Dec 26, 2007 20:33
...more importantly, so does Southwest Airlines, though our flight was delayed a bit. I finished the book I was reading while waiting to board. (The Looking Glass War by Frank Beddor. I wanted to like it more than I did, but to be fair, the book was in a bit of a Catch-22 with me as a reader. I had to read it because I'm such a long-time fan of Alice in Wonderland, but because I am such a fan, it was almost certain that the book wouldn't live up to its source material. My favorite character by far was Hatter Madigan, the head of the Millinery, the elite bodyguard of the queen of Wonderland. With a top hat that collapses into a fearsome throwing weapon. Yeah. I will probably pick up the sequel just to see how things play out.)
I spent Christmas hiking in Torrey Pines State Park and reading Irrational Exuberance by Robert Shiller. Today my legs are sore, and I still don't understand the stock market. (The primary lesson I'm tempted to draw from Shiller is that no one else understands the stock market either. Except maybe my father-in-law.)
I arrived home to discover a package containing much audio drama goodness: Blake's 7: Traitor, Blake's 7: Liberator, The Adventures of Luther Arkwright, Judge Dredd: Wanted: Dredd or Alive, and Strontium Dog: Down to Earth. Now I just have to decide what to listen to first.
big finish,
books,
travel,
listening,
life,
what i'm reading