I finished Dylan's Chronicles: Volume 1 the other day. Thanks, Dmoose. (It was a Christmas present.)

I thought it was good. Some people accused the author of name-dropping, and there are something like 14 pages of glowing recommendations of others in the front...

But I still enjoyed it. It's worth a read. It's funny, considering Dylan's current stature, about how he looked up to various people, some of whom I at least had never heard of.

I haven't been doing a whole lot these last few days.

Staying at home, working from time to time, in little bursts - the odd phone call, tech support email, taking naps, reading... just generally taking it easy.

I've been reading quite a bit of Edward Abbey, and danger will robinson, I just ran across a website that *gasp* sells all his books. My bank account shudders.

Book Game

Here are the rules
1. Grab the nearest book
2. Open the book to page 123
3. Find the fifth sentence
4. Post the text of the next 3 sentences on your blog, along with these instructions.
5. Don't you dare dig for that "cool" or "intellectual" book in your closet! I know you were thinking about it. Just grab what is closest!

Okay, I stole this from Nevermore.

The selection was taken from Your Word, O Lord: Meditations for College Students, written by our own Father Buckley.

I got a bit of crumpled up Denver Post as packaging for one of the many packages I received last week. An article in the crumpled bit -- which is now another crumpled bit in my garbage can -- was about Alexander McCall Smith.

Have any of you, dear readers, read any of his works? All that bioethics work prejudices me against him, but he m-i-g-h-t come down on the r-i-g-h-t side of the fence for that, so who knows? And his writing m-a-y be good despite his political views. So?

I haven't read enough Robert A. Heinlein, though Starship Troopers is an old favorite (and it is nothing like the movie, d"£$ it!).