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Power and Profit: The Merchant in Medieval Europe by Peter Spufford My rating: 5 of 5 stars

This is not to race through…there’s something to be learned on every page. From what was traded into and out of Europe to how it was transported and what it cost every step of . . . → Read More: Review: Power and Profit: The Merchant in Medieval Europe

Unlike every other place I've lived, late October and, especially, November have the just best, nicest weather we see in central Florida.  The humidity drops drastically and the temperature, less drastically.  I turn off the air conditioning and open the windows…for the first time since, maybe, April.  The air isn't exactly crisp and . . . → Read More: Just when you least expected it…a new Seeking North installment!

Unlike every other place I’ve lived, late October and, especially, November have the just best, nicest weather we see in central Florida.  The humidity drops drastically and the temperature, less drastically.  I turn off the air conditioning and open the windows…for the first time since, maybe, April.  The air isn’t exactly crisp and . . . → Read More: Just when you least expected it…a new Seeking North installment!

…Or why I call it the Face of Chaos

Monday I got a walking pneumonia diagnosis instead of my flu shot.

Tuesday, just when I was starting to get some productive work done on Seeking North my laptop let out an ominous screech.  In truth, this was not the first time it had . . . → Read More: Life is never dull…

…Or why I call it the Face of Chaos

Monday I got a walking pneumonia diagnosis instead of my flu shot.

Tuesday, just when I was starting to get some productive work done on Seeking North my laptop let out an ominous screech.  In truth, this was not the first time it had . . . → Read More: Life is never dull…

Since contracting Legionnaire's Disease in 1986, I've been devout about getting a flu shot.  I like to get them around Labor Day, but this year, between Dragon*Con and the EGA seminar, my injection schedule never came together.  But I had a regularly scheduled doctor's appointment this morning and planned to get one then . . . → Read More: Flu shot

Since contracting Legionnaire’s Disease in 1986, I’ve been devout about getting a flu shot.  I like to get them around Labor Day, but this year, between Dragon*Con and the EGA seminar, my injection schedule never came together.  But I had a regularly scheduled doctor’s appointment this morning and planned to get one then . . . → Read More: Flu shot

The Strange Affair of Spring Heeled Jack by Mark Hodder My rating: 2 of 5 stars

I really wanted to like this book. It's got all the ingredients I normally like to feast upon, but, in the end, it just didn't come together for me. Everything feels forced and cluttered with . . . → Read More: Review: The Strange Affair of Spring Heeled Jack

My knees sent me a message about a month ago.  They asked if I remembered seeing an x-ray of my right knee back in the 80s — the one that prompted the tech to say my cartilage was deficient and that I would be a candidate for a knee replacement sooner or later.  . . . → Read More: Weight-y Resolutions

I've had a beautiful birthday in Southwest Florida — the aftermath of the Embroiderers' Guild Seminar the preparations for which have filled so much of this past year.

Lois and I had high hopes of doing a dolphin watching cruise that made promises about its concern for research, ecology, and such, but its . . . → Read More: Sixty-three and counting…