
On how much I've cut back? My laundry all gets dried in one load at the wrong temperature settings for half of it to save $2. I eat out of vending machines at work for breakfast and lunch, because I can't afford milk, cereal, or to grab a salad or sub from the grocery store down the block at work. Dinner... well, I've been making do with the leftovers from my unemployment pantry, but it looks like I have a handful of meals left of that -- if you count meals as something a third of what I'd normally eat a meal -- before I'm reduced to Ramen. I actually have the circuit breaker to my baseboard heat turned OFF and am heating the apartment solely by computer power and blanket (which works for now.) And I'm incredibly thankful that my rent includes my water, or else I'd be skipping showers.
Again, keep in mind that when I moved out, I had a salary just under $40k, was making almost $43k at the height of my time at ex-work, had taken a 5% pay cut with the rest of the company leadership in January, and then drained my accounts by about half this summer. Right now, I'm working for $30k and doing a 45 minute commute.
It's stressful, to be sure. But I have a very optimistic outlook come November 20th, which should mark the end of my 90 day trial period and hopefully some sort of a raise. I *do* know at this point that they are definitely keeping me on board -- the name plate for my desk arrived this week, and they don't order those unless you're staying. But I while I was told there'd be a raise at that point, that I shouldn't expect anything big.
So there it is. Not much I can do about that but to keep busting ass at work and hope that recognition for that work -- which includes having to pick up a LOT of slack from the unexpected departure of an employee just a few weeks after starting -- will be generous.
Not much else to report, mostly because I can't really do anything. I got caught up in Dwarf Fortress for a bit, which was an amusing diversion but has kinda lost its immediate appeal. I got into "The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya", which was amusing for its parallels to old Coronado plots and in a ways, RPGing in general.
Aaand not much more. I spent a little time tweaking things in SimCity. CitiesXL, I've mostly abandoned at this point. (And boy I wish I'd gotten into the open beta, or I'd have never spent money on it. :\ )
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05:42 pm
sirwishbone
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Crown Tournament Feast, working, etc.
I'm about a week late in writing this, but it's the only occasion that I've had the spare time and the energy.
Last weekend was the Crown Tournament in Ealdormere. We had blessed that we had so many worthy combatants, including my own Knight Sir Konrad, Sir Wat, THL Quilliam, THL Streonwald, Naga, and many others. Sadly, I couldn't watch the fighting, nor attend my Knight (which made me very sad) but I was cooking Feast at the time.
I was more than honoured thyat we were chosen to cook the Crown Feast, so Misty and I did some serious research and put a lot of thought into it. We took some dishes from the Coronation Feast of Henry IVth, such as the gilded veal meatballs, the Connynges in Cyrip (rabbits poached in sweet wine and currants) and the gingerbread. The chickens were also inspired from that feast. The shortbread was an old Celtic recipe.
We wanted starter food to be on the table when people say down to feast, because there's nothing worse than sitting and waiting for feast with hungry and fussy children wiggling and whining for food. :) We cheated a bit with the roasted red pepper butter, since Red Peppers aren't period, but otherwise I'm happy with the appropriateness of the ingredients.
For those that weren't there. our menu was:
ON THE TABLE
Gilded Veal and Fennel Meatballs
Bread
Roasted Red Pepper Butter
Herb Butter
Apple Butter
Olives
Pickles
FIRST COURSE
Pork Pies with Apple Mint Jelly
Deboned Stuffed Capon
Green Peas with Onions and Bacon
Honeyed Carrots with Ginger
Buttered Noodles
Lemon Orange Ice
Shortbread Cookies
SECOND COURSE
Roast Beef with Orange, Plum, and Fig conserve
Roasted Root Vegetables
Connynges in Cyrip ( Rabbit poached in sweet wine and black currants)
Braised Red Cabbage with apples and raisins\
Baked Custard
Gingerbread with Spiced Pear Sauce
I was very fortunate to have a stellar crew cooking with me. Misty did a huge amount of pre-cooking (especially since I started work out-of-town the week before the Feast). She did all of the preserves as well- the apple mint jelly, the orange plum fig conserve, the apple butter, and the pear sauce. My cooking Mistress Aibhilin, and Anaeas were also cooking with us, as well as Janice, Tamara and Randi (although Randi had to go home partway through the day because she fell ill). Throughout the day we also pressed others into service, such as Baroness Margaret, Seonag (who helped with cooking and dishes afterwards!), and Micaylah Michelle Groulx. Yvonne was wonderful, doing sinkload after sinkload of dishes all day long, as well as Symonne and Joanna who helped with dishes afterwards too.
My own special project this time was the Ox-tail soup. I wanted it to be as amazing as possible. It was a two-day soup, with hours and hours of simmering. The first day was doing the chicken broth to use as a base for the soup. I used all the bones from the deboned chicken to do that, boiling them for hours with turnip, onion, and cloves. After it was done, strained, cooled, and degreased, that broth was used on feast day for the soup. It was simmered with the beef consommee, the carrots, the herbs, the ox tails, and the other ingredients for another 5 hours or so, strained, clarified, reduced, flavoured with wine, and then served with caramelized diced carrots and pieces of the ox tail as a garnish. Apparently His Majesty had 3 bowls and cleaned all the meat from the ox tail pieces. :)
Aibhilin stood in front of the hot oil for hours, deep frying the veal meat balls. They were seasoned with ground fennel and saffron, dipped in egg and then bread crumbs.
Anaeas spent hours doing the homemade pasta. The pasta maker died halfway through, so he had to finish off making the pasta thin with a rolling pin. It was not a small source of frustration for him, but he stubbornly stuck with it and made oodles of lovely pasta for feasters and servers.
We fed the servers a half hour before the feast, on homemade pasta with homemade alfredo sauce. They seemed to appreciate it, and they had enough energy to get through the whole feast. Of course, they also got first pick of leftovers.
I've always said that the first thing a feast cook should do is start 2 or 3 large pots of water to boiling and to keep them topped up, because when you need boiling water in quantities, it always takes forever before it gets there. We were happy to have them there several times during the course of the evening! However, the next time that I want to do homemade pasta, I'll make it the day before. It doesn't take long to make pasta for a family of 4, but a hell of a lot longer to make it for 70 feasters!
We had to drop the baked custard, unfortunately. When we baked them they didn't firm up, and when we tried to boil them after that, they turned into scrambled eggs in a bowl. Luckily, everyone was so full by the end of the second course that I don't think that anyone noticed.
I was thrilled to hear that Quilliam had won Crown. He has the right attitude and personality, chivalrous and honourable to a fault. I'm so proud of him! He has worked long and hard to get to where he is today. Dagmar is a wonderful person as well, we just love her to pieces, as does anyone who knows her.
It's a bit different doing service by cooking a feast than it is to do other arts and sciences. If you make a bad scroll or bad clothing, only a few people are affected. If you make a bad feast, you can shame yourself, your group, your Barony, or even your Kingdom. Thankfully, we have some excellent cooks in this kingdom who can step up to the plate when they are needed.
We received thanks during Court from Their Majesties, and Tamara got a special mention from Christiana, the Baroness of Septentria. Tamara was thrilled, especially since she doesn`t help from any desire for awards. I officially made Tamara my cooking student afterwards. :)
I`m so thankful for all the help we had after the feast, doing dishes, helping us pack up and move stuff to the van... people like Eirik, Bjarn, and Tarian. If it wasn`t for all the help throughout the day, we never could have pulled it off.
So, I'm currently working for Hydro One, stationed in Detweiler TS near Kitchener. I talked the other two guys in my crew into working 4 ten hour shifts per week, I am staying with Heather and Moe on Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday nights. I'm very fortunate to have such good friends!
My job is to replace missing ground cables at Hydro One stations, specifically those stolen by thieves. There are people desperate enough to break into high voltage stations and cut sections of copper grounding cables off of the towers and equipment. Desperate people do desperate things, I guess. So, I get to wrestle 4/0 copper cable into shape and crimp them to the ends of the remaining copper. It's outside work, and fairly physically demanding, so I actually managed to lose about 5 pounds last week.
I've been sick for 2 weeks now, and trying to shake it off this weekend. I had my birthday last week, my 43rd, so I need to keep a closer eye on my health. I want to be around a long, long time for my family. I joined the YMCA a month ago, to work on my stamina and my core strength. I'm getting fitter, and soon I may have Abs again. I want to be able to fight proficiently when I get to fight practice- next week, if I can shake off this flu/cold.
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03:27 pm
serendipity
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and a little library humor
Credit: jessamyn at librarian.net
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03:12 pm
serendipity
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Do me a favor and watch this, please
Biblioburro!
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01:43 pm
vulpine137
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Glorious Saturdayness
Yay for Saturdays, I'm over at
Amythest's place, watching tv
and keeping her company while she works on school foo. Been a good
day, got up this morning kinda late, I forced myself to sleep in a bit.
Got up, got showered, got bacon. Then I headed out for my first walk
since Monday. Legs are still less than thrilled with me for the
labors on Thursday. So it was a short walk, but nice. Pretty day here
in Texas. Then I headed over to the Lair of the Amythest :)
Tonight I'll be hanging out with friends, gaming night of some kind.
Should be fun. Beyond that, I plan on just vegging out and catching up
on history shows. Yeah, I'm a geek, and I love it.
Current Mood: good
Current Music: Show on Etruscians on TV
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01:26 pm
onemoreshadow
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First review of "Temporary Monsters"
The first official review of "Temporary Monsters" has come in, and it's a goodie! Courtesy of Robert Dunbar, author of the excellent horror novels The Pines and The Shore, as well a collection of short fiction called Martyrs & Monsters.
"It’s always thrilling to make a discovery like this. Ian Rogers’ “Temporary Monsters” introduces what promises to be an engaging saga, seething with vampires, werewolves, hardboiled dames and – notably – a soulfully wise-cracking detective named Felix Renn. More exciting ideas, more action, more chills and laughs lurk within this slim volume than you’ll find in any ten fat tomes on the current best seller list. Grab a copy. You won’t want to miss a ride this wild."
I'd sit here and bask in the glow of such kind words, but my wife says I have to go rake leaves. Not nearly as fun, but I suppose it has to be done.
Currently reading: Lamb, by Christopher Moore
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03:00 pm
snopes_dot_com
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Free Meals for Veterans
http://www.snopes.com/inboxer/nothing/veterans.asp Restaurant chains are offering free meals to U.S. military personnel in conjunction with Veterans Day.
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06:18 pm
vulpine137
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05:38 pm
sirwishbone
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I haven't posted in forever
Apologies to all my friends on here, I haven't updated in forever. I will try to do so more frequently, starting this weekend.
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05:24 pm
sirwishbone
[Link] |
A conversation with Connor
We're leaving a convenience store, and Connor is in the van with me. He sees a sign on the store window. It says FAX.
Connor: F. A. X. That spells... Fax!!
Me: Very good, Connor! You're a good reader.
Connor: If you change the A to an O, you get... FOX!
Me: That's right!
Connor: And if you change the A to a U...
Me: Um...
Connor: You get FEWX!!
Me: Um... yeah, that's right!
Connor: No wait, you get FUX!
Me: Yeah... but we don`t say that word, do we?
Connor: Nope.
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12:01 pm
vulpine137
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Thank Cthulhu It's Friday
Having a day, not as anxious as the last couple. Still have some
anxiety feelings, but nothing like yesterday morning or Wednesday afternoon.
I got some decent sleep, save a bad dream about a girl (that I don't know
in RL) who had been interested in me, but only seemed to be able to list
off a bunch of petty faults in me. Oh well, her loss ;)
Last night I hung out with Amythest,
caught about half of the latest Mythbusters episode (she thought it was an
older one), then watched Castle, then watched Cash in the Attic. Was a
fairly relaxing evening. After the afternoon I had prowling around a
dark DC looking for stuff to move over, I need the relaxation. Btw, if you
ever want to make a scary movie "Haunted Datacenter' would be good. I had
to poke my head up though ceiling tiles to get bits of the camera system,
and every time I did, I had mental images from most every horror movie I've
seen. Silly Vulpine. But I survived.
Tonight, no planned plans. I'm going to play it by ear, depending on how
I'm feeling. Lets see how today goes.
Current Mood: ok
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09:11 am
courtly
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What makes me Happy?
A friend of mine asked me that a little while back. What makes me Happy?
The first two answers were fairly simple and platonic and after that I got kinda distracted. (Probably on account of thinking about thing number two).
The first was solving puzzles and problems. That makes me happy. Abstract is good, concrete is better, but THOSE often don't have clear-cut solutions, so I've had to learn how to break down concrete problems and back them up against their driving requirements, and find a way to solve THOSE. So Abstract puzzles and problems are both less work and usually more logical (and less about balancing various compromised needs). I think it's a huge part of why I'm drawn to video games, puzzle books, mathematics, computer program development, and the like. Puzzle solving makes me happy, gives me a rush of success and supports my confidence.
The second thing that sprang to mind was sushi. Sushi specifically has this tendency to make my really fundamentally Happy. This, you might think, has to do with having a Japanese mother. Not quite so, I'd wager... I clearly remember my first encounter with sushi. It was Harrowing. Maybe I'll tell you sometime. But in any case, today, sushi makes me Happy. Well, good sushi does.
Now I started this post because I feel the urge to continue. So...
Pleasing people makes me Happy. This is a large part of my struggles with confidence, I think. I understand that it's risky and fairly volatile to put a large stake of your happiness on the reactions of other people. It gives them all these levers that manipulate your emotions, that they can throw accidentally or with intent. I've been getting better at putting up boundaries so that the inevitable instances where there's nothing I can do to please someone, or to make things okay for them, don't send me into a spiral, and don't send me into irritating fits of trying to fix things.
Connecting with people makes me Happy. Connection is probably a fundamental driver for most people I know, in fact. Heck, I wouldn't feel like I was going out on a limb to know that connecting to people is a nearly universal human driver. So perhaps this isn't saying very much. But it's nonetheless true and good to acknowledge. Travelling from someone's outer circles of acquaintanceship down into their smaller and more intimate orbits is really delightful and rewarding. It works platonically and it works romantically, which I would guess is why affairs happen and appear to even sometimes take the participants by surprise. But if you can keep those feelings somewhat distinct, I think it poses much less of a risk.
Creating makes me Happy. Why am I not engaging in it right now? Well, I've asked myself that a lot in the last few years (my SCA scribal hiatus). And now I see that it's been crowded out by other things that make me Happy. My life is blessed with a huge cup-running-over crowd of Things That Make Me Happy. I am, inevitably, dropping some to keep room for others. So now I'm a lot less worried about the source of my writer's block. But I'd still like to make some balance there. So I'm going to keep trying to install it. Besides, this reign in the SCA, the Royals are using ribbons and wax seals. I just GOTTA get some of my work done up like that. Yay!
Thinking further, learning makes me Happy. I have a curious (if sometimes quite lazy) mind, but it does enjoy acquiring knowledge, skills, new perspectives, techniques, approaches. I went through a few years when a friend was becoming a contractor, that I really wanted to set aside time and learn from him a lot more about the skills he was picking up. I've never felt terribly handy, and I don't even really know what sorts of tools exist to get various jobs done. But it wasn't so much the need to know it, as the opportunity to expand my knowledge that drew me, I think. And here I might be stagnating a little too much also... time to study something perhaps. Or tackle a different challenge in one of my existing hobbies.
There are surely others I could list, but This seems a good start.
Current Mood:  happy
Tags: about me
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09:06 am
courtly
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PAX East
Yeah, I think I'm going to make the time to go. I'm not as ENTRENCHED in the gaming community as I once was, and still not as entrenched as many of my close friends are, but I think it'd be a good time.
I'm even turning over the idea of offering to work it. I haven't really done anything like it, but I'm fairly sure it would fit my demeanor and "alignment" if you will. Diplomatic, Rational, Extroverted... Considering it.
Wonder if any of my friends are considering going.
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01:36 am
courtly
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Doin' the Pigeon
Doin' the (coo coo) Pigeon!
People may smile, but I don't mind
They'll never understand the kind of fun I find...
Wow... it's Sesame Street's Birthday, so claims Google's picture just now. Wow.
One two three FOUR five six seven eight NINE ten eLEven twelve - doo dootdoo doo dootdoo doo doot doo doot doo doot doo doo ... doo doot doo doo! FORTY! :)
Heh.
So... been having a GREAT week. I'm a happy camper today. Tomorrow is bound to be a very good day too. I got a major puzzle solved at work (downside: that leaves only three more to bring me up to just "behind"), and next week H gets home! Wheeee!
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03:00 pm
snopes_dot_com
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20/20 Revision
http://www.snopes.com/politics/medical/stossel.asp Was ABC News' 20/20 co-anchor John Stossel fired for trying to air a piece critical of health care reform?
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08:02 pm
serendipity
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YAY!! High demand for an excellent non-fiction (reads like fiction) book
I returned a book that i wasn't even halfway through, because it was due today with hold requests on all copies - not only at my library but also at 25 libraries in our statewide consortium. So i got back on the list and might get to check out the book again in a few weeks. (Good as it is, i'm not going to buy it.) Anyway, i was glad to do so - this means that a great book is popular, hooray! Not enough great books are popular, and not enough popular books are great. Plus, i have plenty of reading material to keep me busy until i can read this one again. The book? | Author | Kidder, Tracy. | | Title | Strength in what remains / Tracy Kidder. | | Publication Information | New York : Random House, c2009. | | Edition | 1st ed. |
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15 holds on first copy returned of 9 copies | Description | xvii, 277 p. ; 25 cm. | | Bibliography | Includes bibliographical references (p. [273]-277). | | Contents | Flights -- Gusimbura. | | Summary | The Pulitzer Prize-winning author Tracy Kidder returns with the extraordinary true story of Deo, a young man who arrives in America from Burundi in search of a new life. After surviving a civil war and genocide, he ekes out a precarious existence delivering groceries, living in Central Park, and learning English by reading dictionaries in bookstores until he begins to meet the strangers who will change his life, pointing him eventually in the direction of Columbia University, medical school, and a life devoted to healing. |
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09:43 pm
sca
[blondebaroness]
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Iron Age 'Bling' Discovered
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,571985,00.html?test=latestnews
An amateur treasure hunter finds a trove of Iron Age jewelry on his first time out with his metal detector! Amazing!
Current Location: At home
Current Mood:  chipper
Current Music: None
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05:27 pm
sca
[raibeart_of_tx]
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memories and itunes is evil
I don't know how I ended up on itunes searching but it brought back a flood of memories. Back in the day, when I was still starry eyed with the SCA, getting ready for an event was an event in itself. Packing armor, shields , swords (both live steel and rattan) the tents, pavilion , break down table, director's chairs etc. It depended what vehicle I had at the time, the truck and van were easy, the car was a little more tricky. Then it was finishing that last bit of new garb and swearing that you would never do it again. Then the drive and getting away from the 20th century, the long hours drive sometimes. NOW here is where itunes comes in, all of the drive was filled with music meant to put you in the mood. Lot's of celtic stuff, SCA filk, and my two Never-Leave-Home-Without-Them, Meg Davis's Captain Jack and the Mermaid and Celtic Stone cassettes .
So, I was feeling nostalgic and having lost those tape long ago, decided to see if they are still around. Happy to say they are still around and now have been downloaded and placed on CDs. I can remember pulling up the Troll with the tapes still blaring, then it was usually off to set up camp in the dark (again something I swore never again) then into garb and grab my horn, then off to the camp fires. Waking up with the dew heavy on the grass and tent, coffee first at the tavern. Ok, so I am kind of excited about coming back.
time for pain meds
Current Mood:  nostalgic
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01:36 pm
sca
[dwer]
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Victory
( it's all in the name )
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