Tuesday 27 July 1999
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Pic of the day: This is no spring chicken, but the cover of a paperback
that has been in my bookshelf for a long long time. I rarely reread,
but rather rely on remembering. There are a few of my books, though,
that I could like to visit again. And Brian Aldiss' Helliconia trilogy
comes pretty near the top. There is some tacked-on pseudo-new-age
stuff, but it is not a lot, and mostly well isolated from the story.
Set in a similar but different world, the humans are as human as they
come, though nature is different and full of delightful surprises.
This is the kind of story that I would have liked to write myself.
If I could.
There's a "burb" - an online community - for journal writers over 30. It is called No Spring Chicken. I'm not so sure about that. I mean, it's a nice idea and all. But I'm not so sure that a 30 year old isn't a spring chicken. Now, at 40, I am most definitely not a spring chicken.
-At 30, my heart would still beat faster after ascending the stairs
to the fourth floor. But I would not stop and wonder if it would give
out or if it would pull me through. Spring chicken.
In the past ten years, I've lost and gained quite a lot. Perhaps I have
lost more than I found, but then again, what I lost was never mine to
begin with; I had borrowed it and did not know. Now I wonder: If I
ever reach the glorious age of fifty, will I look back ten years again
and think: "How young and inexperienced I was when I was forty!" ??
On a much fluffier note, I was out yesterday looking for a stereo that had CD and MiniDisc player. It's been how long? three years? since MD became available in quantity. And yet almost all of the stereos had the inferior cassette drive instead of MD. Whyever would anybody record anything to cassette now that you can get much better quality, faster access and instant replay with MiniDisc? *boggle* There was a cute little Sony home stereo, but no way am I paying $625 for that. The price will come down sooner or later. It is worth $500 (kr 4000). Not suited for very loud music, but then again I'm not in the business of bringing walls down. Not in the literal sense. |
Sick today. Wish I had known before I set the alarm clock last night
that I was not going to work today... :)
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