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Now that my A&P test is over with, I plan on posting about my trip to California. But not now...now I intend to celebrate another 96% with some serious gaming (The Last Remnant).

Oh, and just to explain my previous post (in case you don't regularly visiting my book sidebar), I read Watchmen. It was my first experience with a graphic novel - took me a while to get used to that kind of format. Very different than regular books!

"Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?"

travel

I'm quite the traveler this month, compared to my norm...I spent the latter half of last week in Austin, playing with Lisa, Miles, and Lyla and tomorrow I'm off to California!

Aside from the weather, Austin was great. Lisa and I had both had visions of walks, trips to the playground, and things like that, but it was cold and raining the whole time I was there. Sheesh. So we watched lots of TV and movies. I held baby Lyla a lot. It was pretty great. She enjoyed laying on my chest as I reclined, and we spent a lot of time in that position.

I helped give Lyla her first bottle!

Book

(Penny Arcade)

So true...
I have been enjoying many Book lately. I was working my way through a variety of fantasy and non-fiction and got majorly sucked into Into Thin Air by Jon Krakauer. I'd read Into the Wild (and watched the movie) and so I thought I'd give the other book a try. That set off a cascade of Mt. Everest-related books and DVDs in rapid succession. I watched season one (and I am 6/8 through season 2) of Everest: Beyond the Limit by the Discovery Channel, the Everest IMAX movie, and read another couple Everest books. Very quickly. If you need a reason to not climb Mt. Everest, read High Crimes: The Fate of Everest in an Age of Greed. Another book that I thought was great was The Center Cannot Hold: My Journey Through Madness by Elyn R. Saks. It will make you VERY glad that you do not have schizophrenia! It is amazing what she has accomplished in her life despite intense psychotic episodes (example: while having an episode, she thinks she can and has killed thousands of people with her thoughts). It was well-written and very interesting.

I'm going to Austin on Wednesday to spend time with Cousin Lisa and the kiddos - yay!

Correlation

Today's xkcd tickled me.

On mouse-over: Correlation doesn't imply causation, but it does waggle its eyebrows suggestively and gesture furtively while mouthing 'look over there'.