More Rambling

As we were out doing errands this afternoon, my wife and I heard David Sedaris, on This American Life, reading something he had written...a bizzare story of cat & mouse bravado in a prison setting. We only heard part of it, so it didn't make a great deal of sense, but I look forward to downloading the piece later this week when it's available. I enjoy Sedaris and his bizarre odd, dark, sense of humor.

The way the piece was staged, essentially a children's story for cynical adults, appealed to me. I will try to remember that approach for something I write in the future.

One of our stops today was the grocery store...but fortunately for me, it happens to be next to a Barnes & Noble bookstore, so I wandered about B&N while my wife shopped at Tom Thumb. I indulged myself...a copy of the Sunday New York Times ($5!) and a book on sale at $4.98,, The Darwin Awards, 3rd edition. I could spend weeks on the NYT and still not be done. But at a cost of almost $5, it's a hard sell for me. After I started reading the book reviews, I felt better, but not much better. While I appreciate the newspaper, I don't appreciate getting screwed. The edition I bought is printed in Austin...so it's not like the cost of shipping should be so hight. Oh, well, they didn't ask me what I would pay...I will pay $5 once, but probably not again. The online version should be just fine.

I'm very tired tonight, probably just a reaction to my realization that tomorrow is a workday. I will almost certainly go to bed very early...the question is whether my wife will stay in the bedroom and watch her Olympics there (I can sleep through it, easily) or will move out to the family room, where the mammoth TV resides.

My brother and his wife who live in Mexico have graciously agreed to look at houses my wife and I might consider buying. We're ready for retirement, but not old enough according to the U.S. Government, but we want to make the move anyway. My wife and I would have to borrow from the company we own, but we think we can do it...but it will be tight! I need, desparately, to win the Texas Lottery of the Powerball, or something!

Enough, for now.