One down, nine hundred ninety nine to go.

I just finished The Arthurian Chronicles. That only took a month. At this rate I will hit the one thousand mark in eighty three years. I think I need vm pick up the speed.

Actually I have another couple I should finish this week, but this may take a little longer than I thought.

Third Monday

I think I just wasted two and a half hours.

Google maps doesn’t show county lines. Or at least I haven’t figured out how to make it show the county lines, but AAA’s trip planner does. So I just spent two and a half hours trying to plot a course through all of Tennessee’s counties. Six pages of handwritten notes later (using a Pilot Varsity disposable fountain pen, it’s actually quite nice, very light) I figure I’m about two thirds of the way through, maybe a little more. The thing is though, I stared in Johnson county, what did I do that for? It would be a five or six hour trip just to start. Tennessee is a long state. I’m starting to think maybe it would be easier just to drive the Grand Canyon and back or something. Well actually that doesn’t really require any thought at all. I’ve forgetting the whole point. It’s supposed to be a challenge. Something that will take as much time to plan as to execute. I think I need a big map, some pins and thread. Google’s maps drag and drop feature would help if I already kind of had the trip roughly mapped out, but it has a limit on the number of distinct points you can have on a trip.

I didn’t walk today, but I did do another three quarters of a mile yesterday. I don’t think I’ll get a chance Thursday or Friday. I’ll have to try and do something over the weekend. I’ve also downloaded the audio version of some books from Gutenberg.org. If I can remember to bring some earbuds with me I’ll start to listen to some of them when I walk.

I’ve almost finished the Arthurian Chronicles. It’s a much different story than I expected. It’s got some of the fantasy elements, like Merlin’s prophecies and Uther doing his shape shifting thing, but it’s not the Sword in the Stone, search for the Holy Grail, Lady in the Water story, or at least it hasn’t come up yet, on the other hand Arthur has conquered all of Britain, Denmark, France, Norway and is about to march on Rome.

I started the process to cancel my Sprint account, somebody from accounts is supposed to contact me, but I’ve not heard anything. I guess the dimwits are trying to call my datacard. I probably have to break down and call them myself. Arrg, don’t they understand that I’m a social reject and don’t like to dealing with people? Make it easy on yourself and me, just use email, but nooo, everythings got to be done over the phone.

This should be a cool weekend, Dark Knight Friday night, then RollerGirls on Saturday and then the private showing at the Belcourt Midnight Saturday. I think it’s going to be West World but I may be remembering it wrong.

Till next time,