12:43 pm-Taking a quick break-working through the radical PA polish. Gonna be a bit o’ TP tonight. Reading Harry Plopper-2/3 done. Yesterday-finished up work, home-the family was still at the OC Fair-started getting ready for bed, made dinner, kids to bed, dinner, Harry Plopper. Both boys loped, up, work, and here we are. A bridge collapsed in Minnesota. Our infrastructure is collapsing in slow motion. Guess why? The engineering society gives the US infrastructure a D. I read a thing: “They’d prefer to be emirs and kings running a shambling catastrophe of a country than moderately rich men in Sweden.” (Jonathan Schwartz). I also read that U.S. immigration to Canada is up 100% since Bush took over…
4:38 pm-Break from PA stuff-another polish is done. Finished Plopper. Sweet ending, exciting climactic battle. Just read that the collapsed bridge was noted in 1990 as having problems. 17 years.
Listening to: DN!, Rage, Puccini, Gaden Shartse Monks, R.E.M., Alastair Galbraith, Eno (yummy bloopy from IV), Bardo Thodol, Tool (I played the grooves off of this one), Kronos Quartet, twice, Master Musicians of Jajouka, Ozomatli, Gentle Giant, Glass
Page 23, Sentence 5: “Greeting me in the hallway of her cozy home, she leads me straight into the kitchen for a cup of tea, a slice of pound cake and, it goes without saying, a steaming vat of the freshest gossip.” Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows