Reading: Run With the Hunted - Charles Bukowski
Music: Gaelic Storm
TV/Movie: Monster In a Box - Spalding Gray
Link o' the Day: a collection of 104 mp3s and streaming audio files for the The Great Gildersleeve


Still in recovery from a wonderful little mini-vaction to Florida. And I've come home to a decent pile of work which I need to get cracking on right away.

Florida was fantastic. Warm. Upper 70s which is like heaven compared to the frigid temperatures that welcomes us when we got home. We stayed at the very pleasant Floridays resort which gave us a full kitchen, dining area, living room, two bedrooms two bathrooms, and porch. I got to have my own bathroom! (This may not seem like a big deal, but you married guys...you know what I'm talking about. Right?) So we had nice digs. There was a fine pool and even finer hot tub. We didn't do a lot with The Mouse this time around aside from a stop at Downtown Disney mostly to dine at the Rainforest Cafe--easily one of the best restaurants around. We did check out the new Sea World Aquatic park. Nothing like doing a waterpark in the middle of January. Lazy river rides past dolphins and tropical fish. Rapids. Wave pools. Slides and sun. Well worth checking out if you're in the area. And not too expensive as Orlando spots go.



And this mini-vacation afforded me a long-overdue opportunity to catch up on my reading. The morning of the flight down, I cracked open Douglas Coupland's JPod (actually, I cracked it open the previous week, but only got a few pages into it) and finished it by Saturday night. I say to Margaret, I say, "We need to get to a bookstore so I can get another book by this guy." There we are, in the middle of Orlando where there are thousands of diversions available and I want to go to a bookstore.

So we went. And I picked up The Gum Thief by Coupland. Another fantastic book and now I'm wondering when we can get to a bookstore again so I can find more. I may find myself making a trip downtown this week to get another fix. Yes, I'll be reviewing both either here or at Forces of Geek later this week. I ended up finishing The Gum Thief on Sunday night, but thankfully had also picked up a Charles Bukowski collection. (We also nabbed the paperback edition of President Obama's Audacity of Hope which I will get around to reading at some point.)

But I'm home now and there's lots of work to be done. I should be able to wrap up and send to the printer a couple of jobs. I have edits to do for a bunch of others--some minor, some extensive. My work is cut out for me and my dance card is full.

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Today's link is for Old-Time Radio fans. It's a collection of 104 mp3s and streaming audio files for the The Great Gildersleeve--one of the classics of OTR. From the website:

The Great Gildersleeve (1941-1957) was the arguable founding father of the spin-off program, as well as one of the first true situation comedies in broadcast history. It revolved around a character who had been a staple on the classic radio hit Fibber McGee and Molly, The Great Gildersleeve enjoyed its greatest period in the 1940s, when Harold Peary graduated the character from the earlier show into the sitcom and in a quartet of likeable feature films at the height of the show's popularity.

Some good stuff here.

Cheers!