Coming up to the end of a particularly long week, I’m looking forward to a busy weekend. Tonight Anne and I are going to the Opera to see Madame Butterfly. It’s not my favorite opera, but should be a nice break nonetheless. Tomorrow the Usual Suspects are getting together at Molly’s for dinner… and on […]
A nice weekend. Finally finished playing Europa Universalis yesterday (the last sixty years of the game were really boring because I exhausted the tech tree and had pretty much unlimited cash so I bought friends all over, conquered India, and also built a micro-empire north of China running west all the way to the Black […]
The ongoing battle vs. the clothes moths continues. A setback this week: I didn’t appreciate that the bug spray people would insist on the closets being fully emptied. They were far from fully empty: I have big closets with lots of stuff in them. Curses. So anyway, they’re going to come back on April 1st […]
Just a quick reminder, in case you haven’t looked at the book review section of this site recently. There hasn’t been a lot of activity here recently, but yes, I do occasionally get time to finish a book. If you follow any of the links on the bookwork section through to amazon.ca, anything you buy […]
Not a fun read, but my history kick recently took me through Stalingrad by Anthony Beevor. I started off by re-reading Barbara Tuckman’s The Guns of August to get into the mood — Tuckman’s remains the premier book in this genre — and in comparison, I found Stalingrad to be slower and to be missing […]