11-14-2022, 01:00 AM
Checking in. I'm still in denial, still not being hard-core about life-prolonging measures, oh well
eppie and BigAssPlants -- no, I guess I meant Tall trees. We do have a few hundreds-years-old oaks around here, so I don't feel that I have need in the Wide category. Robin Hood neither. Thanks anyway! But... I think sitting in any real forest, without machine noise or human noise, is great. Maybe not in winter, unless there's still birds. And it turns out, I have already been to see the corpse flower! But I don't remember it because I don't remember any bad smell. We must have gone late in its blooming or something.
Bucket list-- some Winter elements in the bucket list. I'm thinking I'll be reading, and I want to laugh as much as possible. So I think I am going to re-read and read the entire Discworld series (that's Terry Pratchett, but I think you all know that). There's a couple I haven't read, but I haven't read any for a while so I want to read them in a good reading order. The last one I read, I found I wasn't really an Igor fan.) I think I will also re-read Catch-22. I don't know if there's much else worth re-reading. I toyed with reading LotR again, but, no, I've read it enough. Maybe The Hobbit. Currently I'm reading Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell by Susanna Clarke, which is entertaining and I may read another book by her. I thought of Hitchhiker's but I think I remember everything well enough that it wouldn't be worth it. As for non-fiction, I need to finish the Twain/Clemons autobiography.
Distraction -- I am majorly annoyed when people vilify Huckleberry Finn by saying that Twain "used" the n-word four hundred eleventy fourteen times. His characters used the n-word; I don't think the narrator does (except Huck.) If the characters didn't use it, their language would not have been authentic for that place and time. Sheesh. Huck is the narrator of the book, and he is no exception. Anyway, people think of it as an adventures book (like Tom Sawyer) but ultimately it is an anti-slavery book. Maybe I'll re-read this and argue this some more. Maybe not. While I think the n-word is reason that HF should not be assigned when it will be discussed aloud, there should not be any reason to remove it from libraries. But modern censorship is such a huge issue these days, I probably should just not do it.
Back to winter bucket -- Last winter I meant to do genealogy but I didn't do much. By this I mean online research, I'm not going to courthouses and archives and whatnot. No one else in the family is much interested, so I don't have much incentive.
I also think about playing CD and D2, and it'd be fun. But CD would be just to find ObZod, which is both not guaranteed and a big so what. I'll have to think more about later versions of D. Have I already said this? Sorry.
-V
eppie and BigAssPlants -- no, I guess I meant Tall trees. We do have a few hundreds-years-old oaks around here, so I don't feel that I have need in the Wide category. Robin Hood neither. Thanks anyway! But... I think sitting in any real forest, without machine noise or human noise, is great. Maybe not in winter, unless there's still birds. And it turns out, I have already been to see the corpse flower! But I don't remember it because I don't remember any bad smell. We must have gone late in its blooming or something.
Bucket list-- some Winter elements in the bucket list. I'm thinking I'll be reading, and I want to laugh as much as possible. So I think I am going to re-read and read the entire Discworld series (that's Terry Pratchett, but I think you all know that). There's a couple I haven't read, but I haven't read any for a while so I want to read them in a good reading order. The last one I read, I found I wasn't really an Igor fan.) I think I will also re-read Catch-22. I don't know if there's much else worth re-reading. I toyed with reading LotR again, but, no, I've read it enough. Maybe The Hobbit. Currently I'm reading Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell by Susanna Clarke, which is entertaining and I may read another book by her. I thought of Hitchhiker's but I think I remember everything well enough that it wouldn't be worth it. As for non-fiction, I need to finish the Twain/Clemons autobiography.
Distraction -- I am majorly annoyed when people vilify Huckleberry Finn by saying that Twain "used" the n-word four hundred eleventy fourteen times. His characters used the n-word; I don't think the narrator does (except Huck.) If the characters didn't use it, their language would not have been authentic for that place and time. Sheesh. Huck is the narrator of the book, and he is no exception. Anyway, people think of it as an adventures book (like Tom Sawyer) but ultimately it is an anti-slavery book. Maybe I'll re-read this and argue this some more. Maybe not. While I think the n-word is reason that HF should not be assigned when it will be discussed aloud, there should not be any reason to remove it from libraries. But modern censorship is such a huge issue these days, I probably should just not do it.
Back to winter bucket -- Last winter I meant to do genealogy but I didn't do much. By this I mean online research, I'm not going to courthouses and archives and whatnot. No one else in the family is much interested, so I don't have much incentive.
I also think about playing CD and D2, and it'd be fun. But CD would be just to find ObZod, which is both not guaranteed and a big so what. I'll have to think more about later versions of D. Have I already said this? Sorry.
-V