couple of books finished

[johnridley]

"We Seven" - a Life Magazine book published in 1962, a fairly detailed recount of the Mercury program by the astronauts. Very interesting, if you're in to this sort of thing. I picked up the original printing for free at a yard sale that was closing up and getting rid of stuff.

To me one of the most interesting things was the absolute certainty that they had in the U.S. continuing on to Mars after they were done with the Moon. Scott Carpenter figured that as the youngest member of the team he had a pretty good shot at being young enough to go to Mars when the time came.

It took me a couple of months to finish this, I just didn't get around to reading it much.

Also, Man-Kzin Wars VII. It's been on the shelf for probably 8 years and I wanted a quick read. I finished it in about 5 days which is pretty quick for me, given that I only read for a max of a couple of hours a day, usually more like 15 minutes. I like a bit of Niven universe stuff now and then, and if there are Kzin, so much the better.

Comments

[kevinnickerson.livejournal.com]

Huh? You read a book? On paper? two

[johnridley.livejournal.com]

Yeah, weird, huh? I have just not had any ambition to do anything useful for the last couple of weeks, so eventually I picked up a book. Thankfully, though I think I'm getting another, *different* cold now, it doesn't seem to be the energy-sucking type like the last one.

Of course, one problem is that, since I read so little, I don't have much around to read. Actually I have plenty, but it's all ebook stuff and it's been so long since I've even used the Palm for anything it's too much hassle to drag it out.

[kevinnickerson.livejournal.com]

You could grind grout from our bathroom. Two days and I have maybe 3ft^2 done out of 40ish. And I burnt up, or broke, 3 $13 bits.

[johnridley.livejournal.com]

I've got stuff to do, I just don't really want to do it.

That feeling is thankfully going away though. I was really getting on my own nerves just laying around. Yesterday I got all the lighting in the basement wired up (properly, with switches and stuff, instead of the pull-cord lights they put in when they placed the house).

[madtechie2718.livejournal.com]

You went into the basement at the weekend, lacking a basement, I went into the attic to: a) do battle with the spiders, b)remove many dusty cardboard boxes for recycling and c) add another 150mm of insulation.

Kevin, does your state not have work parties of prisoners available at a pittance to do mind-numbing back-breaking work like this? Of course they'd have to supply their own Dremel tools...