Catching Up

I thought that I should check in. For a guy who often posts daily, I think I have only blogged once in the past week. It's odd because I sometimes have five posts waiting in the queue, but it has now been five days since I blogged at all.

At least partially, it must be the time of year. The snow is gone, but it was been wintry cold lately. We've had a few quick, chilly, and uninspiring walks in the neighbourhood in stiff breezes. I haven't usually bothered to even port my little camera. 

We have had one more birthday breakfast, this one with B&B, since I posted last, but nobody thought to take pictures. However, today is a little nicer, so I think Sue wants to walk by the back bridges to capture a photo that implies sound by using the rushing whitewater. I think I may even relent and take my big camera.

Speaking of Sue, today is her actual birthday. Sha and the kids will come by for a pizza supper so no one has to cook or clean up messes. I suppose pizza isn't all that special, but we've had a few special outings already. We would probably get Chinese takeout, but it is Monday, and we are in a town, and smalltown shops and restaurants do tend to be closed.

I have passed quite a bit of time reading Rhys Dylan's, DCI Evan Warlow's, series. I scored the initial volume, The Engine House, as a freebie and liked it well enough that I have since ordered and read the next four installments. So far, they have remained fairly inexpensive, but I imagine that will change as I get to the more recent of the twelve  titles. So yes, I have been on a wee bit of a reading binge in the past week or so, which may also partially explain my lack of posting here.

Ever since I was a kid,  I have been drawn to series literature. I started with The Bobbsey Twins and moved onto the Hardy Boys and other series such as Chip Hilton and Bronc Burnett. The nice thing about a series is that you can usually trust things to work out at the end of the narrative. Then, the friends that you have made appear in the next volume, and you get to spend even more time with them. The other nice thing about catching a long series like this is that I can binge read. After I finish one novel, I can easily, and perhaps too easily, click to download the next episode.