Off the grid
We're gradually getting settled in at the new apartment. I love the place, especially its roominess; 10 years crammed into our previous home has made me really appreciate room to swing my arms without knocking over a lamp.
I haven't had net access at home since we moved. Nor have we had TV. The all-in-one cable installation is due to happen on Saturday; meanwhile, we're living like our primitive ancestors, doing this odd thing called "talking with each other" to pass the time. Well, actually
madelineusher has found an open wifi link to leech, but I haven't stooped that low. Yet.
This morning, I decided to try for speed on my trip to work, just to see what might be possible. Door to door time was 45 minutes, and that was with an unusually long wait for the bus. I'll never get my antique Masonic tomes read on a commute as short as that. :)
Speaking of which, I'm nearly done with Robert Brown's Stellar Theology and Masonic Astronomy. It's a very typical "lone visionary" book -- he has one very good idea, and proceeds to apply it where it is appropriate, and then where it is not appropriate, exhaustively, stretching his argument well past the breaking point. I also tend to distrust an author's views on sacred geometry when he can write "The radius of any circle is one sixth of its circumference" with a straight face. Still, his core ideas are excellent, and the book has shed some intriguing and productive light on several symbols of special interest to me. I recommend the book if you already know Masonry and astronomy reasonably well, and can thus spot when he's gone off the rails.
I haven't had net access at home since we moved. Nor have we had TV. The all-in-one cable installation is due to happen on Saturday; meanwhile, we're living like our primitive ancestors, doing this odd thing called "talking with each other" to pass the time. Well, actually
madelineusher has found an open wifi link to leech, but I haven't stooped that low. Yet.
This morning, I decided to try for speed on my trip to work, just to see what might be possible. Door to door time was 45 minutes, and that was with an unusually long wait for the bus. I'll never get my antique Masonic tomes read on a commute as short as that. :)
Speaking of which, I'm nearly done with Robert Brown's Stellar Theology and Masonic Astronomy. It's a very typical "lone visionary" book -- he has one very good idea, and proceeds to apply it where it is appropriate, and then where it is not appropriate, exhaustively, stretching his argument well past the breaking point. I also tend to distrust an author's views on sacred geometry when he can write "The radius of any circle is one sixth of its circumference" with a straight face. Still, his core ideas are excellent, and the book has shed some intriguing and productive light on several symbols of special interest to me. I recommend the book if you already know Masonry and astronomy reasonably well, and can thus spot when he's gone off the rails.