I heard Conan O Brien is getting the shaft. I haven't watched his show since he switched to an earlier time.
A friend and I explored Bainbridge Island today. We took a ferry from Seattle mainland. We ate breakfast at Pegasus Coffee and I had eggs with spinach and it was good. We walked along Winslow Way, a strip of shops and cute stores. Later in the afternoon, lunch at Fay Bainbridge State Park followed by ice cream at Mora's.
I saw my first hockey game Friday night. Seattle Thunderbirds, last in the league. There was a fight so it made up for the loss.
No luck on buying a car yet.
The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Diaz. Pulitzer Prize winner from 2008. Good writing. Follows a recent trend in fiction in eliminating quotation marks around speech. It flows better, I think.
Would it be terribly pretentious to read all of the last decades Pulitzer Prize winners in fiction?
I've read the winner from 2001 (The Adventures of Kavalier and Clay) but the winner from 2005 is Marilynne Robinson's Gilead. I read her novel Home this year and hated it. Slow, tedious and uneventful.
I once heard a well-known Christian writer say every Christian should read a book on logic. I bought one. Being Logical: A Guide to Good Thinking. In my undergrad I took a logic course and found that advanced logic can actually be quite difficult. It gets mathematical.
In Tully's Coffee in downtown Ballard I found origami dragons and gorillas. Really intricate, tiny folds. The best I can do is a crane and I need the book for it. I've tried a T-Rex but his jaw always ends up looking like a fork.
STILL haven't seen Avatar! It's now the 2nd highest grossing movie ever. Right behind Titanic and both are directed by James Cameron.
Jack and Coke is a relaxing drink.
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