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Why not "Music Tagged" instead?

I was "Book Tagged" by Don, on June 20th.

OKAY ... nevermind that it's now July and I'm just now getting around to responding. What's happened since June 20th? Well, Rachel and I have suffered from food poisoning (which was NOT fun). Alex was spared, thank God. Rachel has completed her first year of nursing studies at the University of Alberta, here in Edmonton. She had a final exam on the 25th, which meant that I had to watch the Oop, while she studied. Alex finished up day-care on the 28th. The dryer went out and one day, Rachel had to pull the clothes in off the line 3 times (as it changed from a sunny day to a dark, cloudy and rainy day). We use the line a lot, but understand how convenient a clothes dryer is on cloudy days! And now, we're getting ready to embark on a month-long summer holiday.

Modern life with a 1.8 year-old just seems to happen at warp speed.

Why couldn't I be music tagged instead? (I'm in the midst of ripping all our CD's onto the computer, for play throughout the house on our home network). I'd MUCH rather talk about that!

I haven't worked since 1999 and one of the things that I swore I was going to do when I wasn't working ... READ.

Hmmm. So what happened?

Alex happened, for one. Nothing puts the skids on reading more than an infant! (But thankfully, I've gotten into blogging, otherwise my admitted read would have to be, "Potty Training for Dummies"!)

It doesn't help that I'm a voracious reader. I'm not like Rachel, who can read for 20 minutes, put the book down for a day and then read another 20 minutes sometime later. Nope. I start ... I read ... I finish. Even if it means staying up till 3 o'clock in the morning. (Just more evidence that I'm an obsessive-compulsive person). Such a reading style isn't conducive to a happy marriage, or kids, for that matter.

Last Thing I Read

No real excitement here, since I got going with b2evolution and our own Internet hosting service in January ... I've been involved in all things "computing". My last read: "The Zen of CSS Design" by David Shea and Molly Holzschlag. (Not your normal 'who-dunnit'!)

Total Books We Own

Funny time for this question, as Don has caught us after a move to Canada from the United States, a hike from Mexico to Canada along the Pacific Crest Trail and ... well ... a grand total of SIX moves since 2000 - over one a year. Anybody that has moved knows how HEAVY books are!

I used to want a library ... now I just want to walk erect when I'm 75 years old! We own 1/10th the number of books we owned in 1999, maybe 120 volumes in total. It was tough giving away my University geology books (and I must admit that I ended up going back to retrieve a few). Still ... our new policy: If we haven't handled it in a year's time ... off to donation. GOD that hurts!

Last Book I Bought

EASY. Also the last one I read.