Pictures of us

At at TT Owners brunch in Annapolis, 2000
Freezing our tails off in Iceland, 2001
Black Forest folk customes, Halloween 2003
Getting instructions at the Calgary Olympic Bobsled Run, Feb 2006
Dole Pineapple plantation, Oahu, Hawai'i, Feb 2007

A neighborhood book club started late 2005. Here's what we've read so far...

  2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010
[Jan] n/a Never Have Your Dog Stuffed Maisie Dobbs The Rebel Angels Gulliver's Travels The Unthinkable
[Feb] n/a The Kite Runner (cancelled) Northanger Abbey The ShackThe Help
[Mar] n/a Nightfall The Adventures of Kavalier and Clay Winnie The Pooh/The Tao of Pooh Beloved The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo
[Apr] n/a Saving Fish From Drowning Tulipomania Eat, Pray, Love (delayed) The Glass Room
[May] n/a The Mermaid Chair The Left Hand of Darkness Fahrenheit 451 Water For Elephants
[Jun] n/a Blink Stolen Lives The Reluctant Tuscan The Big Over Easy
[Jul] n/a (none) The Photograph (none) (none)
[Aug] n/a Pope Joan (none) The Chinese Bell Murders The Piano Tuner
[Sep] Middlesex Undomestic Goddess Sidetracked Reading Lolita in Tehran Snow Flower and the Secret Fan
[Oct] The Secret Life of Bees Treasure Island Frankenstein Loving FrankThe Yiddish Policemen's Union
[Nov] The Other Boleyn Girl Fall On Your Knees The Stupidest Angel People of the Book(none)
[Dec] (none) (none) (none) (none)The Reader

Books I've read this year - 2010

  1. The Unthinkable by Amanda Ripley
  2. Lamentation by Ken Scholes
  3. After The Prophet by Lesley Hazleton
  4. Judge Sn Goes Golfing by John Scalzi (short story)
  5. Blindsight by Peter Watts
  6. Motherless by Jim Adam (end of Jan 2010)
  7. The Help by Kathryn Stockett
  8. The City and The City by China Mielville
  9. The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo by Stieg Larsson (end of Feb 2010)

On the nightstand:
Oryx and Crake by Margaret Atwood
Gastonia 1929: The Story of the Loray Mill Strike by John A. Salmond
The Queen's Dollmaker by Christina Trent
The Spark by Chris Downie

Books read in 2007 - click here
Books read in 2008 - click here
Books read in 2009 - click here

Amusing tidbits

According to the Cadaver Calculator, my dead body is worth $5,675 in 2009 (it was worth $5,775 in 2008).

The 15 countries I have visited:

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