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In my last post, I was in the process of finishing up The Prime Minister by Anthony Trollope. Trollope is a very Victorian writer in that romance is conducted in very formal ways. Gentlemen call on young ladies in the presence of another adult, typically an adult female. The bulk of the action takes place among the peerage, or people of station, and very little of it engages the general unwashed masses. The stories are quaint and entertaining.

The next novel on my list was Germinal ...

Great Expectations had a successful run and was finished with great satisfaction. David Copperfield was considered as that too was a High School experience but rejected simply because I remembered it fairly well whereas G E shall we say had more action/suspense to it. The Old Curiousity House was briefly studied but the internet gave away the ending so that died aborning.

In the past year or so I have been on another chatroom where the atmosphere is rather freewheeling and their ...

Ah this is kind of long. Don't say I didn't warn you.
It'll be Mother's day in two weeks. I've had a few plans for Mother's day that haven't exactly worked out so far.

Sometime last year (unfortunately after the day itself) I had the idea of making a kind if photo album card with pictures of us together from the earliest possible point onwards.
Eh that's not easy. Once I passed a certain age I refused to be in pictures and by that time it's not like we had occasion ...

[COLOR=white]Well, as I said, I'm home now. I didn't have a good trip. Not really. It wasn't terribly awful; except in a sense it was. The main problem. . . well, I don't know if I should talk about it, but it's my mom. . . she isn't doing terribly; in fact she just got a raise and nice bonus at work, which is good. The only problem is that she isn't taking care of herself like she should. She's very intelligent and has a lot of good qualities, but in this I'm sad to see her this way. She's had ...

I was sitting on my computer last night (and as some of you may recall the battery on my laptop had permanently died and I haven't got around to replacing it yet) so the computer has to be plugged in to use, but the plug is kind of touchy so it can easily get knocked loose. I was on the couch and when I moved to change positions the plug came loose and I lost power, now this is not the first time this has happened, and usually it is no big deal. I plug it back in and turn it on when this message ...