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Reading:
Council Regulation EC No. 2157/2001 of 8 October 2001 on the Statute for a European Company (SE) - 'nuff said, I'm still at work.
The Omnivore's Dilemma - Michael Pollan - I loved his earlier books, this one is equally engrossing.
Bought:
A few books a week or so ago - Euro Deco, the latest Aunt Dimity and some trash to read on a plane, which I left on the plane. Someone else might have some use for it.
Other:
Work continues to steamroller just about everything else, although we did get in a flying visit to NYC a week or so back - using up the last vestiges of vacation time (the firm has a April-March vacation year) - and getting a very much needed break. I'm rather more relaxed than I was - not just because of the vacation and the play being over, fun as it was, but because I think I've just given up trying to keep up with work. Now I'm just surfing it - the wave thunders on, and it comes in faster than I can complete it, but hey, whatever. Stressing about it just seems to slow me down. I'll probably tumble sometime soon but, with luck and a fair wind, I'll just paddle back out and get up again. Enough of the lousy metaphors!
Heading for the gym on Saturday (yes, aren't I virtuous? Mostly, actually, I'm trying not to seize up from days in front of a computer) I noticed that my local bookshop seems to have admitted defeat and is having a closing down sale; I suspect that it was defeated not by Amazon and Borders but by the local charity shops - it sold almost entirely second-hand books, not particularly cheaply. The local charity shops are awash with books which, of course, are donated. It's hard to compete with a low cost base like that, and they've clearly decided not to bother any more. I'm somewhat sorry to see them go, partly from nostalgia - they've been there a long time - and partly because I don't much care to see any bookshop close.
[edit} I'm amused that LJ's Google maps link seems to think my location - Work - is in Tennessee. Um, no. Not my work, anyway.
Council Regulation EC No. 2157/2001 of 8 October 2001 on the Statute for a European Company (SE) - 'nuff said, I'm still at work.
The Omnivore's Dilemma - Michael Pollan - I loved his earlier books, this one is equally engrossing.
Bought:
A few books a week or so ago - Euro Deco, the latest Aunt Dimity and some trash to read on a plane, which I left on the plane. Someone else might have some use for it.
Other:
Work continues to steamroller just about everything else, although we did get in a flying visit to NYC a week or so back - using up the last vestiges of vacation time (the firm has a April-March vacation year) - and getting a very much needed break. I'm rather more relaxed than I was - not just because of the vacation and the play being over, fun as it was, but because I think I've just given up trying to keep up with work. Now I'm just surfing it - the wave thunders on, and it comes in faster than I can complete it, but hey, whatever. Stressing about it just seems to slow me down. I'll probably tumble sometime soon but, with luck and a fair wind, I'll just paddle back out and get up again. Enough of the lousy metaphors!
Heading for the gym on Saturday (yes, aren't I virtuous? Mostly, actually, I'm trying not to seize up from days in front of a computer) I noticed that my local bookshop seems to have admitted defeat and is having a closing down sale; I suspect that it was defeated not by Amazon and Borders but by the local charity shops - it sold almost entirely second-hand books, not particularly cheaply. The local charity shops are awash with books which, of course, are donated. It's hard to compete with a low cost base like that, and they've clearly decided not to bother any more. I'm somewhat sorry to see them go, partly from nostalgia - they've been there a long time - and partly because I don't much care to see any bookshop close.
[edit} I'm amused that LJ's Google maps link seems to think my location - Work - is in Tennessee. Um, no. Not my work, anyway.
