Checking In

Ay, it's been too long since I really wrote anything. Been busy, trip to Chicago, and was sick this week.

I meant to blog a while ago that I found the used bookstore and went nuts, picking up copies of Neal Stephenson's Cryptonomicon and Snow Crash, the "uncut" version of Heinlein's Stranger in a Strange Land (though I assume, like most things, that restoring material makes it a little less cohesive), a copy of Edwin A. Abbott's Flatland and three Bradbury short story collections. I also found the comic store on the way home and picked up Alan Moore's From Hell and The Essential Harlan Ellison. This should keep me busy fora while. I have now finished Snow Crash which I really liked, although like most not-quite-perfect sci-fi books it invents a world it can't quite wrap up. But it's quite the interesting world he's conjured up.

We got sent home early from work due to the 3-5 inches of snow. Since I've been sick and not sleeping well, I just came home and crashed. Horray to two-hour naps. Schools didn't even open today, having been canceled before the snow started. Wusses.