View From the Bushes

I was up until around 1:00 am working on some stuff, so yes, once again I did not bike to work. But today rather than being ashamed, I'm mostly just tired. The three-day weekend was nice. I'm thinking of making every weekend in June a three-day weekend, but I haven't decided for sure yet. Part of the reason is that I'm going to Origins at the end of the month and I have a big presentation I'm preparing, so I need all the time I can get. Plus there's just something about realizing on Sunday night that in fact you don't have to go to work tomorrow.

I started Seabiscuit over the weekend. Once a year my wife's book club invites the men, and this is the book we're reading. The club meets on the 9th and my wife still has to read it, so I need to be done by Sunday. To choose Seabiscuit they took nominations and then had a vote. I think Seabiscuit was the only thing I really didn't want to read (mostly because it doesn't seem like a book-club kind of book), so of course that's what we ended up with. So far it's not bad, but the first impression was horrible.

One of the central marketing hooks is that Seabiscuit was the top newsmaker of 1938. I'm sure you've probably heard this claim even if you haven't read the book. Right off the bat that statement strikes me as being incorrect, so of course I wander over to Snopes and sure enough, it's untrue, and not in an "untrue, but you really have to dig to find that out" sense, but more of an "any idiot can tell that's not true" sense. It's hard to over-emphasize how much this distortion of the facts annoys me. I'm trying not to let it cloud my reading of the book, but we'll have to see.

Yawning
Ross