Radom List O' Stuff
Jun. 16th, 2009 12:03 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
mythicalgirlThe new computer is up and running very nicely these days. I still have to download iTunes and copy all my music and pictures from the old hard drive to this new one. And take a new backup. And create a boot disk. So, yeah. I have internet, virus protection and games. Other than music what else is there?
I decided I needed to read a "classic" recently and for some reason got it in my head that it needed to be Jane Austen. I can't recall ever having read a Jane Austen book. Watched movies based on them, sure, but not read them. I chose Sense and Sensibility as that is one of my favorite movies. Finished it Saturday and them immediately watched the movie again to pick out the differences. Amazingly enough I liked the book - once I got used to the more formal style of writing. I still like the movie better but I can honestly say that I will likely pick up another JA book.
The Manual Of Detection by Jedediah Berry is much fun to read and I recommend it to everyone.
Acacia: The War With The Mein by David Anthony Durham was also very good. I saw the ending coming a long way off but that didn't detract from my enjoyment. As anyone who reads this blog knows, I like books where POV rotates through the characters. I like getting that big picture view of what's going on. I'll read the next book when it comes out.
The container garden is going strong. Tomatoes and cucumbers and beans, oh my! The carrots still have a ways to go though. So my timing sucks - I either planted the lettuce too early or everything else too late as I have lots of lettuce to eat up and no other goodies to go with it. Next year I will pay more attention to harvest dates and stagger my planting accordingly.
And it really needs to stop raining here for a while. It is gray and yucky, the ground is squishy, and the humidity is just miserable.
Now, back to work!
I decided I needed to read a "classic" recently and for some reason got it in my head that it needed to be Jane Austen. I can't recall ever having read a Jane Austen book. Watched movies based on them, sure, but not read them. I chose Sense and Sensibility as that is one of my favorite movies. Finished it Saturday and them immediately watched the movie again to pick out the differences. Amazingly enough I liked the book - once I got used to the more formal style of writing. I still like the movie better but I can honestly say that I will likely pick up another JA book.
The Manual Of Detection by Jedediah Berry is much fun to read and I recommend it to everyone.
Acacia: The War With The Mein by David Anthony Durham was also very good. I saw the ending coming a long way off but that didn't detract from my enjoyment. As anyone who reads this blog knows, I like books where POV rotates through the characters. I like getting that big picture view of what's going on. I'll read the next book when it comes out.
The container garden is going strong. Tomatoes and cucumbers and beans, oh my! The carrots still have a ways to go though. So my timing sucks - I either planted the lettuce too early or everything else too late as I have lots of lettuce to eat up and no other goodies to go with it. Next year I will pay more attention to harvest dates and stagger my planting accordingly.
And it really needs to stop raining here for a while. It is gray and yucky, the ground is squishy, and the humidity is just miserable.
Now, back to work!
