Nilknarf News

I couldn't hardly get out of bed this morning. I'm not quite bad enough to use the cane, but pretty close. And here last night I thought that I was gonna be OK.

So the day has been spent sitting in front of either the TV or the computer. I have been busy, though, downloading enough e-books to last me until I die, probably... and there are many more where those came from... I'm in hog heaven, anticipating all of the reading that I'll get to do.

I now have about 200 e-books with a total file size of about 65MB... this is about half of the size of the chip that I got with the PDA.

I have read about half of Tom Sawyer today. What an entertaining writer! I haven't actually read Tom Sawyer but once when I was a kid of about 10... I liked Huckleberry Finn much better, I think that I read that one about ten times.

And I was kinda surprised at how comfortable it is to read on the PDA. Not like reading on-screen, which is not really comfortable at all, and requires a lot of concentration, for me at least. Acres and acres of words without breaks is horrible. HTML is pretty bad, but that damned Adobe Reader... man, I hate those documents! That is just a completely unnatural way to read!

Oddly enough, I usta always have my nose in a book, up until about the time that I got my first computer. Go figger, heh.

What I read, almost exclusively, was science fiction. By the time that I got married the first time, I had read every science fiction book in the Topeka Public Library at least once. And I also joined the Science Fiction Book Club, and I read about everything that they offered. I would also devour two monthly publications, Asimov's and Fantasy & Science Fiction. I still have most of the magazine collection, but I did give most of the book club books away, and I would give the magazines away too if I could find somebody that wanted them.

My adventures with mainstream literature were pretty shaky; I wouldn't read anything unless somebody that know me made a recommendation... and even then, most of the time I was disappointed.

So, the point is... I don't know. Recommend some PD books for me, I guess. Or even some non-PF books if you want, I can actually afford to buy a few books, I guess.

Karen is pretty tired out from her vacation... well, if taking care of Lacee for a week is a vacation... scratch that, for Karen it is. Anyhoo, she's got about as much energy and ambition as I do today.

And Callie got out for the first time since last Monday... she just came back in through my window. She still hates me.

Karen isn't as good as I am in keeping her in... Callie is pretty sneaky, and absolutely single-minded about what she wants.

O'yeah, and mean. I think that she tries to intimidate Karen, and it works better on her than it does me.

Anyway, I spent quite a bit of time getting all of the contacts up to date and into the PDA, Karen had a big bunch of them still in her manual address books.

One thing that I noticed when I was doing that... our physician, our dentist and our vet are all named Mike or some variant.

I think that this PDA is probably the best buy that I've made recently, I can see it making my life a whole bunch easier. And funner, too! One of the reasons that I wanted it was that I would need it when we start traveling, and I made note of the fact that every really organized person that I know has one. Not that I really have any hopes of becoming organized, I'm just sayin'....