Keeping in touch

Spoke to Hubby this morning. His blackbelt classes in Airspeed (a sort of military version of Six Sigma) are going well, he's absolutely elated at the challenge. He sounded about a decade younger as he breezed through a description of yesterday and today. He's not crazy about VA, but he's having a lot of fun learning and hanging out with his counterparts at other bases.

Folks are very kindly asking me how I'm doing, which is very sweet and very unnecessary. For my part, I'm reading a lot, studying for tonight's quiz, making cookies and dog biscuits, sleeping too much, taking long baths accompanied by classical music and just considering it a week-long retreat.

Wednesday I'll most likely go to the mainland to do more copying, thanks to a kind offer of a ride on the mainland side of the ferry from Wastedmouthful.

I'm reading a fabulous book at the moment, "The Rule of Four" by Ian Caldwell & Dustin Thomason. It combines several of my favorite things: narrative story-telling, KBLH, ciphers and cryptology, art, classic literature, subplots, old traditions of a subculture (in this case, Princeton), friendship, group dynamics, hidden subterranean passages and a really good mystery within a puzzle.

( Book Summary )