It's been slightly over a year since the heart surgery, and I'm still here. I still need to lose weight, though, and I probably need to be considerably more social than I am. There's a lot of things that need to be done, such as cleaning the apartment, moving things around, keeping up with my reading, and maybe watching some of the video backlog ( ( Read more... )

My new glasses arrived today, which makes me very happy. As it doubtless should, given that this is my first pairs of glasses I've had in over a decade, thanks to the storied history of my eyes ( Read more... )

I actually pulled off Mount TBR last year (as documented on Goodreads), and even got beyond my stated goal of summiting Everest at one hundred books. The irony of this particular moment was that I celebrated it by promptly announced that, damn it all, I'd go for the Olympus level, which is 150+. With great cheer, I announced the next two books in ( Read more... )

Yes, not content with having flubbed Mount TBR 2012 in a weird and exhilarating way, I'm going to make another try at it. This really is like Brian Blessed making his attempts at summiting Everest, so in honour of that I'm going with the Mt. Everest level (100 books), taking along half a dozen Sherpas, a large tent, and a bloody great tank of ( Read more... )

Time for the update of my Mount TBR effort. As you'll see, the original list isn't as dented as it should be, and there are yet more additions of more recent vintage. The eyes continue to be an issue, so there's been a continued dependence on audiobooks, which now constitute the greater part of my purchases at the book sales, and the larger part of ( Read more... )

I keep trying to get up Everest here, but the visual impairment is definitely hampering me when it comes to the dead trees. There's no progress on the glasses front, mainly because everything got thrown into disarray when I went temporarily blind in the left eye. Amaurosis fugax, they say, and now the doctors are trying to figure out why it ( Read more... )

Progress up the old slopes has been somewhat screwed up lately by dint of my eyes going all over the place -- see them run! -- with the multiple surgeries and my right eye being pretty much uncorrected while the left eye heals again (I need a monocle. And a bowler hat. And a budgie. And an eye patch. Arrrr....) As a consequence of the current ( Read more... )

Life plods on, pretty much absent updates here from me. Things change, things shift, and apparently I've hit that stage of grief where everything pisses me off...especially when it's stuff severe enough to piss off anyoneI need to buy a new cane, as I lost my really good cane when someone half-inched it out of a grocery cart at Frys (no kidding; it ( Read more... )

And now, the entire list in one place, with annotations ( Read more... )

The beginning of my Mount TBR challenge.

And the most recent expansion of the list.

It just keeps going and going, this effort, and I'm quite enjoying it. I'm finding places to read the short story collections like Lawrence Block's Sometimes You Get The Bear, and even the poetry collections such as raúlrsalinas' Red Arc. I'm finding myself less ( Read more... )