Weekend Retrospective in Unordered List with Minimal Nesting

[dawn_felagund]

• Every now and then, I have one of those social butterfly weekends. This was one of those weekends. Bobby and I met our friends Tristan and Don for Indian food on Friday night. On Saturday, we hosted a Burns supper for six of our friends in the SCA. It was so, so much fun. The food, prepared by Bobby (except vanilla ice cream by moi), was fabulous

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[dawn_felagund]

We got into the 40s on Monday, and Bobby opened the window in the car when he went out to lunch. (Which I thought was pushing it, personally, but it did feel nice for, oh, about six hours! :D)

Now it is 14F and was 6F when we woke up this morning (at 8 AM, because we had enough light snow to warrant a two-hour school delay).

I enjoyed Thomas Paine. Parts were tedious (he does a lot of economic breakdowns and spends quite a bit of time arguing with this member of the English House of Commons named Mr. Burke) but it was fascinating to see these ideas that were so radical in their day and that we now either take for granted or that have somehow been forgotten by those who like to carry on about how such-and-such was wanted by the Founding Fathers. (Chief of that the idea that it is itself a form of tyranny to impose the laws of a previous generation on the current generation, similar to Jefferson's notion that there should be a revolution in every generation.)

The Paine writings are available for free online and on Kindle (I'm sure Nook too). I paid something like $1.99 to download them to my Kindle with a table of contents and other features that make navigating a work of that length easier.

I actually loved Don Quixote; my chief regret was that I only had two weeks with it and so had to push through it rather fast. I plan to reread it when I have time to read it more for enjoyment than the culling of quotes for discussion boards and term papers! :^P

I had to read literature once in Spanish class: La Gitanilla, also by Cervantes, in my Spanish IV class in the tenth grade. I remember it being so challenging at first and then getting easier! I read DQ in the English translation; my Spanish is no longer up to par for that! :)

[indy1776]

I think it was 3 when I woke up this morning. But it'll be warmer for the next couple of days before it gets cold again. (I like cold weather. This is too much!)

I'll look on Gutenburg for Paine's stuff. I've heard enough about it to know I'd find it intriuging. I know I've read excerpts, but I don't remember them. (I have access to my Dad's iPad, but it's work-owned, so I don't put much of anything on it.)

DQ is one of those books that I think I should read just because it is what it is, but given that my to-read list is 43 books long (and those are just the ones I own, not the library books)… I don't think it'll be anytime soon. And definitely in the translation; I barely remember any Spanish.