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A great leap forward
29/02/2024 10:00 pmI'm slinking by for a quick squiggle on this strange day.
It's been the most gorgeous weather over the last few days. No nasty 40 degree days since last Friday. I'm now beginning to feel almost normal.
I had originally planned to spend this once every 4 year day watching the sunset at the beach. Sculptures by the Sea officially starts tomorrow but I usually turn up a few days early to get a sneak peek without all the crowds.
But the map is not the territory. By the time I finished work at 4pm I just felt too tired to bother.
The sun sets around 7pm these days. I like to turn up around 6pm to get the best of both worlds.
But that meant catching a bus in rush hour.
Then there was the minor matter of the most amazing stash I snaffled today.
Books by Temple Grandin & Keith Devlin, a gorgeous illustrated Hunting of the Snark by Lewis Carroll along with a not so brief history of Time. More about sundials, egg timers, train stations and gorgeous grandfather clocks.
Two Stephen Hawking books also turned up. Not the usual suspect but one about space and the other about integers.
Since the 5 Stephen King books were snapped up from their display within an hour of putting them out, I replaced them with the 2 Hawkings,a Brian Greene, Freakonomics & another 2 about string theory and the large hadron collider.
Unfortunately I can't post pictures because it's so complicated on Dreamwidth.
Last week there was "Dragons and Desktops", "Wikinomics" and "Bad Blood" about the con artist Elisabeth Holmes.
All stuff about Wall Street and Silicon Valley.
So I figured, I will pop into a cafe, peek at my geek stash then return to the Lair to do an end of month Blitz.
I'm still behind on decluttering but I have managed to get into the habit of doing a bit every day and to have certain days for cleaning & tidying certain areas so the crawling chaos never gets too out of control.
There is something about deadlines, end of the week, month, year etc that seems to add a bit of buzz to the batteries.
This evening was particularly productive.
Hopefully tomorrow I won't be too zonked to go to see the sculptures. It's the 20th anniversary and I suspect I'm one of the very few people who have been at least once for every single year.
It's been the most gorgeous weather over the last few days. No nasty 40 degree days since last Friday. I'm now beginning to feel almost normal.
I had originally planned to spend this once every 4 year day watching the sunset at the beach. Sculptures by the Sea officially starts tomorrow but I usually turn up a few days early to get a sneak peek without all the crowds.
But the map is not the territory. By the time I finished work at 4pm I just felt too tired to bother.
The sun sets around 7pm these days. I like to turn up around 6pm to get the best of both worlds.
But that meant catching a bus in rush hour.
Then there was the minor matter of the most amazing stash I snaffled today.
Books by Temple Grandin & Keith Devlin, a gorgeous illustrated Hunting of the Snark by Lewis Carroll along with a not so brief history of Time. More about sundials, egg timers, train stations and gorgeous grandfather clocks.
Two Stephen Hawking books also turned up. Not the usual suspect but one about space and the other about integers.
Since the 5 Stephen King books were snapped up from their display within an hour of putting them out, I replaced them with the 2 Hawkings,a Brian Greene, Freakonomics & another 2 about string theory and the large hadron collider.
Unfortunately I can't post pictures because it's so complicated on Dreamwidth.
Last week there was "Dragons and Desktops", "Wikinomics" and "Bad Blood" about the con artist Elisabeth Holmes.
All stuff about Wall Street and Silicon Valley.
So I figured, I will pop into a cafe, peek at my geek stash then return to the Lair to do an end of month Blitz.
I'm still behind on decluttering but I have managed to get into the habit of doing a bit every day and to have certain days for cleaning & tidying certain areas so the crawling chaos never gets too out of control.
There is something about deadlines, end of the week, month, year etc that seems to add a bit of buzz to the batteries.
This evening was particularly productive.
Hopefully tomorrow I won't be too zonked to go to see the sculptures. It's the 20th anniversary and I suspect I'm one of the very few people who have been at least once for every single year.
