Holidays
I’ve been very slack at updating, and writing and lots of things. Sorry. Christmas Day and Boxing day were days of sloth and slumber. We had a duck for our Christmas dinner. Not a huge success, but we enjoyed ourselves anyway. These days when the whole family is together are precious. We have varying timetables, [...]
More Tales of the City – Armistead Maupin
Second book in the Tales of the City series. Armistead Maupin is hitting his stride with this one. He spins his little plots, teasing the reader along, sucking them in, until somehow, we’re edging ourselves along a catwalk high above a startled crowd and the horrific secret is revealed. This book sparkles like the waters [...]
Variable Star – Robert A Heinlein
Like Spider Robinson, I cut my science fiction teeth on Library Heinleins. They made it onto the school library shelves, they had to be good. And wholesome. So it was a pleasant surprise in Books-a-Million in Kansas City to find a new Heinlein. I snapped it up at the bargain price of $4.93. Written from [...]
Swing old, swing new
OK. This one’s a little trite, but I forgive it for the pun at the end:
I thought about the 30 year business I ran with 1800 employees, all without a Blackberry that played music, took videos, pictures and communicated with Facebook and Twitter..
I signed up under duress for Twitter and Facebook, so my seven kids, their spouses, 13 grandkids and 2 great grand kids could communicate with me in the modern way. I figured I could handle something as simple as Twitter with only 140 characters of space.
Test
Just a quick post
Blog revolution
I’m currently testing a new blog format. Just really playing about at the moment, but I’m aiming for a more professional approach. I’ve currently got several different blogs on several different sites, including a number of duplicates. Keeping them all going is a bit like that guy at the circus who has several plates spinning, [...]
Funny post
This one’s a scream!
26. Boomgate
BookCrossing. Giving away perfectly good books to strangers. Quint couldn’t understand it at all, but Ann took a strange amount of fun from the disease, often closing the shop for weeks at a time while she travelled to conventions where fellow-sufferers gathered to discuss their symptoms.
“Not my cup of tea, Ann. You tried to sign me up, remember?”
“You either get it or you don’t.”
Quint nodded. “Like a cold.”
“I caught it off Ann,” Harley said. “Anyway, I was on the airport rank yesterday, and I had a couple of spare seconds, so I whipped out and released a book against one of the pillars. This book.”
25. Many mugs
Thursday morning’s run was difficult. “Jesus H!” exclaimed Ann, as the cold bit her on the nose. “Christ!” she said, taking a second breath. Frost crunched on the grass, cars were ghostly shapes, their windows covered in ice, and her breath was a white flag of surrender as she turned to go back inside. Maybe [...]
24. The clerk who came in from the cold
Kim watched the guards trudge away. What he really wanted was a shovel. A true cover-up. Problem with a quick fix on a construction site was that another idiot with a shovel or back-hoe would undoubtedly uncover the bones all over again. Besides, whoever the intruder was, he or she had been busily disinterring them.
The skeleton, or at least the parts he could see, looked old. Fossil rather than fresh. Maybe there was an elderly murderer out there mounting their own cover-up.