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8 July 2000 (Week 28)
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Saturday,
8 July 2000
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Another tragic racing accident. Kenny Irwin was killed in practice
yesterday at the same track and in the same turn as Adam Petty was about 5
weeks ago. There is not much else one can say.
I have a home visit to do this morning here in Winston-Salem. I am
meeting one of the local rescuers that fosters who is bringing a really nice
dog, Duke to meet the family.
We had corned beef hash for dinner last night. I will not send that
recipe to Marcia's recipe
page since all it involves is cutting up potatoes, cooking them and
adding the corned beef. We had plenty left over for another meal.
The women's tennis final is this morning but I will miss most of it to
do the home visit. I will watch the men's final tomorrow morning.
I think I will mow this afternoon. It is to be a little cooler today. I
need to get back to work on Monday after having taken last week easy. I
have a busy week on tap.
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Sunday,
9 July 2000
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It's raining in Wimbledon, I have cleaned house and am doing my diary
page later than usual. Between tennis and racing, I will not do much work
until after dinner. I can work tonight. We watched an interesting movie
on Movie Plex last night. It was a 1988 make of Jack the Ripper starring
Michael Caine. It was done like a Masterpiece or an A & E type
production. They showed it in two back to back episodes from 9 o'clock
until midnight. It was actually pretty well done. I am not sure if it just
never ran here or if we missed it. We're taping the A & E special
tonight, Longitude. It looks like it is going to be pretty good too. I
am reading Rona Jaffe's new book The Road Taken. This one is not as
good as some of her others but it is not bad for light summer reading. It
is a Forest Gump type novel where one person portrays her life through the
events of history. Rose is born in 1900 and as she and the other expanding
family members take turns narrating their chapters, they reflect the
various events from wars, medical discoveries, and political developments
to the cultures of the flappers and hippies. She is not tedious
and keeps the story moving. Some of the plot's developments are a little
contrived but not ridiculous and she writes well. Her last book Five
Women was also a generational theme and I think it was a lot better. I
only lack about fifty pages, so I may read on it while I am watching the
race. I need to read at least a couple of chapters in my Russian novel
tonight before I go to bed so I can keep moving on getting it finished. Hot
and muggy, hot and muggy. I hate to see what August will be like if this
is July weather. And, they are long range forecasting thunder storms for
Thursday again. We may need to change our golf day.
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Monday,
10 July
2000
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I have a busy week ahead getting ready to go out of town this weekend.
I have most of my materials ready for the writers conference but need to
do a few last minute things.
I have an eye doctor's appointment this afternoon, so after I go to the
gym this morning I will try to get some work done in between. I need to
get back to work on the web sites today.
I read most of yesterday afternoon, finishing my Rona Jaffe novel while
watching rain interrupted tennis and racing. At one point Bob and the dogs
were sleeping and I had a nice quiet time to read. I paid some bills
after dinner and then read on my Russian novel until bedtime.
We moved the scanner back to my office yesterday morning. I need to
finish getting things reorganized from moving things around on my desk to
make room. Bob does not have it working yet but when he does I can do all
the scanning and copying myself.
Hot and muggy, hot and muggy. It is really getting old.
I hope everyone gets their week off to a good start.
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Tuesday,
11 July
2000
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We watched Longitude last night which we taped on A & E Sunday
night. It is based on a book by the same title that come out in 1996. I
thought I was pretty good. I bit confusing at first because the story is
told by two men at the same time who lived 200 years apart. Jeremy Irons
plays the WWII character Rupert who restores the clocks invented in 1714 by a carpenter
John Harris and played by Michael Gambon, who spends his life pursuing
a dream to win a prize offered by Queen Anne "to build a purposeful and
useful instrument to measure longitude at sea." If you have not watched
it, A & E will run it often this month. It is four hours with
commercials so you might want to tape it. Or maybe you live in a household
where you can get four hours of doing anything without an interruption of
some kind. We cannot in our house. We started watching while eating dinner
at 5:45 and finished a little after 10:30 pm. How interesting that Bob and I have watched so much
British television over the years that I can recognize actors and
actresses as easily as if I am watching an American production. Change
in routine today. I am working this morning and then heading over to the
library to work for a couple of hours. I am going to lunch with one of the
staff that worked there when I was the branch head. Back home to work this
afternoon and then spinning class tonight at 6:30. I have a lot of work
to do on one portion of the Technomayhem
site that involves the various investigative methods and criminology
aspects of writing a crime novel. I hope to get those do today. |
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Wednesday,
12 July 2000
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I imagine anyone who is an avid reader has a shelf of books in their
house similar to mine. The "to be read" shelf. And, it never
gets emptied. I accumulate this row of books that I buy at the bookstore,
Hamilton Books, or library book sales that I wish to read. I can never
keep up due to being busy and reading things that I reserve at the library
that I don't want to purchase.
I also started collecting books from places I travel to. It is fun to
find books by a local author from the area or state and purchase them.
When you get home and find time to read them you can feel like you are
revisiting the place you bought them. Often times this leads to the purchase
of more books by the same author.
But, as a reader, that book shelf acts as a security blanket. I know I
always have something to go to if I am between library books or if I am
looking for something light to take along on a trip. Some of the books I
purchase for my "shelf" are paperbacks of authors that are light
fiction that I do not collect. A lot of books are non-fiction. I read a
tremendous amount of nature, rural living, and books set in areas of the
United States, Canada, and England. These are nice to pick up and read
when I am reading a long, involved fiction work and want to have two books
going at the same time. I am still reading books by an author I
discovered two years ago on our trip to Nova Scotia. The books I purchased
last year on Mackinaw Island are yet to be explored. This year we are
going to Toronto, Quebec, and Montreal, so I will have to look for
something from those places. I also buy music if I like the local artist.
I fell in love with the Rankin Family after I heard one of their tapes
while visiting Cape Breton on our Nova Scotia trip. It is another good way
to remember the places you visit by enjoying the books and music of the
area. My "to be read" shelf books eventually end up on my
review page and you get to share them too.
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Thursday,
13 July 2000
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New pictures of Malcolm and Duncan are up on my Border
Collie page. When Malcolm plays with me or if I am playing with
Duncan, he always has to have one or two toys in his mouth. Last night he
picked up three.
The one of them laying on the sofa was better when Malcolm was laying
all tucked in like Duncan. I think I got one that way on my print camera
but he sat up by the time I got the digital one ready.
Dad and I did manage to play fourteen holes yesterday. For one thing,
we had to get a late start because he had an appointment. Play was very
slow and it started to drizzle several times or just mist. On the back it
started raining hard enough to need an umbrella and we were waiting on
every hole. We finally called it quits after thirteen. It was well after
one o'clock and we had five holes left to play. But, I was glad to just
get out and play.
It is raining this morning too, so we would not have been able to play
today anyway. I had changed mornings so I could go to the store and get
ready to go out of town. A woman I worked with at Rural Hall wanted to
come by this morning and visit with me and to see Malcolm. We I was
working at Rural Hall she got a Husky at the same time I got Duncan.
I was hoping to be able to mow this afternoon but if not, I can do it
when I get back. We are eating dinner out tonight, so I may be able to mow
by this evening after we get back. Bob's brother is
coming tonight or early in the morning so we can leave early.
I started the new Susan Howatch book The High Flyer last night. I
will post a review on my favorites page.
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