View From the Bushes

Well it's Friday, and I'm not looking forward to the weekend as much as I normally would. You see the town that I live in does a spring (and fall) garbage pick-up. Take your trees, your old mattresses, your junk of every stripe and set it out on the curb. It's nice, because then you don't have to make a trip to the dump. However, they are on a schedule, so if I don't get my crap out on the curb tomorrow it won't get picked up, so that's why I'm approaching the weekend with a certain amount of dread, because I'm lazy.

I did manage to finish Life of Pi today (this Review is pretty close to what I thought). It was on a page/day basis a considerably faster read than Undaunted Courage, though that's hardly surprising; word count (though not page wise), it was considerably shorter. Fiction always reads faster (at least for me) than history and biographies and such, and finally I think I'm getting back into the groove, which I think is probably a good thing. Now I just have to decide what to read next. I probably should dig out some old classic that I've never read, like Ulysses or War and Peace or maybe Moby Dick which has a story of it's own, but that will probably have to wait for another time.

One final humorous story, about a Japanese tattoo artist who got tired of putting Japanese characters on college students who didn't know what they meant. Taking advantage of this fact to express his anger he started putting characters that meant something entirely different, like prostitute instead of princess. He defends himself by claiming to provide a public service by labeling all the stupid people. A great idea; I just wish he labeled them in a language I could understand so I could take advantage of the label and avoid those people. I mean how hard is it to look up some characters before they're permanently inked into your skin?

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Ross