Have had a very quiet couple of days. Watched some movies and television, finished a couple books. It's just nice not having to go to work. It's the only "vacation" i take where i'm not actually going anywhere or doing anything specific. My nephew gave me an iPod dock/speaker/clock and I got that all hooked up and working and it sounds great. I'm ( Read more... )

Three weeks from today, Christmas will be over! Eek ( Read more... )

Good grief ( Read more... )

And .... breathe ( Read more... )

I've had my EDO today and i've slept in a bit, had a very quiet day. It's dark and foggy out and not really condusive to a lot of energy ( Read more... )

( just catching up on 2012 books )

By this time last year, i'd read 58 books. I'm almost up to 80! There were two that i didn't finish and there were one or two handsful of short quick reads.
( 2012 book update )

I read a book last month, Jane Austen Ruined My Life by Beth Patillo (see below). It was a fun, light, chicklit type of thing. I'm now reading The Dashwood Sisters Tell All by the same author. Both books are modern day with the JA themes. This one, clearly, uses Sense and Sensibility as influence and is about two very opposite sisters. It must be ( Read more... )

Long weekend coming up, "Natal Day" on Monday. There's events all weekend to celebrate the founding of Halifax and Dartmouth though most of them are family oriented with various concerts and music by bands I'm not that bothered with. No real plans but i might try to take in an exhibit in the natural history musuem, they've got about 40 costumes ( Read more... )

Last year i had to get my Kobo replaced and they replaced it with a Touch version. I liked it but i did find that it was overly sensitive and often flipped two "pages" at a time which could be annoying. The other day, i was reading about an Operating System upgrade with changes they made to it and saw comments on a blog post that a lot of people ( Read more... )