First (real) night home depression...

[alexpgp]

Last night didn't count, as by the time I was finished digging out and doing a quick unload of the car into the garage, it was nearly 11 pm.

Getting used to the solitude takes more than a day, though, and even if I wasn't exactly a party animal down in Houston, I do find myself missing Galina. Of course, I'm not entirely alone. Micky has been commenting steadily on every aspect of the day's activities, Hana takes every opportunity she can to sit on any available part of me, and Shiloh is... Shiloh.

I've put the dish television on hiatus, and don't plan to resuscitate the service until the embargo runs out. That should give me plenty of time to read, when I'm not doing anything else.

In other news, the USPS web site, for some reason, no longer recognizes either my user name nor my password. This is going to make canceling the forwarding order on my mail rather difficult, I fear. I'll try another tack tomorrow.

Cheers...

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[crocotiger.livejournal.com]

What are you planning to read?

[alexpgp.livejournal.com]

Oh, all sorts of stuff. I've been reading a lot of detective novels, paying particular attention to the mechanics of the tale, but I've also got a pile of "to read" books that is getting very dusty.

Among the titles in the pile are Khrushchev Remembers, Midcentury Journey, by William Shirer (the author of The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich), a book of novels by Philip K. Dick, a biography of Leni Riefenstahl, and H.L. Mencken's The American Language.

If I get bored, there's many more to choose from. ;)

Cheers...

[crocotiger.livejournal.com]

Oh, Khrushchev Remembers. It's a must-read, I agree. But be careful, don't believe everything Khrushchev tells. He used to lie :)

The title 'The American Language' sounds compelling. I often don't understand what Americans say :(

[alexpgp.livejournal.com]

Here in the States, we have a joke that goes:

Q: How can you tell when a politician is lying?

A: The politician's lips are moving.

Cheers...