Reading

First off, and apropos of nothing: I'm not limping, at the moment. I limped this morning (badly, in fact; so much that when I went down on one knee at church to pick up a dropped pen, I had to be helped back up; boy, did I like that), and I'm sure I will, again, but at the moment, after about 90 minutes of dense sleep, I got up and just - walked. It was amazing. I feel an ache right now, but still -- wow.

Second, I'm enjoying Dead Certain. I'm barely ten pages into it, and perhaps my enthusiasm for it will wane, but so far, I'm liking it. I'm not sure if its because it is the first 'serious' book I've read in a very long time, or because, despite years of evidence to the contrary, I still believe that the truth can be found in books (but it hez to be easy to read books with only a few big words; eleemosynary is as big as I can get, and even then, I a) am not really sure of how to pronounce it, and b) always have to stop and think now what does that word mean, again?), so, thinking that, I think Perhaps this will tell me what the freakin' hell Bush is all about. And you know, in a way, its doing that. So, I'm liking it.

I'm also liking reading the Business section of todays Times, where, once again, I see references to 'as the economy slows and perhaps slides deeper into a recession that may already be under way...'. I love concepts like that. We ain't saying its happening, but if it is, its getting worse. Okay. Thanks for the clarification.

And I want to read the Times Magazine article on separate but equal education for boys and girls. Which, I think, is probably a good idea... sometimes.

So thats what I'm up to, at the moment.

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Update:

We just took a walk. It was, perhaps, a whole eighth of a mile, total. I got out of breath half way through, and I started limping noticably. But we rested, and then we came back. Still not up to the tango, but this is a good thing.