Books:
Well, the reading of traditionally published fiction and non-fiction was not great.  Librarything.com tells me that I read 42 books, including DNFs.  Favorite was The Martian.  Actually, I think I need to up the count to 43, because Taylor Fitzpatrick's You Could Make A Life was self-published in December; I originally read it as original ( Read more... )

I love my family...but sometimes I don't *like* some them very much.  Or rather, I don't care for their behavior ( Read more... )

So I went to work on Monday and knew that Freddie Gray's funeral was going to be a big deal at home, but it hadn't occurred to me (naively) that there would be unrest following it.  I was in an all day meeting; when we stopped for breaks, I was busy checking on work things and didn't stop to check headlines.  After 5pm, I checked the front page of ( Read more... )