Virgil

Antiquarian had a great set of personal literary preferences. I'm going to take her ten question format and answer it for my preferences.

1. One book that changed your life: Like Antiquarian, I can't say that any one book changed my life. Lots of books have expanded my thinking, openned my vision. Certainly Shakespeare. Hamlet, King Lear, McBeth, Othello, Antony and Cleopatra. The Gospels, Virginia Woolf's To The Lighthouse, Conrad's Heart of Darkness, DH Lawrence's The Rainbow, ...

My wife and I were in Santa Barbara in California over the summer on vacation. We went to the zoo there and I took some pictures. Here are a few for your pleasure.







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Shalot inspired me to tell you my exercise work out routine. First there are a couple of principles I believe in for complete fitness. One is the 3-2-1 principle. Every workout should include cardio, strength, and abdominal exercises, and they should be structured to a ratio of 3 for cardio, 2 for strength, and 1 for abs. So for a one hour routine you can figure 30 minutes of cardio, 20 minutes of strength, and 10 minutes of abs. Another principle is exercising all three levels in a workout: ...

It was a tough, exhausting week, but the bottom line (we’re taught to provide the bottom line up front in a presentation ) is everything worked well.

I was juggling three things this week, and living on caffeine to help me manage them. You know about my mother’s hip replacement. That is going great. On Thursday she was discharged from the hospital to a rehab facility. On the weekend I had to drive to my sister’s house in Ohio for my niece’s confirmation. And on Monday I had ...

Well she had the operation Monday. Sunday night when I went over, she was still busy doing things around the house and she was packing a suitcase, which I thought was very odd. It was like she was going away, which she was I guess. Between the hip replacement operation and the rehab she may be gone almost a month. Nonetheless, it's not like she's going miles away. I could get stuff at the house and bring it over. But it's packed and it's in the trunk of my car.

She was fairly ...